The Use of Pmi (Plus, Minus, and Interesting) to Develop Students’ Critical Thinking Through Speaking Activities of the Seventh Grade at SMPN 1 Darul Ihsan Kabupaten Aceh Timur

Critical thinking is one of the important thing in argumentation. The students who does not have the critical thinking find difficulties in express their ideas, because they are difficult in finding the reason, especially in “like and dislike expression”. They know what are their likes and dislikes, but they are difficult to express why they like and dislike something in speaking. Therefore, the writer is interested to increase students’ critical thinking by using Plus Minus Interesting technique and to find out their responses during the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this research to know does PMI develop students’ critical thinking through of The Eight Grade at SMPN 1 Darul Ihsan Kabupaten Aceh Timur and to find out students’ responses toward teaching and learning English by using PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting). This researh was class room action research and the data are analyzed by descriptive analysis. The subject of this research was students level VII1 of SMPN 1 Darul Ihsan Kabupaten Aceh Timur. The writer found that PMI technique increased students’ critical thinking. In Pre-test result, the students have 52,91 of mean score. After the first cycle the score increased. They have 81,54 of mean score of the post-test. The inreasing from the pre-test was 28,63%. Besides that the development of students’ critical thinking could be seen by their activities during the discussion. They could express their ideas clearly by using PMI technique, although some of them used indonesian language