| dc.description.abstract | According to the result of preliminary study in the form of interview with the
English teacher of SMP Negeri 2 Sukowono Jember, it was found that the students of
class VIII-B had difficulties in comprehending reading texts because they lack of
vocabularies and also interest in reading comprehension. It is because the English
teacher never used any new technique or approach when teaching reading to the
students. Besides, the students also lack of participation in the classroom during the
teaching and learning reading comprehension. The researchers tried to overcome the
problem by applying STAD Technique. Student Team Achievement Division
(STAD) is a model of cooperative learning technique developed by Robert Slavin
(1986) which is referred to as student team learning techniques. This technique
assigns the students to four or five members as a heterogeneous group involving high,
average and low achieving students of diverse genders and ethnic background. It
involves question and answer activity among the students. So, the students can be
participated well during the teaching and learning process.
The design of this research was classroom action research with cycle model.
The subjects of this research were class VIII-B of SMP Negeri 2 Sukowono Jember
that consists of 39 students, in the second semester 2009/2010 academic year. The
research target was 75% students got score at least 71 and 75% students actively
involved in the teaching and learning reading comprehension through STAD
Technique. The actions in cycle covered 1) planning of the action, 2) implementation
of the action, 3) observation and evaluation, and 4) analysis and reflection. | en_US |
