Author (Penulis)

IKA FATMA AMRIANI
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0092

Abstract

ABSTRACT IKA FATMA AMRIANI, “ A Study on Teaching Reading Comprehension Recount Text Using Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) Technique to the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 8 Kediri in Academic Year 2014/2015”, Skripsi, English Department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Nusantara PGRI Kediri University, August 2015. Key words : Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Recount Text, STAD In learning English, students should master language skills which are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. According to Gavin and Susan, reading is one of language skills that influences the students’ comprehension ability because the students will be able to understand a text, know the meaning of the words, and update their information by reading activity. The students are expected to have good comprehension in reading texts, one of the text should be learnt by the students is recount text. Based on the syllabus, recount text is one of materials for the eighth grade students. The problem is the students still find difficulties in understanding recount text. That is why the teacher should use a suitable technique to present materials, the technique is Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD). It is a simple technique that can brought into the classroom. The research design used in this research is descriptive qualitative. This research has one variable that is Teaching Reading Comprehension Recount Text Using STAD and the subject of this research was the teacher who taught the eighth grade students of SMPN 8 Kediri. The instruments are observation checklist that is done during the teaching learning process, interview to the teacher, and questionnaire for the students. It aims to know how to teach reading recount text using STAD, how the students’ response duringthe teaching learning process of reading recount text using STAD, and to know the advantages and disadvantages of STAD in teaching reading recount text. The result of the research shows that STAD is effective to improve the student’s reading recount text comprehension . It can be seen from the observation that the low achieving students are helped by high achieving students in discussing. So, some low achieving students become active in teaching learning process and quizzes. During discussion stage, each group also seemed work together to solve the problem. From the interview with the teacher, the researcher knew that the students are able to undestand the recount text fast after they learnt reading recount text using STAD. It means that STAD technique is useful and it helps the students in order to facilitate them in learning reading comprehension.

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PUBLISHED

2016-02-22

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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