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E. Research Benefits
This research is conducted to bring benefits to the English teachers, other researchers and the readers. This research is expected to help the English teacher
to find out the results of the implementation of Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD to teach vocabulary to the VII C students of SMP Negeri 6
Yogyakarta. This researcher is expected to help the English teacher of SMP Negeri 6 Yogyakarta to find the suitable teaching method which could be used to
teach vocabulary to the students. This research is expected to help other researchers who are interested to talk about the similar topic. Thus, this research
could be used as a reference which could help other researches to develop their researches. This research is also expected to help the readers to enlarge the
readers’ understanding about the use of Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD to teach vocabulary to English as a Foreign Language EFL student.
F. Definition of Terms
1. Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD
In this research, the researcher uses Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD. Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD is one of Cooperative
Learning methods. The term Cooperative Learning is what Slavin 1995 states “it
refers to a variety of teaching methods in which students work in small groups to help one another learn academic content
” p.2. Student Teams-Achievement Divisions STAD method refers to a learning method which involves the students
to work with their friends. In groups containing 4-5 students with mixed in
7 gender, level of understanding the materials, and learning motivation. The
students are expected to help other friends in their groups to learn English, as Slavin 1995: 16 states that:
Cooperative goal structures create a situation in which the only way group members can attain their own personal goals is if the group is successful.
Therefore, to meet their personal goals, group members must help their groupmates to do whatever helps the group to succeed, and, perhaps more
important, encourage their groupmates to exert maximum efforts.
As stated above, in Cooperative Learning methods, the students should work in groups and they have to help each other in order to get good scores. In this
context, working together is considered as a social skill. Slavin 1995:16 explains that:
When the students work together toward a common goal, as they do when a cooperative reward structures is in place, their learning efforts help their group
mates succeed. Students therefore encourage one another’s learning, reinforce
one another’s academic efforts, and express norms favoring academic achievement.
The students’ interaction with their friends in group is considered as a social
skill. Larsen and Anderson 2011 state that social skills such as acknowledging another’s contribution, asking others to contribute, and keeping the conversation
calm need to be explicitly taught p.190. In addition to the experts’ statement
before, social skill should be taught in Cooperative Learning class.
2. Vocabulary Mastery
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