i ABSTRACT
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF JIGSAW COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN TEACHING READING AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SMAN 2 METRO
By
Dani Erfan Saputra
Reading is the ability to understand the written texts. Reading skill is needed to get information from books, magazines, novels, essays, and article on internet. Therefore, mastering reading skill is important for all people especially students in senior high school. Reading is the language skill which learners usually find the most difficult. They feel under pressure to understand every word because they are lack in their vocabulary. It automatically influence their ability in making inferences, finding information detail and finding main idea. The teacher has an important role to choose appropriate methods and techniques to attract students’ passion in improving this skills.
This research was aimed at finding out whether there is an improvement of the students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning and investigate which aspects in learning macro skills of reading comprehension significantly improve when Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in teaching reading. The sample was one class of SMAN 2 Metro consists 30 students as experimental class, which was selected by using simple random sampling. Reading tests were used in this research.
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF JIGSAW COOPERATIVE
LEARNING IN TEACHING READING AT THE SECOND
GRADE OF SMAN 2 METRO
By
Dani Erfan Saputra
A Script
Submitted in a Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for S- 1 Degree
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Arts and Language Education Department of Teacher Training and Education Faculty
TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION FACULTY
LAMPUNG UNIVERSITY
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Dani Erfan Saputra was born on April 15th 1991 in Metro, Lampung. He comes from a loveable family with three children and he is the first child of ideal couple, Murjio and Gilyawati. He has two beloved sisters named Tika Listiana and Eliza
Damayanti. After attending kindergarten at TK AL – Qur’an in 1997, he continued his study at Elementary School of SD TELADAN Kota Metro and
graduated in 2003. He pursued his study at SMP Negeri 1 Kota Metro and graduated in 2006. He continued at SMA Negeri 2 Kota Metro and graduated in 2009.
Having graduated from senior high school, he continued his study to the Electrical
Engineering, Lampung University. After two semesters, he did not have passion there. So, he decided to move into English Education Study Program, the Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Lampung University.
He accomplished his Social Appreciationship Training (KKN-KT) Teaching
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DEDICATION
This script is proudly dedicated to:
My beloved father and mother, Murjio and Gilyawati.
My beloved sister Tika Listiana and Eliza Damayanti. My loveable friends of English education Study Program.
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MOTTO
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillahirabbil’alamin, All praise is merely to The Mightiest Allah SWT, the
lord of the worlds, for the gracious mercy and tremendous blessing that enable me to accomplish this script. This research report entitled “Implementation Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in Teaching Reading at the Second Grade Students of SMAN 2 Kota Metro”, is submitted to fulfill one of the requirements in accomplishing the S-1 Degree Program at the Department of Language and Arts of Teacher Training and
Education Faculty, University of Lampung.
There are many individuals who have generously suggested to improve this research report. First of all the writer would like to express his sincere gratitude and respect to his first advisor, Ujang Suparman, M.A, Ph.D., and his second advisor, Drs. Sudirman,
M.Pd., who have contributed and given their invaluable evaluations, comments, and suggestions during the completion of this research report. The writer also would like to express his deepest gratitude and respect to Drs. Basturi Hasan, M.Pd., as his
examiner who has generously contributed his suggestion and criticism for the improvement of this research report and also the deepest appreciate for all the lecturers
of English Department. Then, the writer want to express my gratitude to Dr. Muhammad Fuad, M.Hum. as the chairperson of Language and Art Education
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The writer also wants to extend her appreciation to Hartanto, S.Pd., the headmaster of
SMAN 2 Kota Metro, for providing the opportunity to conduct this research. Then, next appreciation is addressed to Drs. Suprapto as the English teacher in SMAN 2 Kota
Metro for being so helpful during the research process in her class. Besides, the writer also extends his thankfulness to students of class XI.IPA 1 for their willingness, cooperation, and participation in this research.
The writer address sincere gratefulness to his friends, the 45 family: Luki, Fadhil,
Rahmat, Ujang, Rio, Alex, Bedul, Ferdy, Fajar Ahlan, Yosi and Bayu. The next appreciation is also expressed to all members of UKM ESO UNILA and all 2010
colleagues of English Department in Lampung University. Thank you so much for being such a great companion along the way in finishing this script and for the unbreakable friendship. The other supports also come from Affriyan Eko, Yudi, Harris
Tamzil, Nandita Wana, Tanjung Wulandari, Kharisma Juve, Wahyudi, Okky, Aryo, Lanang, and RBP Groups.
Last but not least, his special gratitude and indebtedness are dedicated to his beloved mother, Gilyawati and his beloved father, Murjio, who always give their loves, prayers,
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Finally, may Allah SWT receives all their works and kindness. Amin.
Bandar Lampung, 16 Desember 2014 The Writer
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2.2.2. Concept ofTeaching Reading Comprehension ... 14
2.2.3. Aspects of Reading Comprehension ... 19
2.2.4. Narrative Text ... 23
2.2.5. Jigsaw Cooperative Learning ... 27
2.2.6. Procedures of Teaching Reading Comprehension through Jigsaw Technique... ... 30
2.2.7. The Applicability in Learning Procedures... 32
2.2.8. Advantages and Disadvantages of Jigsaw Technique... ... 35
2.2.9. Theoretical Assumption ... 36
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IV. RESULT OF DATA ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 4.1. Result of the Research.. ... 51
4.1.1. Result of Pretest... ... 52
4.1.2. Result of Posttest.. ... 54
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I. INTRODUCTION
This chapter described the reasons for conducting the research and it deals with several points: introduction that concerns with background of the problems,
identification of the problems, limitation of the problems, formulation of the problems, objectives of the research, significance of the research, and definition of
terms as will be elaborated in the following sections.
