The Jigsaw Technique Cooperative Learning

30 The first step is pre-elimenary study, the teacher opens the class by greeting the students and asking how they are doing. After that, the teacher emphasizes on the students that they are going to learn verbs of vocabulary, specifically learning regular and irregular verbs for the next four meetings. Before learning the verbs, the teacher applies a fun activity which is called “Word Puzzles”. Word puzzles is one of the activity that the teacher can do when the teacher want to implement jigsaw technique in the classroom. 52 In this case, the teacher gives the clue cards to every student and each of the students has different clue cards, thus the students in the group have to share their clue cards in order to finish the word puzzle. The second activity is core study. The teacher applies the jigsaw technique and then the teacher divides the students into some groups. Each of the groups must consist of 5-6 students. In this case, the teacher has already designed the material before he teaches in the classroom. After that, the teacher gives the students a text because one of very effective way in introducing a new vocabulary is through listening or giving a student to read a text. 53 Thus, the teacher gives their students a text in order to find out the vocabulary verbs in the text. When the students get the text, the teacher asks the students to read the text and the students have to find out and underlined the verbs in the text. In home group, the first student will only find out the verbs in paragraph one, the second student will only find out the verbs in paragraph two, and the third students will only find out the verbs in paragraph three and etc. After that, the teacher asks the student to make an expert team. The first student will meet the others first student, the second student will meet the others second students, and etc. When they are in the expert group, the students do the task together and they can share with the expert group. After the students do and discuss the tasks, they may come back to the home group and then they have to share what they got from the expert group. In the last activity, the teacher will appoint out some students to be an explainer then the teacher gives a task and they have to do the task individually. 52 Kessler ed, op. cit., p. 139. 53 Roger Gower. et al., Teaching Practice: A Handbook for Teachers in Training, Thailand: MacMillan Education, 2005, p. 147. 31 The others teaching plans about verbs will be explained by the writer in the lesson plan in the appendix.

D. Thinking Framework

As it has been mentioned before, many students in junior high school have the same problems in learning the new vocabulary of verbs like regular and irregular verbs. Memorizing and understanding the new vocabulary of verbs are the main problems which were faced by the second year students of junior high school. In this case, the students still did not recognize the verbs which are regular and the verbs which are irregular verbs, the students also found unfamiliar verbs in the text or in the sentence and they did not know the meaning of the words itself. Another problem is they could not change the verbs into the past verbs. It can be said that the students have limit vocabulary. The students often get bored when they did not find the meaning of the certain verbs, because the teacher did not use any special technique in learning vocabulary, thus they tend to ask their teacher in order to know the meaning of the verbs rather than finding out the verbs by learning together with the other students. The teachers must find out some solutions to make their students feel easy in understanding and memorizing the new verbs. The teachers should provide the new technique in teaching where the students can build the interaction and learn together with the other students, so that the students did not always rely on their teacher ‟s help. Using cooperative learning is one of the alternative solutions that the teacher can use to help their students in understanding the verbs. Cooperative learning helps the learner to work in group and share their idea. It is also help the teacher to pay attention and notice their students‟ ability when their students worked in groups. Using cooperative learning is more effective than using conventional method; because cooperative learning can make the positive interaction among the students thus it c an increase students‟ motivation in understanding the verbs. There are some variations of technique in cooperative learning; hence the writer only chooses the jigsaw technique as the most priority technique that will