Abstract Name : Lutfia Hanum Student No. : 0906102050004 Study Program : English Education Title : The Use of STAD Technique in Improving Reading Comprehension Keywords: STAD, Reading, Teacher’s stance. This study was conducted at SMPN 12 Banda Aceh. The purpose was to find out whether the implementation of STAD technique by the English teacher of the school in teaching reading was based on the procedures by Shaban and Ghaith (2005) and to figure out the teacher’s stance on the use of STAD. Descriptive qualitative was used in this study and the subject was an English teacher. Moreover, the instruments used in this study were observation sheet and interview questions. Based on the observation, i t was found that the teacher did not implement one procedure of STAD as suggested by Shaaban and Ghaith (2005) and five procedures with few modifications. The procedure which was not implemented by the teacher was assigns a role for each member of the groups and the five procedures with few modifications were related to quiz gave to the students; providing printed answer key; ways to correct the student’s quiz; provide team recognition form; and ways to recognize the achievement of the students. They were not implemented and were modified due to the situation and context of the teaching environment. Furthermore, the teacher’s stance on the use of STAD were because it gave opportunities for the students to be more active, motivated, and help each other in group work.