THE APPLICIATION OF JIGSAW TO IMPROVE STUDENTS' READING SKILL

Abstract

This thesis is entittled“The Appliciation of Jigsaw to Improve Students' Reading Skill (an Experimental Teaching) at an SMP Negeri.The problem of this research is the students at the SMP had difficulties in comprehending a text to finding main idea. The aims of this research are to improve students reading skill by applying jigsaw as learning model. The objective of this research is to know whether the appliciation of jigsaw improve students' reading skill. The population of this research was three classes of second grade at an SMP with 69 students. The sample was two class of second grade VIII_b class there 23 students and VIII_c class there 20 students. The instrument of the research was pre-test and post-test. Technique of data analysis used statistical technique such as: mean, standard deviation and t-score. Analyzing the data collected, it was found that the mean of the pre-test of experiment class is 46.73 and control class is 52 the standard deviation of experiment class is 9.78 and control class is 7.96 and t- score of both of them is 5.32 it was found that the mean of post-test of experimental class is 72.82 and control class is 68 the standard deviation of experiment class 7.16 and control class 7.31 t score of both of classes is 6,98. It is not within the limit given (-1,71 ≥ t ≥ +1,72). The result indicates that the Experiment class performance in teaching reading by using jigsaw better than control class. It means that the difference between the two classes is significant. Therefore, the alternative hypothesis is accepted and null hypothesis is rejected. It is mean that the application of jigsaw to improve students’ reading skill is effectives technique in learning.

Key Words:  Jigsaw, Reading Skill.