THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STAD TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Abstract

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk  mengetahui apakah terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan pada kemampuan berbicara siswa setelah  belajar dengan metode STAD.  Penelitian ini melibatkan 24 siswa kelas X SMK YADIKA NATAR sebagai subjek penelitian. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah  one group pretest posttest design.  Data diambil melalui pretest, treatment dan posttest dan dianalisis dengan menggunakan t-test.  Hasil pengujian menunjukan bahwa terdapat peningkatan yang signifikan.  Peningkatan nilai rata-rata  kemampuan berbicara siswa adalah sebesar 20 poin, dari 60.3 pada pre-test menjadi 80.3 pada post-test. Hasil perhitungan menunjukan p<0.05, p=,000.  Ini membuktikan bahwa  perlakuan yang diberikan oleh guru dapat meningkatkan kemampuan berbicara siswa secara signifikan.

The aim of this research was to know whether there is a significant increase of students’ speaking ability score after being taught through Student team Achievement Division (STAD) teaching technique. The subject of this research were 24 students of first grade senior high school. The research was conducted through one group pre-test and post-test design. The data were collected through pre-test, treatment and post-test and analyzed by using repeated T-Test to examine the significant increase of students’ speaking ability. The result of the test showed that the increase was a significant. The increase were 20 points, from 60.3 in pre-test and 80.3 in post-test. The computation showed that the result was p<0.05, p=,000. The value indicates that the numbers represents the significance. It provided that the treatments given by the researcher had increased the student’ speaking ability significantly.

Keywords: productive skill, receptive skill, speaking skill