1.1. Background of the Problems
In learning English, students are expected to be able to master all language skills, i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Basically, reading is important to succeed in international communication. Reading is the ability to understand the
written texts. Besides that, English has been a compulsory subject in all levels of education from elementary to university. The need for reading and taking out the
information from various text above seems to be extremely important. Reading skill is needed to get information from books, magazines, novels, essays, and article on internet.
Therefore, mastering reading skills are important for all people especially students
lack in their vocabulary. It automatically influenced their ability in making
inferences, finding information detail and finding main idea. The teacher has an important role to choose appropriate methods and techniques to attract students’ passion in improving this skills.
In accordance to the pre-observasion at SMAN 2 Kota Metro, it was found that
the students were still confused in determining reference and inference, finding information detail and understanding vocabulary. It can be seen from their final
examination scores. Many students had score under the KKM. It is because the students had difficulty to read because most of them have limited knowledge
mastery of vocabulary and lack understanding of reading skills such as: understanding vocabulary, making inferences, finding information detail and finding main idea.
Another problem was lack of the students’ participation in the classroom. For example when the teacher dominated the activity in the classroom, the students
might feel like they do not have enough chance to participate actively. The lack of participation may result in lack of motivation. And lack of motivation influenced students’ reading comprehension.
As stated previously, one of the problems may be that the students felt bored
because the techniques used by the teacher was monotonous. There were many students who felt sleepy when the teacher explained the materials. It may be
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necessary for English teacher to make reading materials more interesting and
motivating so that the students can progress in reading.
Therefore, the writer applied cooperative learning in teaching reading
comprehension. Cooperative learning is one of learning strategies which is considered applicable and useful in increasing students’ reading comprehension
and make the students active during the learning process (Majid, 2007). Students
must work in groups to complete tasks collectively. Furthermore, the teacher's role changes from giving information to facilitating students' learning. Everyone
succeeds when the group succeeds. Cooperative learning has some technique, they are; STAD, discussion, mind mapping, think pair and share, jigsaw, role playing
etc.
In this research, jigsaw cooperative learning was choosen to make the situation enjoyable and motivating. The writer tried to apply the technique that may be
effective to improve the students’ reading ability to solve the problems in comprehending the text. The writer applied jigsaw technique in teaching reading. Jigsaw cooperative learning is a special form of information gap in which each
member of a group is given some specific information and the goal is to pool all information to achieve some objectives (Brown, 2001:179). Jigsaw cooperative
learning is developed by Aronson. Jigsaw is used firstly in 1971 in Austin, Texas.
The purpose of jigsaw reading is to develop student’ mindset to think creatively. It makes the students to be independent. It also keeps existence of high level
Furthermore, this research focused on the implementation of jigsaw Cooperative
Learning in teaching reading toward reading skills. This technique was applied to
investigate what is aspects of reading most improved when jigsaw Cooperative
Learning implemented in teaching reading. This strategy was choosen since the
Senior High School students have monologue/essay, i.e. descriptive, report, recount, narrative, procedure texts and functional texts, i.e. advertisement,
brochure, schedule, message, notice, invitation. In accordance with the information from the teacher, Jigsaw Cooperative Learning had not applied yet by
teacher of SMAN 2 Kota Metro.
Therefore, the writer was really interested in improving students’ reading comprehension using Jigsaw Cooperative Learning and which aspect of reading
significantly improve after being taught by Jigsaw Cooperative Learning at the second grade of SMAN 2 Kota Metro in term of macro skills.
1.2. Identification of the Problems
In relation to the background of the problem above, the following problems can be
identified:
1. The students get difficulties in comprehending the reading text, finding the main idea, getting information from the text, finding the details, finding
synonyms or antonyms in particular words, getting the answer to the questions based on the text and making inference from the text. In line
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2. The teacher do not realize the appropriate technique or method of teaching
reading especially which deals with active learning which needs to be applied in various types of text the students’ interaction.
3. In learning process, the teachers only apply the same technique for all types of reading texts. The result is that the students do not have any ideas in their mind of their reading.
4. The students get bored while learning process because the technique used by the teacher are monotonous.
5. The students are lazy to memorize the words and practice English in their daily life. So that they are lack of vocabulary.
1.3. Limitation of the Problem
In line with the identification of the problems, the focus of the research was on the teaching reading comprehension using Jigsaw technique. The decision was taken
1.4. Formulation of the Problems
In relation to the limitation of the problem above, the research problems were formulated as follows:
1. Is there any significant improvement of students’ reading comprehension achievement after implementing Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in teaching reading at the second year students of SMA Negeri 2 Metro?
2. Which aspects of reading comprehension significantly improve after using
Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in teaching reading at the second year of SMAN 2 Metro in term of macro skills?
1.5. Objectives of the Research
In line with the formulation of the problems above, objectives of the research
were as follows:
1. To find out whether there is an improvement of the students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through Jigsaw
Cooperative Learning.
2. To investigate which aspects in learning macro skills of reading
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1.6. Significances of the Research
The results of this study were expected to be beneficial both theoretically and practically elaborated in the following section.
