THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING METHOD TYPE STAD TOWARD STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF NARRATIVE TEXT AT EIGHT GRADE STUDENT OF SMP N 12 SIJUNJUNG

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research was to find out the effectiveness of cooperative learning method type STAD toward students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. The design of the research was quasi experimental research. The total number of the members of population was 98 students and the number of sample was 44 students consisting of 22 students as experimental group and 22 students as control group. The treatment was done for eight meetings. In collecting the data, the researcher used reading test and questionnaire. Before giving the post-test, the test was tried out to the students out of the sample. The reliability of the test was 0.83 and it was categorized very high. The post-test and questionnaire was given after doing teaching process for eight times. The data were analyzed by using t-_test. The result of the analysis showed that t-calculated was 5,6. The value of t-table was 2,02 at the level of significance .05 and degree of freedom 42. It means that the value of t-calculated was higher than the value of t-table. Therefore, the research stating that there is a positive significant effect of using cooperative learning method type STAD toward students’ reading comprehension of narrative text at SMP N 12 Sijunjung was accepted. The researcher concluded that the use of STAD method in reading gave a positive significant effect toward students’ reading comprehension of narrative text. Relating this conclusion, the researcher suggested that the English teacher might consider to use STAD method as an alternative technique in teaching reading.

Key words: Cooperative learning method type STAD, Reading comprehension, narrative text