An Experimental Study of the Effects of Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) on Vocabulary Learning of EFL Adult Learners

• Main Authors: Ishtiaq, Muhammad, Zuraina, Ali, Salem, Muhammad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AWEJ.org 2017
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18729/1/26.%20Ishtiaq.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/18729/; https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/vol8no3.23

Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) has been considered as an important cooperative learning strategy in progressive pedagogy. A number of studies have supported the use of STAD in different subject areas and in different socio-cultural contexts. However, it is still an under researched area in countries like Saudi Arabia where English is taught as a Foreign Language. This quasi-experimental study was conducted in Unaizah Community College, Saudi Arabia. Both the experimental group and the control group were tested on 2000-word vocabulary test. A vocabulary test was prepared and administered by the researchers at the beginning of the experiment as a pre-test. The experimental group was taught with Student Teams Achievement Divisions (STAD) strategy whereas the control group was taught with traditional whole-class instruction method. The treatment was carried out for two weeks. At the end of the experiment, the same vocabulary test was re-administered as a post-test. Independent samples t-test was used to analyze the data using SPSS 21. Results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group in favor of the experimental group (p=0.002 < 0.05).