The Effectiveness Using Jigsaw Method in Teaching Reading on Narrative Text of The Second Grade Students of Muhammadiyah Senior High School of Gombong in The Academic Year of 2011/2012

Abstract

English is used as the first foreign language and compulsory subject to be taught, so the students are expected to master English. As the students of Senior High School, reading is not strange thing anymore. If the teacher could take the good teaching reading method, it would be helping the students to understand the material of reading in very effective way. One instructional strategy that keeps students engaged and active in a lesson is introducing cooperative learning using jigsaw method. The objective of this research is to find out whether jigsaw method is effective or not in improving students’ reading ability to comprehend narrative text. In order to know the effectiveness the researcher compares to the result of teaching using jigsaw Method to the result of teaching by using common method. The study is called experimental research. The population of this research is the second grade students of Muhammadiyah Senior High School of Gombong in the academic year of 2011/2012. Population of this research is 111 students from five classes. Sample of this research is two classes which are divided into experimental group (XI IPA 2, 22 students) and control group (XI IPA 1, 24 students). The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The test consists of 30 items. Those are 25 test of multiple choice and 5 test of statement true or false reading in the last part of pre-test and those are only multiple choices reading tests in post-test. The test was conducted on 21th and 22nd May 2012 for pre-test and on 28th and 29th May 2012 for post-test. Statistically, the researcher analyzed the data by using t-test sample related. The result of this study shows that there is positive and significant effectiveness of teaching reading through jigsaw Method on the students’ reading comprehension ability (Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted), since it was found that the result of t-value is 5.039, the degree freedom (df) 44 and the level significance of t-test table is 5%. It shows 2.021. It is proven by the result of the t-test sample related that the t-value is higher than t-table (5.039>2.021). The research findings indicate that the jigsaw Method is effective in teaching reading of narrative text. It is suggested that English teachers use jigsaw Method as the one of cooperative method in teaching reading in the classroom. The students who are taught by using jigsaw Method will get better ability rather than students who have been taught using common method.