The students passed the KKM 75

text. Next, she moved to ask students’ opinion about the text and what the text mainly talking about. Then, she continued by explaining about the concept and characteristic of discussion text. She not only tells about the schematic structure of the text but also the language feature of discussion text and a little bit discussing about the text that students have read. In addition, after explaining clearly about discussion text, the students were assigning to teams. There are three teams that consisted of five students. In assigning students to team, the researcher balance the teams so that each team was composed of students whose performance level range from low to average to high, and the average performance level of all the teams in the class is about equal. The teams also should be checked for race, ethnicity and sex balance to make sure that teams were heterogenic. Here is the table of assigning students to team: Table 4.3 Assigning Students to Teams Level Students Name Rank Team Name High-Performing Students Sarah 1 Star Syarifah 2 Sky Afrian 3 Sun Huzaifi 4 Sun Average- Performing students Tri Holipah 5 Star Rizky Maulana 6 Sky Fania Rusmi 7 Star Rini Angraeni 8 Sky Latifah Fauziah 9 Sky Sabrina 10 Sun Students Qoriah 11 Sun Ahmad Syaifullah 12 Star Muhlis 13 Star Mufrodi 14 Sun Resa 15 Sky Based on the table 4.3, it could be identified, that there are four students who categorized as high-performing student, and six students who categorized as average-performing students, and the others was categorized as low-performing students. Each of them was divided into three teams: Star, Sky, and Sun. All of the team consisted of the different range level. After the researcher announced students’ team assignment, students have moved their desk together to make team tables. Then in the second meeting, she let the students study worksheet in their teams. During team study, the team members’ tasks are to master the material and to help their teammates master the material. In this meeting, students with high level performer become a leader in their team. Their important tasks were facilitating and making sure that all members in their own group understand the material that they had discussed well. In the last meeting of cycle 1, each student was given an individual quiz that they have to do individually. Students cannot work together on the quiz, at this point students must show what they have learned as individuals. Moreover, score in individual quiz will be calculated and compared by the pre-test in order to know students’ improvement of comprehending discussion text. c. Observing In this phase, all the occasions that happened during the action phase was observed. It included students’ response and class situation. Generally, the teaching and learning process had done in line with the lesson plan. The researcher delivered the material orderly based on the lesson plan, and the students followed the researcher direction. She noticed that there were some improvements in teaching and learning process. The students looked comfortable and enjoy during the learning process, they were acted actively and seriously engage doing their assignment in the team. However there were also some weaknesses that occurred during the action phase. That was when the researcher asked students to move their desk to make team tables. Since, it was the first time their experienced STAD Technique in their learning activities, so at the first they