1. Theoretically
The results of the research were expected to support theories dealing with Jigsaw
Cooperative Learning, as disscussed in chapter 2.
2. Practically
1) The results of this research were expected to give information to the English teachers, especially in guiding students to read text effective way.
2) It was also expected to encourage students’ awareness of making inference in various types of reading texts through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning.
1.7. Scope of the Research
This research was conducted to improve the reading’s comprehension skills and to
investigate which aspects in learning macro skills of reading comprehension
significantly improve of second grade of senior high school students. The
strategies that were applied in this research are active learning which cover Jigsaw Cooperative Learning Strategy in experimental class. There would be taken one
(imaginative experiences) because of suggestion teacher of English. The students
are expected to be able to comprehend some reading aspects in macro skills: main idea, vocabulary, specific information, reference and inference. The materials was
taken from English Book based on the School Based Curriculum (KTSP) of SMA. To find out the improvement of students’ reading comprehension, set of pre-test
and post-test measured here.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter deals with the followings points: review of previous research and
review of related literature. Those reviews also will deal with some previous research jigsaw in teaching reading.
2.1. Review of Previous Research
Some researchers have investigated about Jigsaw Cooperative Learning in
teaching reading. The previous researches are discussed in the following paragraphs:
(a). Dirgantara (2013) has investigated whether there is significant difference of students’ achievement in reading achievement of descriptive text before and after
being taught through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning. He has found out that there is significant difference of students’ achievement in reading achievement before and
after being taught through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning. His result indicates that the increase of students’ reading comprehension scores in the experimental class
after treatments was significant. It increased from 49.76 to 57.97. So, he concludes that Jigsaw Cooperative Learning can be used to increase students’ reading comprehension achievement because the students could discuss and work together to accomplish their learning task, and enables students to understand the
(b). Septiyana (2012) has find out whether Jigsaw Cooperative Learning can
increase students’ reading achievement of new item. Her result indicates that the increase of students’ reading comprehension scores in the experimental class after
treatments was significant. She concludes that Jigsaw Cooperative Learning can be used to increase students’ reading comprehension achievement. Yet in this research students’ response about Jigsaw Cooperative Learning is unavailable. So
this research wants to know students’ response about this technique.
(c). Dedi (2010) has compared between Jigsaw Cooperative Learning and SQ3R technique in increasing students’ reading comprehension achievement. He has
found out that there is a difference of students’ reading comprehension achievement between those who were taught through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning and those taught through SQ3R technique. The mean score of the posttest in the experimental class using Jigsaw Cooperative Learning was higher
than the mean score of pretets was 60.37 the average score of posttest was 70.50 and the increase was 10.13. Meanwhile in control class those taught through SQ3R, the mean of pre test and post test increase the students’ reading
comprehension achievement significantly. That happened because jigsaw can motivate students to study since they work within their groups.
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there had not research about Jigsaw Cooperative Learning that investigates what
aspect in learning macro skills of reading comprehension most improved. So, this research was interested in conducting the research about it.
2.2. Review of Related Literature
In the review of related literature, it is necessary to deal with some terms related
to this research.
2.2.1. Concept of Reading
Although reading is one of receptive skills like listening. Many people use the
term reading in different ways. It is because people have different importance
when they are reading. Therefore, reading will be described and defined in various
ways. Reading is one of English skills besides listening, speaking, and writing. Nuttal (2000:2) states reading means a result of interaction between the writer’s mind and the reader’s mind. It is the way how to the reader tries to get the
message or the intended meaning from the writer. In this process, the reader tries to create the meanings intended by the writer, the reader can get the message, and the writer’s meaning sense.
According to Pang (2003:6) as quoted by Noviyanto (2012) reading is defined as understanding written texts. He says that reading consists of two related processes: word recognition and comprehension. Word recognition is defined as
and connected text. He adds his statement that the reader who has background
knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other
strategies can help them understand written texts.
Meanwhile, Howart (2006:1) says that “reading is, of course, just as
communicative as any other form of language. “ It means that in reading there is
an interaction between the writer and the readers through the texts. The writer
tries to encode the messages to the readers. Then the readers try to decode the
messages that sent by the writer. Reading is the instantaneous recognition of
various written symbols, simultaneous association of these symbols with existing
knowledge.
According to Brown (2004:187-188) the intellectual skills are divided into two
terms: macro skills and micro skill, nevertheless the focus this study is on macro skills because this study is conducted at senior high school. It is because the component of macro skills related to reading text with comprehension skills and it
refers to following classification.
2.2.1.1 Micro skills, the skills are as follows:
a. Discriminate among distinctive graphemes and orthographic patterns of English. Grapheme is a letter or letter pattern that spells a a phoneme (speech sound). English has a complex code in which 1-4 letter graphemes can
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/ˈkæt/ consists of three letters c , a , and t , in which c represents the sound /k/, a the sound /æ/, and t the sound /t/.
b. Retain chunks of language of different lengths in short term memory. c. Process writing at an efficient rate of speed to suit the purpose.
d. Recognize a core of words, and interpret word order patterns and their significance. A core word is a set of words that a student is expected to be able to read and spell. Example of core word: big, blue, can, come, down,
find, for, funny, go, help, here, I, in, is, it, jump, little, look, make, me, my,
not, one, play, red, run, said, see, the, three, to, two, up, we, where, yellow,
you
e. Recognize grammatical word classes (nouns, verb etc.) systems (e.g. tense,
agreement, pluralization), patterns, rules, and elliptical forms.
f. Recognize that a particular meaning may be expressed in different grammatical forms.
g. Recognize cohesive devices in written discourse and their role in signaling the relationship between and among clauses.
