Improving Students' Reading Comprehension ThroughJigsaw Technique In SMP Negeri 2 Ngrampal, SragenIn The Academic Year Of 2011/2012

• Main Author: Suwandi, Suwandi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2012.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/1/03._Cover.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/2/04._CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/3/05._CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/9/06._CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/10/07._CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/11/08._CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/15/09._Bibliography.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/20/10._Appendix.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/22179/21/02._NASKAH_PUBLIKASI.pdf
• Keywords: LB Theory and practice of education

The objectives of the study are 1) to improve the students' ability in comprehending reading texts at SMP N 2 Ngrampal, Sragen Regency by using Jigsaw, 2) to have the effectiveness of Jigsaw in improving the students' ability in comprehending reading texts at SMP N 2 Ngrampal, Sragen Regency, and 3) to have the strength and the weakness of Jigsaw in improving the students' skill in comprehending reading texts at SMPN 2 Ngrampal Sragen Regency. This is a Class Action Research (CAR). This research is held in the SMP N 2 Ngrampal, Sragen Regency, notably in class VIII/F. The subject is the student of class VIII/F in SMP Negeri 2 Ngrampal in the Academic Year of 2011/2012, as 36 persons. Collecting data are using observation, interview, documentation, and test. The result of this research are 1) Jigsaw improved the students' ability in comprehending reading texts at SMP N 2 Ngrampal, Sragen Regency, 2) The effectiveness of Jigsaw in improving the students' ability in comprehending reading texts at SMP N 2 Ngrampal, Sragen Regency was very high, 3) The strength of Jigsaw that the students become active and cooperative in learning English. Meanwhile, the weakness was incompetent for shabby students during learning English. The suggestion for this research are 1) Teacher could do learning with various methods according to the subject matter and the facilities, and 2) Students could cooperate and discuss about the subject matter, ask the questions and do the tasks.