1. Cooperative learning allows students to become dominant in the discussion. Here, it will be hard for the lower achiever to compete with the dominant
students. 2. Teachers must make sure that students with poor study skills to be active.
3. Jigsaw gives the lower achiever chance to enhance their ability by imitating the higher achiever’ performance in organizing and presenting their report.
4. Since many students, unfortunately, are not used to tasks where they are responsible for their own learning and making their own connections, they may
react negatively or become frustrated the first time or two the teachers use this.
From the statements above, jigsaw also has its weaknesses. However, to minimize the weaknesses, the teacher should manage and limit the time for each
session of Jigsaw see Lesson Plan 1 and 2 in Appendix F and G. Furthermore, the teacher should give a chance for each student to speak, thus each student in groups
will be involved in discussion.
2.7 Students’ Participation
Students’ participation in this research is the students’ activeness in the teaching learning process. They are willing to follow and to involve themselves in all
activities in the classroom. It can be seen from their activities including discussing to select five unfamiliar words and the main idea of a paragraph in the expert group,
finding the meaning of the words in Quiz 1 in the expert group, sharing the information they have got from the expert groups to their home groups, finding the
answer of the specific and general information of Quiz 2 in the home group, reviewing the content of the material by playing Jeopardy game. The students are
considered as active students if they fulfil at least three indicators.
2.8 Steps of Teaching Reading Using Jigsaw IV Technique in the Classroom
Teaching reading by implementing Jigsaw IV technique is possible to be done in class, since Jigsaw can be used to teach all language skills, especially reading. Lie
2002:68 suggests that Jigsaw can be used to teach listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Besides, the use of Jigsaw in teaching reading gives some benefits to the
students, such as comprehend detail information by doing some activities in the expert groups and work cooperatively with other members. Here, the researcher will
follow the steps of teaching reading using Jigsaw IV technique from Holliday. The steps are as follows:
1. Giving the introduction. 2. Dividing the students into groups called home groups.
3. Giving a single paragraph and a sheet to each student in each group. 4. Grouping the students who get the same paragraph and sheet to make new
groups called expert groups. 5. Asking the experts groups to discuss the paragraph and answer the expert
questions. 6. Giving the first quiz to the expert groups to check for accuracy and
understanding. 7. Asking the students of expert groups to go back to their home teams and share
the information they got from experts groups. 8. Giving the second quiz to the home teams to check for accuracy and
understanding. 9. Reviewing the materials by playing game of Jeopardy.
10. Giving an individual assessment for all students. 11. Re-teaching any material missed on assessment as needed.
2.9 Jeopardy Game
