'Faculty of Agriculture, Sebelas Maret University'
Abstract
The objectives of the research are (1) to describe how jigsaw improves the students’ reading comprehension at the eighth grade of SMP Islam Diponegoro Surakarta and (2) to describe how jigsaw can improve class situation. In the pre research, the students had difficulties in identifying main idea, identifying supporting detail, guessing meaning of new words, and identifying communicative purpose of text, identifying cohesive device, and identifying reference. Because of those indicators, the researcher applied jigsaw technique. The research finding shows that jigsaw could overcome the students’ difficulties in reading comprehension; they could identify main idea, identify supporting details, guess meaning of new words, identify communicative purpose of text, identify cohesive device, and identify reference. The improvement could be seen from the mean score of posttest 1 (60.37) and it increased to 73.08 in posttest 2. Besides solving the students’ difficulties, jigsaw improved the class situation. Before conducting jigsaw technique in teaching process, the students’ motivation was low and after the implementation of jigsaw, their motivation improved. Based on the preobservation, most of students were passive. After taught jigsaw technique, the students became more active and interactive during the teaching learning process. There was improvement in the students’ attitude. Finally, it can be concluded that jigsaw can improve the students’ reading comprehension and improve the class situation.
