Author (Penulis)

Arie Ristanto
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

10.1.01.08.0036

Abstract

Reading is a process of acquiring information or knowledge from a certain written text by involving brain emotion and belief. Concerning to the students’ difficulty to learn reading comprehension, in this case, STAD comes as the simplest method of cooperative learning method can be used to direct and motivate the students in order to they can support and help each other by assigning them in group of four or five members as a team in proceeding information in a text. Therefore, the purpose of conducting this research is to investigate the students’ reading comprehension before and after being taught using students teams achievement divisions (STAD) in hortatory exposition text, and to know the effectiveness of teaching reading comphrehension using STAD to 11th grade senior high school students of SMAN 1 Purwoasri. In holding this research, the researcher applied quantitative as research approach with one-group pretest-posttest as experimental design. The sample of this study was all the 23 students at the eleventh grade students of SMAN 1 Purwoasri in academic year 2014/2015. This research was held in four meetings involving pre-test, first treatment, second treatment, and post-test. The researcher used multiple-choice test as the instrument to collect the data. It can be categorized as interactive reading assessment, and the type of assessment task is impromptu reading plus comprehension question. To analyze the data, the researcher focused on using t-table. The stastitical data in the research result data showed that the mean of pre-test was 52.61, while the mean of post-test was 67.39, and t-score (5.132) > t-table 5% (2.074) or 1% (2.819). It can be concluded that the Null Hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the Alternative Hypothesis was accepted. Based on the data analysis during the research, The students of eleventh grade at SMAN 1 Purwoasri in academic year 2014/2015 before being taught using STAD technique has low ability in reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text. While the condition of students after being taught using STAD technique shows the improvement to their ability in reading comprehension of hortatory exposition text. The researcher also states that there is a very significant effect of teaching reading comphrehension using STAD technique. the researcher suggests that English teacher should use STAD as the appropriate technique to be applied in teaching writing recount text. For the other researchers are expected to be able to conduct a better research about STAD technique to find out its effectiveness in teaching other skills, other genres of text, and other level of education.

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Reference

PUBLISHED

2016-04-27

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

ISSUE

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