THE EFFECT OF USING STUDENT TEAMS-ACHIVEMENT DIVISIONS (STAD) TECHNIQUE ON THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS’ TENSE MASTERY AT SMPN 1 KALIBARU

Abstract

Grammar, especially tenses, is one of the language components that should be mastered by the students to support the four language skills. It is essential because communicating with no grammatically correct will cause missunderstanding between the speaker and the listener, or between the writer and the reader. In order to help students in mastering the English tenses, the teachers should use an appropriate technique in the teaching learning process. One of the techniques that can be used by the teacher to help students in mastering English tenses is by using Student Teams-Achieveent Division (STAD) technique. In STAD students will be divided into teams and should compete with other teams to win. The team members which consisted of high achiever and low achiever students will begin to help each other in mastering tenses to get high point for the team. The improvement points make students be more motivated to master the English tenses so that they can get higher points than before. This research was an experimental research. The objective of the research was to know whether or not there was a significant effect of using STAD technique on the eighth grade students’ tense mastery at SMPN 1 Kalibaru. The area of this research was SMPN 1 Kalibaru. This school was purposively chosen because this school never applied STAD in teaching learning process. The population of the research was the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Kalibaru in the 2016/2017 academic year. The respondents of the research were chosen by using cluster random sampling. Since the results of the homogeneity test showed that the population was heterogeneous, the researcher chose the two classes that had the closest mean score as the experimental group and the control group. The total number of the respondents was 72 students which consisted of 36 students of class 8D as the experimental group that was taught tenses using STAD technique, and 36 students of class 8E as the control group that was taught tenses using discussion. The data of this research were collected from the students’ scores of tense test, interview, and documentation. The scores of the tense post test were used to know the students’ tense mastery. Then, the scores were analyzed by using t-test formula to find the difference between the experimental group and the control group. The result of the t-test analysis showed that the value of t0test was higher than the value of t-table (3.85 > 1.998). It showed that statistically there was a difference between the experimental group and the control group. It means that there was a significan effect of using Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) tehnique on the eighth grade students’ tense mastery at SMPN 1 Kalibaru in the 2016/2017 academic year