The Advantage and Disadvantage of STAD

The second research is from Iffah Salimah with the title of her research is The Effectiveness of Learning Reading through Collaborative Learning. The similarity of this research is to know the effectiveness of collaborative learning on students’ reading ability. The researches have the same objective that is to describe the eff ectiveness of Cooperative learning on students’ reading comprehension. Also the same background that is found there were many students who had low achievement of reading. Not only that, the technique that used in the research is also similar that is small group. The differences are research design that is pre-elementary study. She only took one class as the experimental class. She compared the pre text and post test from the class. She took the experiment in the senior high school. The result shows that the improvement of students’ achievement in learning reading before and after using collaborative learning is significant enough. The last research is from Eka Nurazizah with the title of the research is The Effectiveness of Teaching Reading through Collaborative Learning Activities. The similarity of this research if the using of small group discussion and also the reading ability that is explored. The research design is also similar that is the experimental study. She took two classes, the experiment and controlled class, in her research. Also she took place the research at junior high school same as the wr iter’s research. The difference of the research is the technique that is used. Eka Nurazizah used Think Pair Share technique on teaching reading. And also the text, descriptive text, that is learned in the experiment. The result of her research shows that teaching reading through collaborative learning is more effective. Those are the previous studies that are presented in this paper. Those studies have both similarity and differences with the writer’s research. That is why the writer presents the previous study which is to know the similarity and the differences.

E. Thinking Framework

Reading is considered as the skill that has to be learned firstly before the other skills. It is because in the actual life, the students may find the actual reading materials such as a newspaper, letters, booklets, leaflets, advertisements, labels, magazines, the telephone directory, the social media facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. and so on. On the cases of school subject, a written text is being used as a vehicle for the introduction of new vocabulary and structures. However, reading is a complex activity which requires vocabulary competence, expectation and interest in reading. The limitation of having vocabulary is really influenced in learning it. Most students argue that reading is very difficult and they frustrated because they did not know enough vocabulary, to know enough vocabulary they need dictionary all the time and it would make their reading go slowly. When the teacher gave the example how to read accurately, they were not paying attention because the class was too large. To manage large class group work is important, because can manage student’s participation. Therefore, the writer comes into initiative Cooperative Learning could be a good approach to teach reading and to improve reading comprehension. STAD is one technique of Cooperative Learning that could be implied in the reading class to make students more attractive and comprehensive. STAD could be in line with the actual environment and have to be implied in the classroom. Students not only could learning together with their friend to solve the problem and also could practice them on facing the world. It is one of the important aspect of Cooperative Learning that is to promote behavior and better group relations among students. STAD could be used on teaching reading comprehension. It is because STAD provide students to help each other and share the information in the heterogeneous group. Students who have difficulty to comprehend the text would helped by the students who comprehend the text. STAD provides students who have different abilities to stay together reaching the goal of reading that is comprehending the text. In other words, STAD is effective on students’ reading comprehension.