2.2.1.2. Macro skills, the skills are as follows:
a. Recognize the rhetorical forms of written discourse and their significance for interpretation. It is the ability to know descriptive writing which is intended to seem important or influence specific information out of a text from an
explanation or opinion of what something means.
b. Recognize the communicative functions of written texts, according to form
c. Infer context that is not explicit by using background knowledge.
d. From described events, and ideas infer links and connections between events, deduce causes and effects, and detect such relations as main idea, supporting
idea, new information, given information, generalization, and exemplification.
e. Distinguish between literal and implied meanings.
f. Detect culturally specific references and interpret them in a context of the appropriate cultural schemata.
g. Develop and use a battery of reading strategies such as scanning and skimming, detecting discourse markers, guessing the meaning of words from
context, and activating schemata for the interpretation of texts
Briefly, the research focusing on macro skills is concerned mainly cover with finding main idea, finding supporting detail, finding inference meaning, guessing
meaning of the words (understanding vocabulary) and finding reference respectively. The research is conducted at Senior High School.
2.2.2. Concept of Teaching Reading
The aim of teaching reading is to develop students’ skills that they can read
English texts effectively. Alyousef (2005: 143) says that in teaching reading, contemporary reading tasks, unlike the traditional materilas, involves three-phase
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while-reading stage (or interactive process) is to develop students’ ability in tackling texts by developing their linguistic and schematic knowledge. Post-reading includes activities, which enhance learning comprehension using
matching exercises, close exercises, cut-up sentences, and comprehension questions.
The aim of teaching reading is to develop students’ skills that they can read English texts effectively. In teaching reading comprehension, the teacher needs some strategies to make the students comprehend the reading texts. According
Brown (2000: 306-311) , the following are ten strategies which can be applied in the teaching reading comprehension in the classroom:
a). Identifying the purpose in reading
By knowing the purpose of what the reader reads, the reader can throw the
unwanted distraction or information. By doing this, students know what information they want to know in reading the texts (Brown, 2000: 306).
b). Using graphemic rules and patterns to aid in bottom up decoding (especially for the beginning level learners)
At the beginning levels of learning English, one of the difficulties that students encounter in learning to read is making the correspondences between spoken and written English. Here teacher also need to teach how to read the sound words with
c). Using efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension (for intermediate to advanced levels)
In advanced learner, teacher can apply reading fast to reduce time consuming in reading. Readers do not need to pronounce every word and do not need to know the meaning of every word but the comprehension of the text is more important.
d) Skimming the text for the main ideas
Basically, skimming is the one of the most valuable reading strategies for learners. Skimming consist of quickly running one’s eyes across a whole text (such as an
essay, article, or chapter) to find out what the text tells about or to find out the main idea of the text. Skimming gives readers the advantages of being able to guess the purpose of the passage, the main topic, or massage, and possibly some
of the developing or supporting ideas.
e). Scanning the text for specific information
Theoritically, scanning is quickly searching quickly for some particular piece or pieces of information that the reader needs in reading a text. Scanning exercises
may ask students to look for names or dates, to find a definition of a key concept, or to list a certain number of supporting details.
f). Using semantic mapping or clustering
In several, readers can resume the long string of ideas or events by grouping the
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mapping, or grouping ideas into meaningful clusters, helps the reader to remember
the contents of the text.
g). Guessing when you are not certain
In accordance with Brown (2001: 309) that guess are an extremely broad category. Learners can use guessing to their advantages to:
(1) guess the meaning of a word,
(2) guess grammatical relationship (e.g., a pronoun reference),
(3) guess a discourse relationship,
(4) infer implied meaning (“between the lines”),
(5) guess about a cultural reference, and (6) guess content massages,
Those skills can be used by the teacher as strategies to overcome the difficulties in the students’ reading comprehension. Moreover, the students should encourage
themselves to be effective readers. Effective reading comprehension skills help the students in all the other subjects and in the personal and professional lives on
their future.
Hedge (2003) also defines that any reading component of an English language
teaching may include a set of learning goals for :
1. The ability to read a wide range of the texts in English. This is the
long-range goal most teachers seek to develop through independent readers outside EFL/ESL classroom.
3. Building schematic knowledge.
4. The ability to adapt the reading technique according to reading purpose (i.e. jigsaw learning strategy, etc.).
5. Developing an awareness of the structure of written texts in English. 6. Taking a critical stance to the contents of the texts.
7. It is important to build up students’ ability to adapt the reading strategy according to reading purpose (jigsaw learning strategy in teaching reading).
The aim of teaching reading is to develop students’ skills that they can read
English texts effectively and efficiently. To be able to do so the readers should have particular purposes in their mind before they interact whith the texts. Effective and efficient reading always purposeful and tends to focus mainly on the
purpose of the activity. Then the purpose of reading is implemented into the development of different reading techniques: scanning, skimming, mapping, CTL Strategy, and jigsaw learning strategy. These can be real when the students read
and interact with various types of the texts, i.e. functional and monologue texts. In additonm in teaching reading the teacher should provide strategy to the students
with purpose for reding to anticipate different type of reading texts. Therefore, reading technique should be matched to reading purpose to read efficiently and effectively.
