The Effect of think pair share strategy on enhancing students' coherence in writing paragraphs
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2016
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university of Oum El Bouaghi
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Because writing is very significant in students' academic achievement, it makes a very debatable topic in second/ foreign language researches. One of the approaches that has proved to be effective in enhancing students' writing quality is the cooperative learning approach. On this light, this research study intended to find out if "Think-Pair-Share" as a cooperative learning technique has a significant effect on enhancing students' writing paragraphs in terms of coherence. To give consistency to this study, an experimental design was conducted for the sake of examining the cause- effect relationship between the two variables. Accordingly, to reach the aims of this research, third-year pupils at Maanser Ounis Secondary School "Ain Kercha" were chosen to be the subjects of this investigation. Two groups from the literary stream were assigned randomly as an experimental and a control groups. Before giving the treatment, both groups were pre-tested to see their actual level in writing paragraphs in terms of coherence. Then, the experimental group received the treatment, as reflected in the implementation of think-pair-share strategy. As the final step, both groups were post-tested in the same way they were pre-tested. The obtained results showed that pupils who are subjected to think-pair-share strategy scored a statistically significant improvement in terms of coherence in writing paragraphs when compared to those who were not. Finally, this research study led to the conclusion that think-pair-share technique is effective on enhancing students' coherence in writing paragraphs. In other words, the research hypothesis which states that think-pair-share strategy would enhance students' writing paragraphs in terms of coherence is confirmed in favor of the null hypothesis. Eventually, it is recommended to adopt "Think-Pair-Share" technique in second/ foreign language classrooms to teach the writing skill.
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Teaching : english : EFL : writing