IMPROVE STUDENTS' VOCABULARY COMPREHENSION THROUGH STUDENT TEAMS ACHIEVEMENT DIVISIONS METHOD IN CLASS VII D SMPN 29 SEMARANG

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine: (1) whether the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) cooperative learning approach may improve students' vocabulary comprehension; and (2) how students respond when studying using the STAD method. This study is a classroom action research. This study involved students of SMP N 29 Semarang class VII D for the 2022/2023 academic year. This study was divided into two cycles, each of which included stages of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Data collection strategies used in each cycle included test results from the pretest and post-test as quantitative data and students’ questionnaires as qualitative data. According to the findings of this study, students' vocabulary comprehension improves after using the STAD learning method. This can be seen from the test results of students. The pretest results show a score of 69.5 on average. Meanwhile, the average cycle 1 post-test score was 78, and the average cycle 2 posttest score was 88. The pretest findings showed that only 10 students, or 32.2%, reached the minimum criterion, while in the post-test cycle 1 there were 20 or 78% of students who succeeded in achieving the minimum criterion and 28 students or 90.3% in the post-test cycle 2 who reached the minimum criterion. The results of the questionnaire data indicate that students responded positively to learning by implementing the STAD approach.