In teaching and learning, jigsaw is defined as classroom activity which requires students to connect several pieces of information from their classmates to
understand the material. In this activity, students are required to communicate with their friends and build good group work so they can understand the learning
materials well.
2. Concept of Technique
Etymologically, as stated in Oxford Advance Learners’ Dictionary of Current English technique means a method of doing something expertly.
Meanwhile, Webster II New Riverside University Dictionary defines technique as “the systematic procedure by which a complex or scientific task is accomplished”.
Before discussing further about the definition of technique, it is necessary to differentiate three terms in teaching and learning related with technique that
often confuse people. These three terms is approach, method, and technique. Edward Anthony identifies these three terms as different levels of
conceptualization and organization. It is further described by Richards and Rodgers, approach is the level at which assumptions and beliefs about language
and language learning are specified; method is the level at which theory is put into practice; technique is the level at which classroom procedures are described.
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Techniques must be consistent with a method, and therefore in harmony with an approach as well.
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It can be concluded that technique is implementation that takes place in the classroom, strategy that planned by the teacher to deliver the learning materials to
the students to achieve the learning objective. It can be said that technique is a way of doing classroom activities and procedures which derived from an
application of the principles. The technique itself should be based on the teacher’s assumption about language teaching and learning.
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Jack C. Richards, and Theodore S. Rodgers, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 15.
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Edward M. Anthony, Approach, Method and Technique, 3 April 2014, www.sala.org http:www.sala.org.brindex.phpartigos615-approach-method-and-technique
