@thesis{thesis,
		author={Fatimah  Dewi},
		title ={The Ability of Writing Procedure Text of the Seventh Grade Students of SMP 2 Gebog Kudus in the Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Think Pair Share.},
		year={2012},
		url={http://eprints.umk.ac.id/1094/},
		abstract={The effect of English as lingua franca is that English is carried out in education. It is prioritized on four skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Writing becomes important when mass communication media mostly are in form of writing. Talking about writing means we talk about genre. There are many kinds of genre that students should know but the most familiar one is procedure text. The mastery of this genre becomes important since it is quietly related to their daily life. There are many techniques to teach students writing, such as Think Pair Share. It is a technique which is in area of cooperative learning model.
The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference of the ability of writing procedure text of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Gebog Kudus in the academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using Think Pair Share.
This research is in the area of quantitative experimental research. The writer used one group pretest-posttest experiment. The number of sample is 36 students. She used test in form of essay test as the instrument to gather the data of the students’ ability in writing procedure text before and after being taught by using Think Pair Share.
The result of the experiment shows that the calculation of t-test, with the level of significance 0.05, degree of freedom (df) 35, t-table (tt) 2.05, and t-observation (to) 6.99. In other words, t-observation is higher than t-table (to>tt). In detail, the mean of the students’ ability of writing procedure text before being taught by using Think Pair Share is 65.9 and it is categorized as “low”. Then, after being taught by using Think Pair Share, the mean of the students’ ability of writing procedure text is 76.44 and it is categorized as “good”. Therefore, the Null Hypothesis (H0) that states there is no significant difference between the writing procedure text ability of the seventh grade students of SMP 2 Gebog Kudus before and after being taught by using Think Pair Share is denied.
Thus, a teacher should be creative to use a various technique in English teaching moreover in teaching writing. In choosing the technique, the teacher should pay attention to the material will be given. It is also hoped that there will be further research to improve the students’ ability of writing procedure text.
}
		}