The Effect of STAD on Students' Writing Recount Text

Abstract

This research aimed to know the effect of student team achievement division (STAD) teaching method to the ability of Eight grade students in writing recount text at SMP Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar. This research design is quantitative research which the population was all of students at eighth grade students in SMP Negeri 1 Pematangsiantar in the academic year 2016/2017. The sample of this research is gotten by using random clustering sampling. The total sample in this research is 60 students which is divided into two class, namely experimental class and control class. The instrument of collecting data was the written test form. After the treatment was done, the writer found that t-test is higher than t-table. The writer concluded that STAD teaching method could develop the students' ability in writing recount text.