USING THINK PAIR SHARE (TPS) TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' WRITING CREATIVITY (A Classroom Action Research in the Second Semester Students of STKIP Siliwangi Bandung)
The research was conducted in the second semester students at STKIP Siliwangi. The campus is located at Jl.Terusan Jenderal Sudirman no.3, Baros Cimahi Tengah, West Java. Writing skill is important, it does not get enough attention and proper time allocation in the teaching and learning process. One technique that can be used in teaching writing is TPS. Long term goal of this research is to produce learning theory that can applied without changing the lecturer's role, but can optimize the student's creativity. Specific target to be achieved in this research is to prove TPS method to improve the student's writing creativity. Output required of this research as a scientific publication in local journal that have ISSN. The researchers identify some problems, such as: 1) Does teaching writing using TPS improve the students' writing creativity? 2) How is the teaching and learning situation when TPS implemented in the writing class? The design of this research is Classroom Action Research (CAR) From the result of pre test, we found that the result of students' writing was under average and still far from what was expected. The finding was supported by the result of students' writing scores. The average score of pre test was 56.09. After the implementation of TPS activities in every cycle, the students' writing score were getting better. It can be seen from the result of students' average score Cycle 1 was 65,80 and Cycle 2 was 80,25. It can be concluded that TPS can improve students' writing creativity and TPS can improve writing classroom into a better situation.