The Language Features of Narrative Text
same aspect, and after mastering the material, return to the home group and teach the material to their group members. With this strategy, each student in the
home group serves as a piece of the topics puzzle and when they work together as a whole, they create the complete jigsaw puzzle.
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Jigsaw is a teaching technique use in small group instruction. Student of a normal sized class 26 to 33 students are divided into competency group of four
to six students, each of which is given a list of sub topic to research. Individual members of each
group then break off to work with the “expert” from other group, researching a part of the material being studied, after which they return to their
starting body in the role of instructor for their subcategory ”.
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Jigsaw was developed and tested by Elliot Aronson and his colleagues. Using jigsaw, students are assigned to five or six member heteregenous study
teams. Academic materials are presented to the students in text form, and each student is responsible for learning portion of the material. For example, if the
textual material was on cooperative learning, one student on the team would be responsible for STAD, another for jigsaw, another for group investigation, and
perhaps the other two would become experts in the research base and history of cooperative learning. Members from different teams with the same topic
sometimes called the expert group meet to study and help each other learn the topic. Then students return to their home teams and teach other members what
they have learned. Following home team meetings and discussions, students take quizzes individually on the learning materials.
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Jigsaw technique differents with traditional team work. In jigsaw technique, each member of the group has unique information heliping to promote
equal status that they must share with group matters in order to the group to achieve its common goal. In traditional team work, the students not master a
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different learning assignment. The students are given the same information. It causes some students not contribute their ideas and rely on a person.
The Jigsaw technique is an efficient way to learn the course material in a cooperative learning style. The jigsaw process encourages reading, engagement,
and empathy by giving each member of the group an essential part to play in the academic activity. Group members must work together as a team to accomplish a
common goal; each person depends on all the others. No student can succeed completely unless everyone works well together as a team. This cooperation by
design facilitates interaction among all students in the class, leading them to value each other as contributors to their common task.