{"title":"Improving Students’ Achievement In Descriptive Text Through the Application (STAD) Student Team Achievement Division","authors":"Sahat Tua Manalu","doi":"10.52622/jcar.v1i1.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/jcar.v1i1.55","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims at improving students’ descriptive paragraph writing through STAD(Student Team Achievement Division) technique. In this study the writer conducted classroom action research. The subject of the research was 40 students of grade X SMA Negeri 1 PEGAJAHAN. Districts of Pegajahan Serdang Bedagai. There are four parallel classes that consist 40 students each class. The instruments for collecting data were writing test for quantitative data, qualitative data and questionnaire sheet,. The instrument for collecting the quantitative data was writing test while the qualitative data were gathered through the interview, diary notes and observation sheet. The qualitative data showed that the students were not interested in descriptive text. Based on the students’ scores of class x-1 taken by the English teacher for twice, it was gained that only 40% and 42% of students achieve .The minimum Completeness Criteria in writing. More than 50% of students are not able to get it.It means the ability of students is low. In this school students must achieve 70 in order to get in English subject. After having been analysed , the result of the study denotes that the students’ achievement constantly improved significantly. In conclusion, the application of Student Team Achievement Division technique can improve the students’ achievement in writing descriptive text.\u0000Keywords: Classroom Action Research Descriptive. STAD (Student Teams Achievement Division)","PeriodicalId":364379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classroom Action Research","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125239284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension on Persuasive Text Through Storytelling","authors":"Desi Koko Adelina Simatupang","doi":"10.52622/jcar.v1i1.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/jcar.v1i1.51","url":null,"abstract":"This research deals with the improving students’ reading comprehension achievement on persuasive text through storytelling. This research is aimed to find out the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension achievement on persuasive text if teaching by applying storytelling. The design of the research is conducted by using action research method. It was done through planning, action, observation, and reflection. The subject of this research is the 2013/2014 students of the Grade XI of SMA Swa Bina Karya Medan. This research applies quantitative and qualitative method. Quantitative data are taken from the students' reading comprehension test. Qualitative data are taken from diary notes, interview, and observation. The result of the research shows that there is improvement of students’ reading comprehension on persuasive text through storytelling.\u0000Keywords : Improving,Reading Comprehension,Persuasive Text,Storytelling","PeriodicalId":364379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classroom Action Research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121413638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Students’ Vocabulary Achievement through Anagram","authors":"Rina Herawati Barus, Jonris Tampubolon","doi":"10.52622/jcar.v1i1.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52622/jcar.v1i1.50","url":null,"abstract":"This study is aimed at improving the students’ vocabulary achievement through anagram. This study was conducted by using classroom action research. The subject of this study was the 2009/2010 ten grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Pancur Batu which consisted of 30 students. For collecting data, the instrument used quantitative data (vocabulary test) and qualitative data (diary notes, interview sheet and observation sheet). Based on the data, it was found that the students’ score increased from the pre test until the post test of the first and the second cycle. In the pre test, the mean of the students was (54,93), in the post test of the first cycle was (68) and the mean of the students of the second cycle was (82,46). The students’ score also increased from pre test to post test cycle I until post test cycle II. It was found that teaching vocabulary through anagram can improve the students’ vocabulary achievement. It is concluded that teaching vocabulary through anagram is significantly effective in teaching vocabulary.\u0000Keywords: Classroom Action Research, Vocabulary Achievement, Anagram","PeriodicalId":364379,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Classroom Action Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125981634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}