Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Reading is one of the important language skill should be mastered my the students. teacher sometime applied an inappropriate technique in order to improve students' performance and students themselves have lack of vocabulary. to overcome these problems, an approriate technique that can encourage and help students improve their vocabulary mastery that will help them in comprehend the reading text is needed. the writer suggest the teacher to apply an appropriate technique namely stao in order to solve the problems. the study found that using stad can also built the students' interest and motivation in teaching learning process. besides, the students can understand the text easily. the more students look forward to reading and anticipating in their mind what the passage could hold in store for them, the easier it will be to grasp the main points of the passage. this study is aimed to look at some given theories and/or research findings of applying the student team acheivment division (stad) in teaching reading comprehension. the discussion is focused on how the stad help students improve their reading performance. to find the data needed, the writer conducted a library research. based on the research findings and experts' statements, it is found that stao can help students comprehend the reading text well.