Broadly, it is assumed that in teaching reading, appropriate and possible technique
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comprehension. They use reading strategy to make their reading efficient and
effective. Jigsaw strategy will be possible to be applied by the Senior High School students in their reading, e.g. students are able to identify and look for the specific
information in monologue and functional text.
2.2.3. Aspects of Reading Comprehension
This study is intended to use reading comprehension in macro skills. There are five aspects of reading which help the students to comprehend the English text:
main idea, specific information, references, inference and vocabulary.
1. Identifying Main Idea
Basically, main idea refers to important information that tells more about the
overall idea of a paragraph or section of a text. Suparman (2011) states the main idea is the most important idea stated in the topic sentence and developed
by supporting sentences in a single paragraph. Commonly, the main purpose of comprehension is getting the main idea. Usually the topic sentence tells what the rest paragraph is about in some paragraphs because the main idea is the
only idea that should be developed in one paragraph. Naturally once we can find the topic, we are ready to find the main idea. Thus, the main idea is
actually the point of the paragraph. It is basically the most important thought about the topic.
It is said that no reading without understanding the main idea. The author can
usually the first sentence. The writer then uses the rest of the paragraph to
support the main idea Example question of main idea can be: (1) What is the main idea of the passage? (2) What is the main in last paragraph?
The paragraph below is as an example of main idea placed at beginning commonly in reading text at Senior High School.
Sidapaksha and Sri Tanjung had many obstacles in their marriage.
Sidapaksha’s mother didn’t agree with the marriage. She thought that Sri
Tanjung was not good enough for her son. Sidapaksha was in the service of the
king of Sindureja. He was a nobleman, but Sri Tanjung was not a nobleman.
The main idea (what the writer is saying about the topic) is Sidapaksha and Sri
Tanjung had many obstacles in their marriage.
2. Identifying Specific Information
Commonly, supporting sentence or specific information develops or explain the
topic sentence by giving reasons, examples, facts, an incidents, comparison, analogy, cause and effect and quotation. A paragraph contains facts, statements, examples specifics which guide us to a full understanding of the
main idea. For example, after reading story about Roro Jonggrang, general questions related to specific information can be: 1) Where was Roro Jonggrang
washing some clothes? 2) Did Roro Jonggrang accepted Bandung
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3. Determining References
Naturally, reference is a relation between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another
object. According to Reimer in (2009:34) reference is a relation that obtains between expressions and what speakers use expressions to talk about. References are words or phrase used either before or after the reference in the
reading material. They are used to avoid unnecessary repletion of words or phrases. It means that, such words are used, they are signals to the reader find
the meaning elsewhere in the text.
The paragraph below is as an example of the case mentioned.
Sidapaksha angrily asked his wife and he wanted an explanation. Sri Tanjung
didn’t say anything. She asked her husband to carry her to the river. She
wanted to prove her innocence. Sidapaksha was not sure but finally he
agreed. He took her to the riverbank, and then Sri Tanjung threw herself into
the water and drowned.
This is example question of reference:
He took her to the riverbank…(line 3)
The underline word “her” refers to….
4. Making Inference
Ordinarily, inference is about guessing something from the information which have we read or know. Graesser, Wiemer Hastings, & Wiemer
readers knowledge and the information in the text. One of comprehension strategies to make a conclusion about what is not directly stated in the text
based on clues. Sometimes information is not given directly. According to (Carnine, Silbert & Kameenui, 1997), The implicit or inferential questions
is appropriate for all grades if because they have been taught to think independently. Example question of making inference can be: 1) What was first paragraph talking about? 2) All of the following statement is true related
to the passage, except… 3) What is the best title for the passage?
The paragraph below is as an example of making inference available in the
text.
My wife and I tried to pack light but we made sure not to forget our bathing
suits and sun block. I wasn't sure if I would get seasick again so I made sure to
pack some medicine for upset stomachs.
You can infer a great deal of information from these sentences: The author is
married, he and his wife are going on a trip, they are going to be on a boat.
They will be around water, they will be going swimming, and they have gone
swimming before.
5. Understanding Vocabulary
As a matter of fact, vocabulary is all the words which exist in a particular
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of successful reading. Concerning with those statements indeed vocabulary is
basic for everyone who wants to develop or to produce utterances for reading.
The paragraph below is as an example of understanding vocabulary in reading
text of Senior High School.
It was the princess’s seventeenth birthday. Gogor used the mirror to make a
wish again. This time he wanted to marry the beautiful princess. The princess
married him the next day. In his joyful moment, Gogor told a story about his
past time and the magic mirror. Realizing her husband a bad man, the princess
stole the mirror and prayed that Gogor became a monkey.
“ In his joyful moment, Gogor told a story....” (line 3). What is the best word to replace the underline word?”
Therefore, reading comprehension involves respectively (1) determining main
ideas, (2) determining specific information, (3) drawing references, (4) making inference and (5) understanding vocabulary.
