The effect of Partner Share Strategy to Students' Speaking Ability at Senior High School 2 Koto Baru Solok

Abstract

Partner share strategy is one of the cooperative learning strategies which develop both students’ social and higher level of cognitive skills.The strengths of this technique were used to solve students’ learning problem in EFL learning to speak at class X of Islamic Senior High Scholl 2 Koto Baru Solok. The result of the experiment showed that means score of experimental class in post-testwas 73.60 higher than the control class (66.97). It indicates that teaching speaking skill through Partner Share Strategy was successfully upgrade students social and cognitive competence in spoken English. Therefore, it is recommended that the English teacher should determine the use of partner share strategy in teaching speaking. Other researchers were also suggested to carry out further studies to deal with the issues particularly in the level of Senior High School.