Think-pair-share strategy and the speaking skill

Abstract

Speaking skill is one of the hardest skills to improve for most people, due to shyness, fear of making mistakes, or just feeling lost on what to use for the sentence, or how to say it. For this, teachers find different strategies to help the students’ needs so that they can improve or develop excellently way in this area. For this reason, the use of the Think-Pair-Share strategy has been applied in this research based on question 3 of the PET exam to state the influence between the Think-Pair-Share strategy and the speaking skill in the third semester "A" of Pedagogía de Los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros program at the Universidad Técnica de Ambato to help the students to work collaboratively and let them improve the speaking skill by the user of it. The research design used in this project are the quasi-experimental research where a pre-test and post-test were applied to highlight the difference before applying the strategy and after using it, a survey was also used which helps to know the students’ needs. The results show that the strategy had a positive impact on their speaking skills, building self-confidence, and interacting actively during the activities. Finally, it was possible to determine that the Think-Pair-Share strategy had a positive influence and allowed verbal and linguistic enrichment in terms of speech development and language learning.