2.2.4. Narrative Text
In accordance to curriculum in SMAN 2 Metro, the text types for the second grade
in the second semester were narrative, spoof and hortatory exposition texts. In this research, the narrative text was taught in the class as the English teacher
A narrative is kind of story that is created in a constructive format ( as a work of
writing, speech, poetry, prose, prose, pictures, song, motion pictures, video games, theatre or dance ) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional
events. Derewianka, (2004:40) states that there are many different types of narrative, those are: humor, romance, crime, legend, myth, fable, real-life fiction, historical fiction, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, diary-novels, and
adventure. Basically, the kinds of narrative above, this research utilized romance, legend, myth, fable, and adventure story because it is suitable with students
basic knowledge.
Narrative text is a sequence of events, which is based on life experiences in difference ways. Narrative is always deals with some problems which lead to the
climax and then turn into a solution to the problem. The researcher hopes the use of this text will help the students comprehend the narrative text easier.
The examples of genres that fit the narrative text structure are listed as follows: (1) Folktale is very old traditional story from a particular place that was originally passed on to the people in a spoken form, e.g., The Mighty. (2) Fairy tale is an old
story about magic things happened intended for amusing and giving lessons meanings and moral values, e.g., Cinderella. (3) Fable is a traditional short story
that teach moral lesson, especially one with the animals as characters: this story is considered as one group of animal stories, e.g., The Lion and the mouse. (4) Myth is a story from ancient times, especially one that was told to explain about natural
events or to describe the early history of place or people, e.g., Tower of Babel. (5) Romance is story which tells about love story that teaches moral lesson. Usually
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Text organization of narrative text: (a) Orientation
In this paragraph, the teacher tells the students who is in the story, when it is
happening, where it is happening and is going on.
(b) Complication
It denotes a crisis arises. It comprises initiating event, subsequent event and
climax aspects when the characters face the problems.
(c) Resolution
It shows that the crisis is resolved. In this part, the character does the act of solving or settling the problem for better or for worse one.
(d) Re-orientation
It indicates the optional point. This means that a story not always uses this, and usually, it states the conclusions of the event based on the writer point of view.
Languages Features of narrative text:
a. Focus on the specific and individual participants.
b. The use of noun phrases.
(A Beatiful princess, a huge temple)
c. The use connectives.
(First, before that, then, finally)
d. The use of adverbial phrases of time and place.
(In the garden, two days ago) e. The use of simple past tense.
f. The use of action verbs.
(Walk, sleep, wake up) g. The use of saying verbs.
(Say, tell, ask)
h. The use of thinking verbs feeling verbs, verbs of senses.
(She felt hungry, she thought she was clever, she smelt something
burning)
Here is the example of narrative text for second year students of SMA:
The example of narrative text:
Pinocchio
(Orientation) : Once upon a time, there was a puppeteer named Geppetto. He really wanted a boy but his wife has been died for a long time ago. One day, he had an idea. He wanted to make a puppet so he would never felt lonely again. He made a puppet all night without resting. In the morning, finally he finished his work. He named the puppet, Pinocchio. He played whole day with Pinocchio. However, he felt lonely again because Pinocchio couldn't talk or walk by himself. In the middle of the night, Geppetto prayed to the God. His wish was Pinocchio became a real boy, human. He thought it on his mind in his dream.
(Complication) : In the next morning, he surprised. Pinocchio was alive. He really was happy. He tough Pinocchio how to walk, how to speak, how to read etc. like a teacher. Pinocchio learned fast. He entered an elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored. So, he went home late. Geppetto worried about him. When Pinocchio came to home, Geppetto asked him. He said he was on school but he didn't. Suddenly, Pinocchio's nose grow longer. It meant thatpinocchiolied.
The next day, Pinocchio got caught by thieves. The thieves was the owner of circus. Pinocchio became a slave for the circus. He was famous because he was a talking puppet. Geppetto worried him. Pinocchio didn't come home for 2 days. He found Pinocchio everywhere. When he discovered the sea, big wave smashed him. He was on whale's stomach when he awoke. He couldn't find the way out.
(Resolution) : In different place, Pinocchio finally could get out from circus. He went to home but Geppetto wasn't on there. He found Geppetto at sea. He had the same accident like Geppetto. He met Geppetto in whale's stomach. They go out from its stomach by made a fire. They went home back together. In the end, they lived happy forever after.
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2.2.5. Concept of Jigsaw Cooperative Learning
In cooperative learning method, there are many kinds of techniques apllied in teaching and learning process. One of the cooperative learning techniques is
Jigsaw. Jigsaw was developed and tested by Elliot Aronson and his colleagues at the University of Texas.Elliot Aronson (1978) says that in jigsaw classroom has to become an expert on single topic that is crucial part of a larger academic
puzzle. It means in using jigsaw technique, the students need to cooperate among them in order to finish the certain task. Aronson (1991) further says that jigsaw is
used in cooperative strategies work in listening classroom. It implies jigsaw technique as one of cooperative learning strategies which requires student-student
interaction in each activities. As one of the techniques of cooperative learning method, Jigsaw has special characteristic that bringing fun into the learning
environment.
This technique is developed by Aronson (1978) involves the formation of Home
Groups to resolve the task. The Home Groups allocate one member to each Expert or Research Group to gather data to bring back to the Home Group. He also
develops Jigsaw Cooperative Learning as Cooperative Learning Strategies.
For example, students are divided into small groups of five or six students each. Each member of the group is assigned a portion of an assignment or research
project. Each member must research the material pertaining to their section of the project and be prepared to discuss it with their classmates.
