TEACHING ENGLISH USING STAD (STUDENT TEAM ACHIEVEMENT DIVISION) METHOD: ITS EFFECT ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 KAMPAR KIRI

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Based on researcher’s preliminary research, there were some problems
faced by students of eighth grade at State Junior High School 2 Kampar Kiri in
learning English especially in reading narrative text. The problems are some of
students have difficulties in identifying the main idea, detail information, generic
structure, communicative purpose, and reference. So, the researcher was interested
in carrying out the research about these problems by using STAD (Student Team
Achievement Division) method to improve students’ reading comprehension. The
purpose of this research was to determine whether there is influence in using
STAD (Student Team Achievement Division) on students’ reading
comprehension of narrative text. Type of this research was quasi experimental
design. In this research, the researcher used a pre-test and post-test to collect the
data. Then, the researcher used the formula of independent sample t-test by using
SPSS 23 for analyzing the data. After analyzing the data by using SPSS 23, the
researcher found that t-test was 4.107 and the significance was 0.000<0.05. It
means that Ho was rejected, while Ha was accepted. Meanwhile, to find how large
the magnitude effect of using STAD (Student Team Achievement Division)
method is, the researcher used eta squared (effect size) formula. The researcher
found eta squared was 0.307, it was categorized into large effect. In conclusion,
there is a significant effect of using STAD (Student Team Achievement Division)
method on students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade of State Junior
High School 2 Kampar Kiri.
Key words: STAD (Student Team Achievement Division) Method, Reading
Comprehension, Narrative Text

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