Using Two Stay Two Stray in Teaching Reading

 USING TWO STAY TWO STRAY (TSTS) IN TEACHING READING

By Nofia Rahmayani ( 11.321.138 )

Introduction

Reading is one of  four basic skills in English. In Educational Unit-Oriented Curriculum (Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (KTSP), the objectives of teaching reading are clearly stated. For Senior High School students, they are expected to be able to read and comprehend: description, narration, procedure, recount, news item, report, exposition, spoof, review and explanation (BSNP, 2006:18).

In order to get the purposes of reading, the method that used must match with the purpose. The method by choosing the teacher is so definitive to success the purpose of reading, so the student can develop their reading skill. But in fact in Senior High School, there are many students still difficult to get high score in English reading.

 This paper tries to share ideas about the strategies using Two Stay Two Stray in Teaching Reading for Senior High School. Therefore it covers the defintion of reading, indicators of reading, TSTS, procedure, and conclusion . 

A.    Definition of Reading

According to Bernhardt et.al. (2003:6), reading consists of two processes: word recognition and comprehension. Word recognition is process to perceive how written symbol correspond to one’s spoken language. Comprehension is process of making sense of word, sentences and connected text. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text. Grabe and Stoller (2002:4) state that reading can be taught as a way to draw information from the text and to form an interpretation of that information. The process of drawing information and interpreting information requires the work of the brain actively. According to Othman (2003:3) reading process is interaction  between text and reader’s imagination. Therefore, readers need three aspects: making prediction, thinking of the text that it is even of life and having similarity to the human life.

From the explaination from some resources, the writter can conclude that reading is comprehend the text to get information. Reading also can give us more knowledge like an idiom that “The book is the window of world”.

B.     Two Stay Two Stray

Two Stay Stray developed by Spencer Kagan (1992) . Structure TSTS is one type of cooperative learning. In this technique students will learn in group and it give opportunity the group to share result and information to the others group. Based on individual activity in teaching and learning the students do their task by themself and not allowed to cheat to the other students.

Figure of Two Stay Two Stray

 

C.    Characteristics of TSTS

The students work the task in the group and consist four students.The group consist of students that have high, middle, and low ability. If possible in the group is consist of different ras, gender, and culture. The reward is more dedication for the group than individual.

D.    The Purposes of TSTS

In this learning the students’ activity listen to their friends said when they visit the others group. The students must listen carefully what the host explain about the material. So, in this learning the students must visit dan listen carefully each other to do their task.

E.     Procedures of TSTS

There are some step in TSTS learning (Lie, 2002:60-61). The student must coorporation to do their task. After finish understand the material two students will leave their group to visit the group each other. Then two students stay in the group to share result and information from their material to the guests. The guests comeback to their group each other to report what they get from the other group. The group will match and discussion result of their task.

F.     Teaching Procedure

There are some proccedures using Two Stay Two Stray, those are :

1.      Preparing

Before teaching teachers must make silabus, mark system, learning design, and pepare the task for students. Then teacher make some group and in group consist four students. In each group must heterogen based on the grade academic and ethnic.

2.      The Teacher’s Presentation

The teacher will tell indicators of learning, introducing, and explaining materials based on the lesson plans that have been made.

3.      The Groups’ Activity

Each group will give papers that contain tasks and every student in group must learn that materials. After they received the tasks that contain problems there are relation with the materials and clarification, the students learn in the small group and discuss about the tasks togethere.each group will solve the problems by their way. Then two students of four students from each group will leave the group to visit the others group. And  two members stay in group they duty is share the result and information to the guests. After the guests get the information, they will came back to their group to report what they get from the others group and discuss about their material to finish it.

4.      Formality

After the group finish their tasks, one of four groups will presentation for discussing with the others group. The teacher only give add and direct them.

5.      The Groups’ Evaluation and Reward

The purpose of evalution to know stundents’ ability when they understand the materials by using Two Stay Two Stray cooperative learning. Each students will give question from learn result with TSTS, then continue by giving reward to the group who get the high score.

Conclusion

In this learning model with Two Stay Two Stray consciously or unconsciously, students will do an activity language to improve their comprehend skill. By implementing this cooperative learning model students will do more comprehend consciously. It mean that always just listen teacher, it can make students bored. While debriefing by one group to another to match the material what they got. That way, student can evaluate themeselve, how accurate their thought concept with the resource’s mindset. By implementing this cooperative learning, students will more active and it can build their spirit in the study.

References

Alhaz Harahap, Fitrah. Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through Two Stay-Two Stray Leaning model. http://jurnal.unimed.ac.id/index.php/jelt/article/view/373