These arguments is supported by Liang (2002:164) who says that jigsaw
motivation and achievement through a supportive climate of caring and sharing in
the classroom that makes English learning more enjoyable, lively, and encouraging.
Theoritically, Silberman (2009: 47) defines the jigsaw is strategy which is applied globally seems like group-to-group exchange technique with a difference that every student teaches something to their friends. It means that jigsaw applies the
delivery of information which is done by students by working in group then they do a group exchange in the teaching learning activity. In accordance with Nation
(2001) if group work activities are well programmed, they can be a good way for students’ vocabulary growth. By method for transaction learners are given the
chance to explain new words to each other.
In Addition, Aronson (2011:43) says that Jigsaw Cooperative Learning is a technique which has a strong effect on students’ attitude to learning, social
relationship among students in the group. This also means that Jigsaw Cooperative Learning can help the students to rely on each other for information in a way which puts on students above others. Finally, each student will be
valuable in the group. If group work activities are well programmed, they can be a good way for students’ vocabulary growth (Nation 2001). By method for
transaction learners are given the chance to explain new words to each other.
According to Aronson there are ten steps considered important in the
implementation of the jigsaw classroom:
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2. Each group should select their group leader. Those person should initially
be the most courageous student in the group
3. The material is divided into 5-6 part (on for each member)
4. Each student is assigned one part to learn. Student should only have direct access to their own part.
5. Student should be given time to read over their part at least twice to
become familiar with it. Students do not need to memorize it.
6. Experts group should been formed in which one student from each jigsaw
group join other student assigned to the same part. Student in this expert group should be given time to discuss the main points of their part and
prepare the discussion they are going to share to their jigsaw group. 7. Student comes back to their jigsaw group.
8. Student presents his or her discussion part to the jigsaw group. Other
members can make a question to ask.
9. The teacher should control the process of discussion and intervene if any group is having trouble such.
a. Picture of 6 jigsaw groups or home group
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
b. Picture of “expert” group
1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5
2.2.6 Procedures of Teaching Reading Comprehension through Jigsaw Cooperative Learning.
According to Siberman (2009), the researcher modify the activities of teaching
reading comprehension process. The procedures are as follow:
1.Pre Activities
a) Greets student. b) Check attendance list.
c) Chooses the learning materials which can be separated into some parts.
d) The students are informed about the material they are going to learn, the goals of learning will be achieved and reading technique the students use.
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2. While Activities
f) The day’s lesson is divided into 5-6 segments ( one for each member).
g) Each student is assigned one segment to learn. Each student should only have direct access to their own segment.
h) The students should make a group of “Jigsaw Learning”. Every group has a leader from each group in the class.
i) The students should be given time to read over their segment at least twice
to become familiar with it. Students do not need to memorize it.
j) Temporary expert groups should be formed in which one student from
each jigsaw group joins other students assigned to the same segment. Students in this expert group should be given time to discuss the main points of their segment and rehearse the presentation they are going to
make to their jigsaw group. Students in this expert group will be given time to discuss the main idea, specific information and difficult vocabulary
of their paragraph.
k) The students are asked to come back to their jigsaw group and share his or her result discussion to the group and make generic structure of the text.
l) The students listen to the explanation about the lesson such as the generic structure, language features, purpose of the text, and discuss about the
difficulty in understanding the lesson.
m) The students are given a quiz on the materials. n) Discussion of the quiz at the end of the session.
3. Post Activities
o). The students review about what they have learnt. p). The students are given homework.
2.2.7. The Applicability of Learning Procedures
To be clearer, here is the practical of the learning procedures with lesson material of narrative text entitled Pinnocchio.
Pinocchio
1) Once upon a time, there was a puppeteer named Geppetto. He really wanted a boy but his wife has been died for a long time ago. One day, he had an idea. He wanted to make a puppet so he would never felt lonely again. He made a puppet all night without resting. In the morning, finally he finished his work. He named the puppet, Pinocchio.
2) He played whole day with Pinocchio. However, he felt lonely again because Pinocchio couldn't talk or walk by himself. In the middle of the night, Geppetto prayed to the God. His wish was Pinocchio became a real boy, human. He thought it on his mind in his dream.In the next morning, he surprised. Pinocchio was alive.
3) He really was happy. He tough Pinocchio how to walk, how to speak, how to read etc. like a teacher. Pinocchio learned fast. He entered an elementary school. One day, Pinocchio felt bored. So, he went home late. Geppetto worried about him. When Pinocchio came to home, Geppetto asked him. He said he was on school but he didn't. Suddenly, Pinocchio's nose grow longer. It meant that Pinocchio lied.
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5) In different place, Pinocchio finally could get out from circus. He went to home but Geppetto wasn't on there. He found Geppetto at sea. He had the same accident like Geppetto. He met Geppetto in whale's stomach. They go out from its stomach by made a fire. They went home back together. In the end, they lived happy forever after.
(Re-written from Modul Al Qolam 2012/06/example-of-narrative)
Pre activities
Teacher : Good morning, class. How are you today?
Students : We are fine. How are you, Mister?
Teacher : I am fine, Thanks. Is there anyone who absent today?
Students : There is no anyone absent today, Mister.
Teacher : Well… Nice, today we’re going to learn about the text in English? Have you ever heard about Malin Kundang or Cinderella?
Students : Yes, Sir, We have read the story.
Teacher : Now, Class. I have a story here on my hand that will be discussed. The title is Pinnochio. Are you familiar with the story?
