4.4 The Advantages and Disadvantages of STAD Technique
4.4.1 The Advantages of STAD Technique
After conducting and implementing the STAD technique in the study, the writer concluded that the advantages of STAD technique are as follow:
1 The students became more active in class and team study.
2 The technique made the students develop critical thinking,
3 The technique is a cooperative learning where the students should
work in team, so it could improve the positive relation among the students.
4 The students were dominant in this phase.
5 The students appreciated each other, respected each other and it also
built the students’ self-esteem.
4.4.2 The Disadvantages of STAD Technique
After conducting and implementing the STAD technique in the study, the writer concluded that there were some disadvantages of STAD technique as
follow: 1
In the activity using STAD technique sometimes the students make a noise when they are in the team study.
2 The students are still unfamiliar with the technique.
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions
Based on the data interpretation and discussion in the previous chapter, the writer draws the following conclusions:
1 The students’ progress during the teaching and learning activity by using
cooperative learning called STAD technique was good. The students’ achievement in writing descriptive texts improved. It was supported by the
result of the research which shows significant improvement from the pre-test 56.26 to the post-test 74.35. So, the result of the students’ achievement
increased 18.09. 2
The STAD technique applied in teaching writing descriptive texts could be an effective method. It was very useful for the improvement of the students’ skill
in writing a descriptive text. The results show that the students’ progress during the treatment was good enough: 61.50 in first the cycle and
67.70 in the second cycle. Besides that, in the STAD teaching technique there are some processes: 1 the students are more dominant than the teacher
so they do not feel bored during the activity, 2 there is a problem-solving process, where the students with their groupteam are able to solve the
problem in their team by themselves, 3 there is take-and-give process by
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