IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH IN PAIRS TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST SEMESTER OF MIDWIFE PROGRAM IN STIKES BHAKTI HUSADA MULIA MADIUN

Abstract

The objective of the research was to improve the students’ speaking skills through Think Pair technique at the first semester of midwife program in STIKES Bhakti Husada Mulia Madiun academic year 2022-2023. subjects of this research were 32 first semester students in Midwife Program. The research was applied in two cycles following the procedures for action research, namely planning, action, observing, and reflecting. The researchers used classroom observation, document analysis, pre-test, and post-test to collect data. It was found that students had difficulties expressing their ideas in english orally, had limited vocabulary in english .The findings show that the Work in Pairs method improves students’ speaking skills in class. This can be seen from the improvement of students' speaking skills in each cycle. The students achieved 56.56 for the pre-test which is categorized poor. After implementing Work in Pairs activities in two cycles the students’ average scores improved. The post-test was 67.54 in the first cycle and 76,74 in the second cycle. This proves that students responded positively to the Work in Pairs method. It can be concluded that working in pairs activities have a strong influence on improving students’ speaking skills.