| dc.description.abstract | This research was conducted to describe the eighth grade students‟ reading
comprehension achievement taught by using STAD Technique at SMPN 3 Jember in
the 2013/2014 academic year. The research problem of this research was “How was
the eighth grade students‟ reading comprehension achievement taught by using
STAD technique at SMP Negeri 3 Jember?”
There were six classes of the eighth grade in the school. It consisted of class
8A, 8B, 8C, 8D, 8E, and 8F. There were only 4 classes of the eighth grade which
have been taught by using STAD technique. The total population of those four classes
is 120 students. In this research, the research respondents were determined by using
cluster random sampling with lottery because each class has different schedule of
English lesson. Thus, it was better and easier for the researcher to take two classes
with lottery among class 8A, 8B, 8C, and 8D randomly. The primary data of this
research were collected from the students‟ reading comprehension test while the
supporting data were collected by using interview, observation, and documentation.
From the data analysis result, it was found that there were only 2 students or
6.6% of the eighth grade students were categorized as poor and there was no student
(0%) who was classified as very poor category in their reading comprehension
achievement. There were 6 students (20%) who got “excellent” category. There were
19 students (63.3%) got “good” category and there were 3 students (10%) who got
“fair” category In other words, there were 93.3% of the students had category from
fair to good and excellent in their reading comprehension achievement. It means that
the students‟ reading comprehension achievement taught by using STAD technique
was good or excellent.
In addition, the highest achievement and the lowest achievement of the
students‟ reading comprehension achievement taught by using STAD technique were
as follows. The highest reading comprehension score was 100. It was gotten by the
student‟s number twenty four. That case might be caused of her attention on the
English lesson. She joined the English lesson very enthusiastically and carefully. She
was also not doubt to ask the English teacher if she had a problem in understanding
the teacher‟s instruction. That information was gotten from the result of the
observation. She did students observation indicators completely.
On the other side, the lowest reading comprehension score was 56. It was
gotten by the student‟s number five and eight. That case might be caused of their lack
attention on the English lesson. During observation, it was shown that they also
looked passive in discussing the text in group. It might be caused of the lack of
students‟ cooperation in their groups.
According to the statistical computation, the mean score of the class 8C
students reading comprehension test was 81.33. It was higher than the standard
minimum score of SMP Negeri 3 Jember while the standard minimum score of SMP
Negeri 3 Jember is 81.
In other words, it was showed that most of the eighth grade students at SMP
Negeri 3 Jember had enough ability in reading comprehension after being taught by
using STAD technique because most of the students had achieved good scores in
reading comprehension.
Based on the result above, it could be concluded that STAD Technique can
give a positive contribution in developing students‟ reading comprehension
achievement, especially for the eighth grade students at SMP Negeri 3 Jember. | en_US |
