The Learners’ Roles The Role in Jigsaw Technique
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.