The Implementation of Student Teams–Achievement Divisions (Stad) Technique to Enhance Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

This classroom action research was conducted at MTs Muncar. It was intended to help the students improve their reading comprehension achievement of descriptive text and their participation. Based on the interview with the English teacher of the eighth grade students of MTs Muncar combined with analyzed the students’ previous English score and observation in the classroom, it was known that the VIII-1 grade students had difficulties in reading comprehension. They had difficulties in comprehending a text, lack of vocabularies, and less motivation in teaching and learning process especially in reading comprehension. Therefore, the researcher tried to help the students solved the problems by implementing Student Teams–Achievement Divisions (STAD) Technique as a technique in teaching reading comprehension. Observation checklist and reading comprehension test were used by the researcher to collect the data. Thus, the data were analyzed to know the result of the students’ reading comprehension achievement and their participation after conducting the research. There were two cycles in this research. In each cycle consisted of two meetings and a test. In the first cycle, there was improvement of the students’ participation. There were 13 (65%) active students of 20 students in the teaching learning process in the first meeting. And there were 15 (75%) active students in the teaching learning process in the second meeting. The average score of the students’ participation in the first cycle was 70%. It showed that the students’ participation in the teaching learning process of reading comprehension through STAD technique met the target. Besides, the result of the students’ reading comprehension test in the first cycle showed that there were 13 (65%) students of 20 students who achieved the minimum score. It could be concluded that the result of the students’ reading comprehension test in the first cycle did not achieved the target research, that was 70% of the students got score at least 70. So, the actions continued to the second cycle. The result of the observation in the second cycle showed that the average percentage of the observation improved from the first cycle, that was 85% students were categorized as active students. In addition, there was improvement of the average of the students’ reading comprehension test. There were 16 (80%) students of 20 students got score at least 70. It could be concluded that the second cycle had met the criteria of success of this research. The research finding above showed that STAD technique could improve the VIII-1 grade students’ of MTs Muncar reading comprehension achievement and their participation. By considering the research finding, it is expected that the English teacher use STAD technique as a technique in teaching and learning process especially in teaching reading comprehension. The result of this research is also suggested as reference to the future researcher who wants to conduct a research dealing with the implementation of STAD technique in different English skill, different level student, or different research design