Subject and Setting of the Research

31 implementing the action, observing and reflecting what has been done during the action.

1. Planning Phase

In this phase, the writer and the collaborator made a plan based on the findings. The step of planning was done on the basis of the Jigsaw technique, the 2006 Standard of Content, and the students’ problems. The planning were focused on designing lesson plan, preparing the activities of Jigsaw technique, preparing materials and media, and determining criteria of success.

2. Acting Phase

The implementation of the action was focused on what has been proposed in the lesson plan. The researcher acted as a practitioner who carried out the Jigsaw technique in teaching of writing, while the collaborator acted as an observer who observed the students’ activities and participation during the teaching and learning process of writing using Jigsaw technique. The implementation of the action recovered three meetings in each cycle. The steps of the implementation of this strategy in every cycle were described as follows. Pre-activity; the teacher explained the activities that the students were supposed to do in the classroom. The students were asked to read and discuss the story in order to build and enrich their knowledge and language input such as vocabulary and sentence structure or the language feature of narrative texts. The students were arranged in groups of four for ―home group”. Then, they were reorganized into ―expert group”. Whilst-Activity; the main activities of this stage were 1 discussing and describing the events on the picture in the ―expert group”, the students were asked to use words showing actions or activities in the past 2 the students shared their part of story which they had learned to others in the ―home group” in order to get the complete story, and 3 writing the story individually; a composing a rough draft, b identifying topic sentence,