The effect of using think- ?air- share technique on efl students’ ahievement in the course of general english

Abstract EN

Think Pair Share is a cooperative learning technique which involves the learners in three steps task.

During the first one individuals think silently about a question or a task posed by the instructor.

In the second step, individuals pair up and exchange thoughts.

In the last one the pairs share their responses with the whole class.

This research is an attempt to investigate the effect of Think Pair Share on EFL students' achievement in the course of General English .

To fitlfill the aim of the research ء a null hypothesis has been adopted which indicates that there is no statistically significant difference between students' achievement who practice Think Pair Share and that of the students who do not practice it.

A whole course experiment was conducted using control group, posttest design only.

By implementing the t-test for two independent samples to analyze the data, it was found out that there is a statistical significant difference between the two groups in their ^hievement in favour of the experimental group because the calculated t value is 2.863 which is greater than the tabulated t value (1.684) at 0.05 level .

The results indicated that the experimental group, who has practiced Think Pair Share was better in ^lrievement than the control group, who has not practiced it .

So, the null hypothesis is rejected.

Finally, some recommendations and suggestions are put forward in the light of the study findings.