ABSTRACT
Nadrotin
Mawaddah, 2011, Improving Students’ skill in writing recount text through
Students Team Achievement Division (STAD at the Grade 8 Oof SMP Sunan Ampel
Sumberjo 2011-2012 Academic Year,
Faculty of Education And Art, English Department, University of Ronggolawe
Tuban, Concultant: Drs. Sumardiyanto, M.Pd.
In the second
year of Junior High School, one of the Basic Competencies in English subject is
“to express meaning and generic structures in
simple short essay using written language that is accurate, fluent and
acceptable to interact with the circumstances in recount genre”(Depdiknas,
2006). Recount is a genre
of text that has function to retell past events. In writing recount text, the
students have to use the correct lexical grammatical features and the generic
structures.
In the daily
evaluation of writing recount text, only 45% students can achieve the score 65.
Whereas the classical achievement criteria is at least 80 % students have to
achieve KKM (≥65). It means that the teaching process is not successful and has
to be improved.
In SMP Sunan
Ampel, the method that is usually used to teach writing recount text is writing
individually. The students still make wrong in choosing the right diction and
using the correct grammar. The teacher does not have enough time to explain the
correction result of their tasks one by one. At the next teaching-learning
process, the students still make the same wrong in writing recount text. Besides,
for many students, writing is difficult enough because they have to develop
their ideas into sentences and paragraphs based on the generic structures of the
text. Those are the reasons why the teaching process is not success.
Because of
the reason above, the writer proposes a solution in form of Student Team
Achievement Division (STAD) method, one of cooperative learning methods in
which students are assigned to four-member learning teams that are mixed in
performance level, gender, and ethnicity (Slavin, 1994). Then, the writer determined a research
entitled “Improving Students’ Skill in Writing Recount Text through Student
Teams Achievement Division (STAD) at the grade 8 of SMP Sunan Ampel Sumberejo
Banyuputih Situbondo 2011-2012 Academic Year”.
This research is a classroom action research that was
conducted in two cycles. In every cycle, the procedure are planning,
implementing action, observing and reflecting. The data collection method
consists of documentation, observation and a writing test. The data analysis
method for the qualitative data was inductive, and for the quantitative data
was percentage. The
achievement indicator of this research is according to the classroom
achievement criteria that at least 80 % students achieved score ≥65. All of
stages in this research had been done for
5 months starting at 12th July to 27th November, 2011.
Based
on the results of the action in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2, it could be concluded that
the use of Student Team Achievement Division (STAD) method can improve the
students’ ability in writing recount text in the grade 8 SMP Sunan Ampel
2011-2012 academic year. It could be proved from the results of writing test
which pointed out that the students’ score increased in the cycle 1 and the
cycle 2 (74% and 82%) and had fulfilled the achievement indicator of this classroom
action research.