Teaching Speaking Using Jigsaw Technique
our students. The first problem is because they should have enough knowledge about grammar, vocabulary, etc to get the information in English communication.
The second problem is English still to be a foreign language in Indonesia and it make the intensity of using English in the people is not too much. Because of that,
it is really hard to teach speaking English and it needs correct strategy to reach the goal of English speaking learning.
The problem in speaking learning above is appropriate with the purpose of Jigsaw Technique. Jigsaw is one of the cooperative learning strategies,
cooperative learning guide the learners to be cooperative to each other. In the implementation of Jigsaw technique, it requires the high interaction and active
communication among students in the class. It is needed to reach the goal of learning in students. The purpose of this jigsaw technique is to make the students
in the class can be active to express their ideas by discussing, and presenting on group, With the strategy which is created for high interaction and communicaton,
it must be a solution for increasing speaking skill in students. Those explanations seemed to be the reason why the writer wanted to conduct this research. The
writer believes that speaking is such a compulsory skill to be mastered and the underlying problem stated above is that the students have low facility in and
outside the classroom to expand their speaking skill. The teachers need the appropriate method and techniqu
e which encourage students’ speaking ability. Jigsaw technique with high interaction in the implementation hope can fulfill the
interaction needs in speaking English learning.