work places responsibility for action and progress on each member of the group somewhat equally. As group members, they must work
together as a team to accomplish a common goal. As active participants in the learning process, students would be less dependent
on the teacher and be more autonomous.
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And the disadvantages of jigsaw are: First: some students may be very resistant to this strategy.
Second: some shy students will be very uncomfortable at first while others prefer to work alone. It is true that many students, especially
adult-age students, prefer to work alone because that is the way they have learned ever since they started going to school. It is important to
help the students see that language is for communicating with people and working in a group would be beneficial for them.
Third, non-motivated students may not take their responsibility seriously.
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To sum up, the writer thinks that jigsaw is actually an interesting method that appropriate to be used in learning English especially in
learning reading, because it can build a good cooperation among students when they are learning, it also can make the students explore their
knowledge by sharing it to their friends. But in the other hand, this method is not good enough for unmotivated students because they will not
seriously join the learning process.
D. The Previous Study
The first previous study is conducted by Firman entitled “Improving Students’
Reading Ability in Learning Narrative Text through Jigsaw Technique ” A
Classroom Action Research in the Second Grade of SMP Al-Hidayah Lebak Bulus. The result of his study shows that the students are motivated and
interested in participating actively in the group activity, because the students can teach others and learn from others. And he concluded that jigsaw technique can
improve students reading comprehension achievement which also means that jigsaw can improve their reading ability. It can be seen from pretest and posttest.
The average of pretest is 5.01 and the average of posttest is 7.62.
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Nassanius, 2009, Loc. Cit.
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Ibid, p. 226.
The second previous study is conducted by Lailatul entitled “Improving
Students’ Reading Comprehension through Jigsaw Technique” A Classroom Action Research at the Eight Grade Students of SMPI Al-Syukro Universal
Ciputat. She concluded that jigsaw technique is effective to improve the students reading comprehe
nsion of descriptive text. It can be proven from the students’ score. Also, it can improve students’ participation in group or class. There was
some progressiveness of students’ score from pretest 18.18 students passed the
KKM to posttest 81.81 of students passed the KKM. The third previous study is conducted by Galuh entitled
“Improving Students’ Mastering Simple Past Tense through Cooperative Learning of Students Team
Achievement Division STAD Type ” A Classroom Action Research at Second
Grade Students of SMPN 3 Tangerang Selatan. He concluded that teaching simple past tense through cooperative learning of STAD type gave positive effect
to students’ achievement. It can be seen from the data analysis which showed that students’ test score increased from cycle one to cycle two. Using STAD type in
the classroom also gave positive effect in learning environment because it can improve students’ activities in the classroom and motivation in learning English
increased.
E. The Hypothesis of the Action
Hypothesis of the action is provisional answer to the problem faced. It is an alternative action viewed by the writer as the appropriate one used in action
research to solve the problem faced by the teacher and students. The hypothesis is that jigsaw technique can improve students reading comprehension of narrative
text on the second grade student of SMP Ash-Sholihin Kebon Jeruk.
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. The Place and Time of the Research
This research spent nine months started from Mei up to June 2012. The place was at grade VIII of SMP Ash-Sholihin Kebon Jeruk 20112012
Academic Year.
B. The Method of the Research
The method used in this study is Classroom Action Research CAR. The central idea of the action part of CAR is to intervene in a deliberate way
in the problematic situation in order to bring about changes and, even better, improvements in practice. Action research is portrayed as a cyclical or spiral
process involving steps of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. These four phases must be done by the writer to get the result of the research.
C. The Subject and the Object of the Research
1. The Subject of the Research
The subjects of the study were students at grade VIII of SMP Ash- Sholihin Kebon Jeruk 20112012 Academic Year. The number of students
consists of 32 students.
2. The Object of the Research
The objects of this study were first, the jigsaw technique to improve students’ reading comprehension in terms of narrative text. The
second wa s the result of students’ achievement in learning reading of
narrative text at the class VIII of SMP Ash-Sholihin Kebon Jeruk.
