This thesis presented the results of teaching reading of narrative text by using of Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method at the eleventh grade of MA Darul Ulum Semarang in the Academic Year of 2015/2016. The primary purpose of this research was to know the influence of Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method in reading comprehension on narrative text. The research questions was How is the influence of students’ reading comprehension achievement on narrative text after being taught by using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method?. The research objective was to find out the influence of students’ reading comprehension achievement on narrative text after being taught by using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method.
In taking the sample, the researcher used bored sampling technique. Which means that technique determining sample if all members of population are used as sample. Class XI Science 1 was chosen as experimental class who were taught reading comprehension on narrative text using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method and class XI Social as control class who were taught reading comprehension without using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method. The instrument used to collect the data was multiple choise test.
The technique to analyze the data was t-test formula. It was used to determine whether there was or there was not a significant difference between the average score of the experimental and the control class. The average of post- test of experimental class was 70.64 which were higher than the average of post test of the control class 65.96. Based on the calculation result of t-test was obtained tcount(1,594) was higher than the ttable(1,162). Since the tcountwas higher than ttable, the hypothesis is accepted. It means that there was a significant difference in reading comprehension improvement between students who are taught reading narrative text by using Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method and those who are taught by lecturing (without Student Team Achievement Divisions (STAD) method).