While-Activity Procedure of Teaching Vocabulary Using STAD
Nur’aeni from Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta had conducted a classrom action research in 2011. Her research was intended to find
empirical evidence of students reading ability development by using STAD. The data was collected from 36 second year of junior high school students. The results
of this research are the students were more active and interested in learning reading activity in the classroom and there was 12.15 improvement of students’
average score of reading after using STAD.
Furthermore, several studies report that STAD is the most successful cooperative learning technique for increasing student academic achievement Van Wyk, 2007;
Nichols and Miller, 1998; Dat Tran, 2008, and Nur’aeni, 2011. Therefore, the researcher proposes this research to investigate whether STAD can increase
students’ vocabulary achievement or not. This research is never been done before and will be completely different with preview.