Abstract:
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Student-Team Achievement Division (STAD) is one of the certain strategies to solve the problem above. STAD is one of the cooperative learning approaches that makes the students understand about how to improve students speaking ability well. STAD a based on the idea of having students work in cooperative learning teams to learn academic objectives. STAD has been described as the simplest of a group of cooperative learning techniques referred to as Students Team Learning Methods. In Student Team Learning, the student tasks are not to do something as a team. But to learn something as a team, where the team’s work is not done until all team members have mastered the material being studied.
This research was intended to know whether STAD technique can improve the speaking ability of the second year students of SMP Negeri 1 Salo Kabupaten Kampar. The researcher was helped by a collaborator and used observation sheets and field notes as the instruments of the research. Besides, she also used speaking test to see the improvement of students’ speaking skill on each cycle.
At the beginning of cycle 1 or before treatment was given, the average score of the students’ speaking ability was 52.5. At the end of cycle 1 or after the students getting treatment the students speaking ability was improved to 66. The researcher gave the score to the students independently. The components of speaking ability were improved by the students after the treatment was given. The components of speaking which evaluated as follows: (1) pronunciation, (2) grammar, (3) vocabulary, (4) fluency, and (5) comprehension.
Based on the findings, it was concluded that the use of STAD technique can better improve the level of speaking ability of the second year students of SMP Negeri 1 Salo Kabupaten Kampar.
