The Effect of Using Jigsaw Type II Technique on Junior High School Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement

Abstract

Reading is concerned as the English language skill taken in this research because it is considered as the significant language skill in English as a second or foreign language as English continues to spread as the language of science, technology and advance research. In addition, the Curriculum 2013 of Indonesia demands the students to face many types of text, and the most English skill tested in their examination is reading. Those indicate that the students need to be taught using a specific reading technique when they learn to read. One of those reading techniques is Jigsaw Type II that was developed by Slavin in 1980. It is a technique that lets the students form group, namely home group and expert group, sharing their ideas and knowledge guided by the teacher as a facilitator in providing the material discussed in the group. A quasi experimental design with post-test only design was used to investigate whether or not there was a significant effect of using Jigsaw Type II Technique on Junior High School Students’ Reading Comprehension Achievement at SMP 1 Kedungjajang. The researcher chose SMP 1 Kedungjajang as the research area using purposive method because there was no research about this conducted at this school and the English teachers have never used Jigsaw Type II Technique in teaching reading comprehension for the seventh grade students in the 2018/2019 academic year. The number of the research participants were 51 students in total. The experimental class consisted of 25 students and the control class had 26 students. The research participants were selected by using cluster random sampling with lottery