Lestari, Endang Ayu (2015) The Use of Student Team Achievement Division Technique to Increase Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability at The Eleventh Graders of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo East Lampung. Undergraduate thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Metro.

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Abstract

Reading is one of four basic language skills that should be mastered by the students. By reading, the students get much knowledge, information, and all they need in the learning process. Moreover, students often ignored to mastering this skill. This condition which was researcher found at the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo where many students had difficulties in English learning especially in reading comprehension, so it caused their result of learning was low. Hence, to increase the students’ reading comprehension ability, the researcher used STAD technique in learning process. STAD is one of technique that effective and easy to be applied in the teaching and learning process. The purpose of this research was to know whether the use of STAD technique can increase the students’ reading comprehension ability in English learning.

The kind of this research was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. Object of this research was the students’reading comprehension. In collecting the data, the researcher used test, observation, and documentation. This research was conducted with an English teacher of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo that was Mr. Ery Hadiyanto, S. Pd.

The result of this research showed that STAD had positive role in increasing the reading comprehension ability at the eleventh graders of SMAN 1 Purbolinggo. It can be proved by the students’average score from pre test to post test. The average score in pre test was 62.27 and in post test was 68.64 became 76.81. It means that the using of STAD technique in reading especially report text can increase the students’ reading comprehension ability.

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