Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension through Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) Technique

Rani Tri Aprella, Patuan Raja, Ari Nurweni

Abstract


Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menetahui apakah ada peningkatan prestasi belajar membaca siswa yang signifikan setelah penerapan teknik  STAD. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung. Soal pretest dan posttest membaca diberikan untuk mengumpulkan data. Satu kelompok pre-test post-test digunakan sebagai desain penelitian. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan pada pencapaian  pemahaman membaca siswa setelah penerapan teknik STADdengan tingkat signifikansi (0,00) lebih kecil dari alpha (0,00 <0,05). Oleh karena itu, peneliti merekomendasikan Teknik STAD untuk diterapkan sebagai teknik dalam pengajaran membaca.


Abstract. This research was aimed at finding out whether there was a significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension achievement after the implementation of STAD technique. This research was conducted at SMAN 5 Bandar Lampung. The reading pretest and post test were administered to collect the data. One group pre-test post-test was used as the design of the research. The results of this research showed that there was a satisfying significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension achievement after the implementation of STAD technique with the significant level (0.00) smaller than the alpha (0.00<0.05). Therefore, the researcher recommends STAD Technique to be applied as a technique in teaching reading.

Keywords: STAD technique, reading comprehension, aspect of reading.


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