Abstract
This research is a classroom action research. It is aimed to describe how Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) improves the students’ engagement in reading comprehension activities. The problems found in this research were the ninth grade students of MTs Negeri 4 Sambas were low engaged in reading comprehension activities. This research was conducted in class B. The procedure of the research consisted of planning, enacting, observing, and reflecting. In this study, the researcher was the teacher of the research subject who implemented STAD in teaching reading comprehension. The data were in form of quantitative and qualitative data. The tools of data collection were observation checklist, field note, ad questionnaire. The quantitative data were collected from the observation checklist, and questionnaire. The quantitative data were analyzed by statistic formula. The qualitative data were analyzed by using a method stated by Best and Kahn (2006). From the result of the research, the researcher found that STAD can improve the students’ engagement in reading class. They were enthusiastic to participate in class presentation and discussion. During the learning process, they were active to learn better such as trying to understand the reading texts by asking questions and sharing their knowledge and ideas to other students.
Highlights
There are three steps; data organization, description, and interpretation. This part presents the result of the research in cycle 1, cycle 2, cycle 3 including the students’ engagement from checklist, questionnaire, test, and field note
Based on the result of this study, it can be concluded that the implementation of Student Teams-Achievement Division (STAD) is very effective and can improve the students’ engagement in the classroom especially in reading comprehension activity
It is started by paying attention to the class presentation to build their first knowledge
Summary
Reading has an important role in an academic setting. Readers will obtain knowledge through written text. The role of reading is important in education, especially in language learning. Reading will be more beneficial if the readers find messages and information from the text. This means comprehension is the step in reading activities. A reader has a transaction with written text by interpreting the text influenced by the reader’s experiences, background, knowledge, or the intention of reading 11) defines reading comprehension as the process of getting transaction and constructing meaning in written language Snow (2002, p. 11) defines reading comprehension as the process of getting transaction and constructing meaning in written language
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