Electronic Theses and Dissertation

The objective of this study is to look at some given theories and/or research findings on the use of cooperative learning for teaching speaking skill. Speaking is very essential skill for foreign language students as it becomes the standard of English mastery (Richards, 2008). However, most of the students still find some barriers in improving their ability in speaking such as being afraid of making mistake during oral activities, students hardly construct the words into oral language, students rarely have opportunity to speak outside the classroom, and teacher mostly stressed on rule/ grammar . These cases, however, can be solved through the implementation of Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) technique (Slavin, 1995). The method used in this study is library research. Readings obtained from various sources are processed and described in descriptive way. The study found that using STAD can facilitate the students to exchange their ideas and/or information in a useful manner (Slavin, 1994; Zhang, 2010). Besides, each student has equal opportunity to speak or practice the language (Bell, 2011; Harmer, 1994). Further, the proper application of STAD technique by the teacher possibly exert the quality of student's speaking ability.

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