Abstract :
This research was conducted from the considerations that the students still got low
scores in reading comprehension test. There were many factors that influenced
students’ problems in comprehending the reading text. One of the strategies which
is considered applicable and useful in increasing students’ reading comprehension
is jigsaw technique. Therefore, this research was intended to find out whether
there was a significant increase of students’ reading comprehension achievement
of news item text after being taught through jigsaw technique.
This quantitatif research was conducted at SMAN 1 Punggur. The population of
this research was the first year students that consist of six classes and two classes
were chosen randomly by using lottery as experimantal class and tryout class. The
the study employed one group pretest posttest design. The students were given
three treatments. As the instruments, the researcher used objective reading test,
that is, multiple choice test that was administered both in pretest and posttest.
Repeated measure T-Test was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing
was computed using SPSS version 16.00 at the level significant of .05. Based on
the calculation t-test, the result showed that the students’ mean scores of posttest
(79.03) was higher than the pretest (60.26) with the difference of 18.77 point. The
results of t-test indicated that the significant (2-tailed) value was 0.000 (p=0.000,
P<0.05). It showed that the hypothesis was accepted, since there was an increase
of students’ reading comprehension achievement of news item text after being
taught through jigsaw technique. It was proved by their enthusiasm and
participation, the students seemed so active in teaching learning process.
Therefore, jigsaw technique is recommended to be used by the teachers to
increase their students’ reading comprehension achievement. However, since
students have opportunity to interact in discussion, teachers should pay careful
attention to overcome noisy class.