The Effect of Applying Jigsaw Technique on Students’ Achievement in Reading Comprehension of Narrative Tex

Abstract

Reading is one of the important skills in learning English. Reading can be as a language tool forcommunication and give information. In reading, students do not only read a text but also have tobe able to comprehend the text and to know main idea of the text. In reality, many students haveweakness in reading comprehension, so the writer will conduct the Jigsaw Technique in teachingreading. In this thesis the writer report on the effect of Jigsaw Technique on readingcomprehension. The purpose of this study is to find out whether Jigsaw Technique affect studentson reading comprehension significantly. The Technique that used in the research is quantitative bydoing experimental design. The result shows that the scores of t-test (3.90) > t-table (1,67), itmeans that Jigsaw Technique can improve students’ achievement in reading comprehension. So,the writer concluded that there was significant effect of Jigsaw Technique on students’ Readingcomprehension. And the last the writer gives suggestion that teachers should apply strategyespecially Jigsaw Technique with affects the ability of students in reading comprehension.