The Implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (Stad) Technique in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension has become an important skill for students to avoid from irrelevant information. Reading comprehension usually relates to reading material. In order to improve students’ reading comprehension, the writer prefered to use STAD as the technique. Therefore, this thesis entitled “The Implementation of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) Technique in Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension”. The aim of this research is to find out whether Student Team Achievement Divisions technique effective to improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension. The sample of this research is the second year students of SMA Kartika XIV-1 Banda Aceh in the academic year 2015/2016. To obtain the data, there are two techniques used during doing research; experimental teaching including test and questionnaire. The result of the implementation showed that after the researcher had conducted the actions, the students’ reading comprehension improved as shown in the result on the students activities during the actions and their pre-test and post-test mean scores. Through the reading comprehension test, the mean score of the pre-test was 61 and the mean score of post-test was 76. STAD can improve the students’ reading comprehension. The improvement can be identified from students’ reading comprehension achievement in term of main idea, detail information, references, inference and vocabulary. Based on the result above, it could be concluded that STAD technique really improved the students’ achievement in reading comprehension and their motivation in reading comprehension.