| dc.description.abstract | Reading is one of the language skills which is important to be mastered by
the students because by reading the students can enrich their knowledge. In
reading, students are expected to understand not only the reading text but also the
idea of the reading text. This means that the teacher should apply the appropriate
technique in the reading class to help them get the message or the information
from the text. Therefore, jigsaw I was used in this research..
This research was conducted to investigate the effect of cooperative
learning: jigsaw I technique on the year VIII students’ reading comprehension
achievement at SMPN 1 Balung Jember in the 2011/2012 academic year. The
population of this research was grade VIII students of SMPN 1 Balung Jember in
the 2011/2012 academic year. The research respondents were determined by
cluster random sampling through a lottery. The total number of the respondents
was 65 students, consisting of 36 students of grade VIII F as the experimental
group taught by using cooperative learning: jigsaw I technique , while the control
group consisted of 35 students of grade VIII E taught by Lecturing and Question-
Answer method.
The primary data of this research were collected from the students’ scores
of reading comprehension test. The primary data were collected from the post test
to compare the two different groups after treatment, and analyzed the result by
using Independent sample T-Test (SPSS). Based on the calculation, the result of
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this research showed that there was a significant effect of using Jigsaw I technique
on the year VIII students’ reading comprehension achievement. It was proved by
the value of significant column of t-test table by using SPSS sofware, and the
result was 0.035 which was lower than 0.05 (significant level of 5%). This means
that the null hypothesis (H0) formulated: “there is no significant effect of using
cooperative learning: Jigsaw I technique on the year VIII students’ reading
comprehension achievement of SMPN 1 Balung Jember in the 2011/2012
academic year” was rejected, thus the alternative hypothesis: “there is significant
effect of using cooperative learning: Jigsaw I technique on the year VIII students’
reading comprehension achievement of SMPN 1 Balung Jember in the 2011/2012
academic year”was accepted.
The research results proved that there was significant effect of using
cooperative learning: Jigsaw I technique on the year VIII students’ reading
comprehension achievement of SMPN 1 Balung Jember in the 2011/2012
academic year. Therefore, it is recommended for the English teacher to apply
jigsaw I as an alternative technique in teaching reading comprehension | en_US |
