The instructional Materials’ Roles

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. 55 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. 56 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.

D. The Previous Study

The first previous study is conducted by Firman entitled “Improving Students’ Reading Ability in Learning Narrative Text through Jigsaw Technique ” A Classroom Action Research in the Second Grade of SMP Al-Hidayah Lebak Bulus. The result of his study shows that the students are motivated and interested in participating actively in the group activity, because the students can teach others and learn from others. And he concluded that jigsaw technique can improve students reading comprehension achievement which also means that jigsaw can improve their reading ability. It can be seen from pretest and posttest. The average of pretest is 5.01 and the average of posttest is 7.62. 55 Nassanius, 2009, Loc. Cit. 56 Ibid, p. 226.