U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 2, No 10 (2013): U-JET

THE USE OF JIGSAW TECHNIQUE IN IMPROVING STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN READING

Desi Setianingrum (Lampung University)
Muhammad Sukirlan (Unknown)
Sudirman Sudirman (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2013

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah jigsaw dapat meningkatkan kemampuan siswa dalam membaca pemahaman. Populasi dalam penelitian ini  adalah siswa kelas satu SMK Negeri Katon yang terdiri dari empat kelas. Dua kelas telah diambil secara acak sebagai penelitian dan uji-coba. Peneliti menggunakan desain pre-test dan post-test. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa t-rasio (5.684) lebih tinggi daripada ttable 2.369. Hal inimenunjukan bahwa H1 diterima.Skor rata-rata pre-test adalah 51.69 dan post-test adalah 66.63.Skor peningkatan adalah 14.94 point. Ini membuktikan bahwa skor siswa meningkat secara signifikan karena p0.05 (p=0.000). Berdasarkan data, dapat disimpilkan bahwa ada peningkatan dari pemahaman membaca siswa melalui teknik jigsaw. Berdasarkan hasil kuesioner, terdapat 76% siswa yang memberikan respon positif terhadap jigsaw.The objectives of this research are to find out whether using jigsaw technique can increase students’ ability in mastering reading comprehension and to see the respond of the student toward jigsaw technique. The population of this research is the first year students of SMK N 1 Negrikaton consisting of four classes.Two classes were taken randomly as the experimental and try out class. The research was one group pre-test post-test design. The result of the this research shows that, tratio 5.864 was higher than ttable 2.0369. It means that H1 is accepted. The mean score of pre-test was 51.69 and post-test was 66.63 and the increase was 14.94. It proved that the students’ score increase significantly because p0.05 (p=0.000). It can be concluded that there is  an improvement in students’reading achievement through jigsaw tecnique. Based on the questionnaire there were 76% of students who give positive respond toward jigsaw.Keywords: jigsaw, reading comprehension, recount text.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...