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English Education Journal, 2014

Located in junior high school (SMP) 35 Semarang, this study applied STAD in giving solution to students’ problems in reading comprehension. Those problems were written in three statements: first, what the problems in reading comprehension faced by the eighth graders of SMP 35 Semarang were; second, how to implement this strategy in the practice of reading comprehension; and third, how STAD could improve the practice of reading comprehension to the eighth graders of junior high school. The method used in this study was qualitative. The data was gained through observing, giving questionnaire, and interviewing students. The major problem was the students had low achievement and motivation which was stimulated by the lack of having effective practice. Therefore, improving their practice was the way to solve the problems. Using STAD in the practices were done in three cycles covering materials’ arrangement and behavior improvement which stimulated better condition for studying. This cond...

Jurnal Serunai Bahasa Inggris

This research deals with the effect of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) as strategy to increase student competence in students’ reading comprehension. The objectives of this research was to find out if there was a significant effect of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) strategy to increase students competence in students’ reading comprehension. It was conducted by using experimental research. The population of this research was the third year students of SMP Swasta Hangtuah Stabat consists of two classes. Two classes were taken as the sample of this research, IX-1 and IX-2. The class of IX-1 was an experimental class and IX-2 was a control class. The number of sample was 62 students. The experimental class was taught by Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) as strategy, otherwise the control class was did not got treatment. The instrument for collecting the data was reading comprehension test. The calculation revealed that the hypothesis about significant differenc...

Journal of Academic Research and Sciences (JARES), 2018

Strategy plays the important role to make students understand reading materials. Teachers should be able to choose right teaching strategy in order to make the students interested more in learning beacause they enjoy learning and reading the given material. This study was conducted to find out whether the use of STAD in teaching of reading comprehension is effective to improve the student reading comprehension achievement. The design of the study was experimental reasearch. The study was conducted in Islamic University of Balitar. the researcher takes one class of the first semester students of english language education study program in the islamic university of balitar blitar in the academic year 2016/2017. and in analyzing the data, the researcher used the statistical procedures namely dependent T-test. The finding of this study is the score that students got after treatment increased. It means that the hypothesis alternative is accepted and the null hypothesis is rejected. By th...

JELLT (Journal of English Language and Language Teaching)

This research scrutinizes how Student Team Achievement Division facilitates and affects students in reading comprehension. A pre-experimental design was applied in this research, and it was conducted in six meetings; by giving pretest, four treatments, and posttest. It involved thirty six of the tenth grade students of secondary school at Lubuklinggau, South Sumatera, in Indonesia who attended reading comprehension class. The data were collected by using reading test that was given twice for students; pre-test and post-test were given before and after treatments. The finding of this research disclosed that the students’ average in pretest was 60.00 and in posttest their average score were increased to be 75.00. Based on the result of the paired t-test calculation, it was found that t-obtained 8.196 was higher than t-table 1.684 as the critical value. It meant that the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. In other words, the use of Student Team Achievement Division was signifi...

2016

The title of this paper is “The Use of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) in Improving Students’ Reading Skill”. This study is a descriptive study of seventh grade student at SMPN 11 Bandung academic year 2014-2015. The objective of this study is to investigate the use of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) in teaching reading to the VII.4 class of SMPN 11 Bandung. The teacher as researcher conduct this study three times of meeting, first day for pre-test, second day for treatment and last day for post-test. Some numerical data are described using descriptive analysis. The data are collected from observation and test. The teacher as researcher is observed by English teacher in order to know the procedure and assessment of researcher in teaching reading using Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) method. The findings in this study clearly found that the use of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) is significantly improves the students’ skills in reading. It can be s...

English Education, 2018

The objectives of this research are: (1) to know whether Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) can improve the students’ reading ability and (2) to describe what happens when STAD is implemented in teaching reading in the classroom.This study used a classroom action research design. The participants of this research were the students from one of Junior High Schools in Surakarta, Central Java. There were 32 students which consisted of14 males and 18 females. The techniques of collecting the data are using qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data consists of observation, interview, document analysis, questionnaire, photographs, and test. While the quantitative data was the students’ test score. The research findings show that the use of Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) can improve students’ reading ability and class condition. It can be seen from their interest and motivation for English class and the mean score of pre-test 57.50 which i...

2017

This research aimed to know the effectiveness of the use Student-Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) method in teaching reading of eight grade student of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta. Student-Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) method is a method that provides more opportunities for students to discuss to their group freely. STAD method also extends student’s reading comprehension through reading task with their group. This research was quasi experiment and technique of sampling used simple random sampling. The population of the research was students of VIII class in SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Yogyakarta academic year 2016/2017. There were 2 classes that used in this research i.e. VIII D as control class and VIII C as experiment class. The research instruments used observation sheet, test of reading comprehension and documentation. Normality test results showed that the data has normal distribution. The test results indicated that the homogeneity of the research was not homogeneous. Then, th...

Bilingual : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris

This thesis is about the implementation of Students Teams Achievement Division (STAD) technique in reading comprehension. The aim of the research is to solve the students’ problems in reading comprehension by implement STAD technique. The researcher used Slavin theory of process STAD technique in the classroom such as teaching materials, assigning students to teams, determining base score and team building. In this thesis, the problem of the study justified as “Is Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) technique appropriate to implement in Reading Comprehension at Grade Ten of SMK Negeri 1 Tebing Tinggi?” This thesis is descriptive quantitative study design, to describe the implementation of STAD technique in reading comprehension. The subject of this study was at grade ten students of SMA Negeri 1 Tebing Tinggi. X Adkl 2 which consist 39 students. The instrument of study ate test and questionnaire. To collect the data, the researcher implement STAD technique in the class throu...

2013

This study was an experimental research which aimed at identifying the effect of implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) and learning motivation toward students’ reading competence. This research used 2x2 factorial designs. The data collected through test and analyzed by using statistical Two-Way Anova and Tukey Test. The population was 4 classes (197 students) of grade VIII SMP Negeri 3 UBUD in academic year 2012/2013 in which 2 classes were chosen as the sample of the study. The chosen of two classes as a sample used intact Random Sampling. The results of the research were first, there was a significant different effect between the students taught by using STAD method and conventional method. Second, there was an effect of learning motivation toward student reading competence. Third, there was a significant interactional effect between implementation of student’s team achievement division (STAD) and Learning motivation toward students reading competence. Forth, ...

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research, 2017

Today learner-centered teaching is regarded as a sine qua non of optimal educational environments; therefore, many cooperative techniques are studied. This quantitative study reports the effect of Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) technique on improving Iranian elementary EFL learners’ reading comprehension. After administering YLE Flyers test to 51 male EFL young learners in elementary level at a well-known language institute in Tehran, Iran, they were divided into control and experimental groups. A pretest containing 50 questions was conducted to make sure their level of reading comprehension is similar. The treatment took 13 sessions of grouping students and assessing their reading skill according to the criteria of STAD technique, in the experimental group. The students' performance comparison in posttest through conducting an independent samples t-test, following a paired samples t-test on both tests revealed that the participants in the experimental group made sign...