THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEAM PAIR SOLO STRATEGY IN INCREASING THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN WRITING TEXT

Abstract

The research deals with the implementation of team pair solo strategt in increasing the students’ ability in writing text. The objectives of study are to find out: 1. The students’ ability in writing text before and after implementation of Team Pair Solo Strategy, 2. The students’ ability in writing text can be increased by implementing Team Pair Solo Strategy. This research was conducted by implementing two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. By implementing two cycles can observe the increasing of the students’ ability. The subject of this study is one class of the eleventh students (XI – 1 IPS) of SMA Swasta YPIS Maju Binjai consists of 35 students.The data of this study were a sentence in writing analytical exposition text. The data were collected through test. The finding of this study revealed thatnthe students’ ability in writing text before implementing the strategy was still low, there was not students who got score point up 65 (English passing grade). After implementing the strategy the students’ ability was increased from the first cycle to the second cycle. Even, the second cycle is higher than the first cycle. And by implementing Team Pair Solo Strategy can increase significantly the students’ ability in writing text especially analytical exposition text.