Advantages of Jigsaw Technique

22 poor students are that they need to catch up which may cause tension because others are pulled back or delayed. b. The problem may be dominated by smart students. Not everyone has an equal voice in a group. One person may dominate the group while others feel left out. Some students do not trust the abilities of others in the group which results tension and refusal to cooperate. c. The problem of bright students becoming bored. It usually happens to the bright students in jigsaw situation. They become impatient, bored, or resentful of the slower students. Moreover, because their minds are so quick, the bright students tend to be among the most easily bored if the activities are moving too slowly for them. d. The last problem of the jigsaw classroom is noisy. The students are scattered around the room. Everybody is talking at the same time. A non-jigsaw teacher might be thought that the jigsaw teacher must be an undisciplined person, unskilled, and ineffective for overcoming such as how students learn in such noisy atmosphere. All the problems above do occur in implementing the Jigsaw technique if the jigsaw teacher who is not creative enough to tackle and handle the problems. There are several tactics a teacher can do to solve the problems. For example, the teacher involves the students in the expert group. This is one of the strategies for helping the poor readers and the bright students. In this way, poorer students are helped by their peers who have the same topic. Meanwhile the bright students eliminate their boredom by teaching others. By developing the mindset of a teacher, the bright students can turn into exciting challenge otherwise slower students are faced experience by this activity for solving problem. In addition, to reduce the noisy class, the jigsaw teacher should maximally acts as a facilitator, moves around the class, from Jigsaw group to Jigsaw group, listening, observing, and keeping alert for many problems arise. 23

D. Teaching Narrative Text by Using Jigsaw Technique

Before involving students in jigsaw technique, first of all the teachers introduce the concept of jigsaw technique together with the benefits students get. Then, the teachers explain to the students that jigsaw technique would be helpful to develop their writing ability of a story. Then explain the basic rules in applying jigsaw technique in writing narrative text. Next, explain that narrative texts, as one of the text types learned through four stages, starts from the building knowledge of the field on the characteristics of narrative text followed by the model of narrative texts with its features. The following is steps in teaching narrative text using jigsaw technique: 1. Distribute the story to the students as reading text to build the students’ knowledge of the story and language input in vocabulary, grammatical usage, and the generic structure of narrative text. 2. Ask everyone to read the story and pay attention to vocabulary and sentence structure or language feature of narrative text in the story. 3. Ask students some questions to ensure that the students have understood about the story and generic structure of narrative text. 4. Prepare different several copies as many copies as there are groups of the picture sequence to stimulate and help students describe the events. The picture sequence should be cut into a specific picture of sequence for distribution to individual students. 5. Put students into groups of six to seven. The diagram below shows the arrangement of the group.