Students : Yes, we are, Sir.
Teacher : Well, then what’s the story about?
Student 4 : It tells us a wood doll who get a long nose when he lied.
Student 5 : It is about a wood doll became alive.
Teacher : Good. Now you are going to work in group consisting of 5. So there are seven groups all together.
Students : That is right Mister.
Teacher : Well, these groups are called jigsaw or home groups. I have divided the story into five pieces in accordance to number of paragraph. I give piece of Pinnochio’s story to every member in a group. Now you should read the part that you have.
Students : Yes, Sir.
Teacher : Then the member who gets same part of the story should make a new
group. This group called Expert Group.
Students : That’s a good idea, Sir
Teacher : Now, you should read again your part and discuss the main idea, difficult vocabulary and tell what the story talking about.
Students : We will do it, Sir.
20 minutes later…..
Teacher : Class? Have you finished?
Students : I have not finished discussing the materials Mister...
Teacher : Alright, we have 5 minutes left.
Students : Yes, Sir. We will finish soon.
Teacher : Class!! It is over.. Now back to your jigsaw or home group.
Teacher : Now, each of you shares the discussion of your part. Then I give you 20 minutes to make the generic structure, setting, character, and main idea in each paragraph of the whole story.
Students : It’s alright, Sir.
Teacher : If you have done your task. You can submit your work here.
Teacher : Now, back to your own seat. I have some questions for you to answer related to story that we have discussed. I’ll give 20 minutes answer them.
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Post activities
Teacher : All right, this is the end of our lesson today. So far is there any question?
Teacher : If there is no any question, I think it has been clear for you. Thank
you for your attention today and don’t forget to study at home. Good
morning, class.
Students : Good bye, Mister.
2.2.8. Advantages and Disadvantages of teaching reading through Jigsaw Jigsaw technique has some advantages and disadvantages in application for learning process. The most essential thing in jigsaw, teacher as a fasilitator here,
teacher not only one of the sources of information which will be applied but also the students will take a vital role in this technique to distribute knowledge to other
students. The following as the advantages and disadvantages of using jigsaw cooperative learning are taken from Carrol, (1986: 208-210). Advantage of using Jigsaw, among either, are (1) eacher is not the sole provider of knowledge. The teacher don’t dominate in learning process by becoming sources of information.
(2) efficient way to learn. In implementing jigsaw, students better understand the
material given for further study and simple with group members and material can be evenly administered. (3) builds interpersonal and interactive skills. Indirectly, this technique used to improve students’ interpersonal and interactive skills
among their friends. (4) students will be familiar with their friends. All students will be involved in learning process so that it reduces competition among
While, Disadvantage of using Jigsaw, among either, are (1) the problem of
dominant learner. Learners quickly realize that the group runs more effectively if each students is allowed to present her or his material before question and
comments are taken. (2) the problem of the slow learner. Slow learners do not present an inferior report to the jigsaw group. Therefore, jigsaw cooperative learning relies on “expert group”. In the expert group, learners have a chance to
discuss their report and modify it based on the suggestions of other members of their expert group. (3) if not supported by a qualified classroom conditions (broad)
method is difficult in the run given the number of times students have to move and change the group.
Hopefully, by considering the disadvantages, the teacher can reduce negative effect from jigsaw cooperative learning.
2.2.9. Theoretical Assumption
In accordance with previous explanation, it is said that reading is extremely
complex in learning language. It also stated that Jigsaw Cooperative Learning would increase students’ reading comprehension achievement. If the technique used can be implemented well, actually they learn and practice reading also, at feedback session it helps students to students’ correction. Then, it made them to pay more attention and be more active in teaching learning process. While,
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and the students were also brought into interesting learning and enjoyable
learning.
2.2.10. Hypothesis
III. RESEARCH METHODS
This chapter describes the following major points: the design of the research, population and sample, data collecting technique, research procedure, scoring
system of reading test, try out of research instrument, data analysis, and hypothesis testing.
3.1. Research Design
This research used one group pre-test post-test design (Hatch and Farhady, 1982:20). Hatch and Farhady state that this design is an improvement over the
one-shot case study because it has measured the gains that the subjects have made rather than just looking at how well everyone did at the end. This design was
choosen to find out whether if there is the improvement of students’ reading comprehension achievement after being taught through Jigsaw by comparing the average score (mean) of the pre-test with the average score (mean) of the
post-test.
The research design could be represented as follow:
T1 X T2
T1 : Pre-test
X : Treatment using Jigsaw T2 : Post-test
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Firstly, the pretest was administered to identfy the main idea, to determine
references, to make inference, to identfy supporting detail, and to understand difficult vocabulary before applying the technique. Then, the students were given
four treatments by using Jigsaw Cooperative Learning. Eventually, a posttest was administered to identify improving aspects of reading comprehension.
3.2. Setting of the Research
The settings in this research consisted of place and time. SMAN 2 Metro was choosen as the research because from the teacher’s information in that school, it
was reported that most of students still had problems in comprehending the text. Many students had score under the KKM and they had difficulties in
comprehending the English text. There were 6 meetings that consisted of 2 sessions for pretest and posttest, 4 sessions for treatment.
3.3. Population and Sample
The population of this research was the second grade students of SMAN 2 Kota
Metro in the 2013/2014 academic year. There were six classes in second grade of SMAN 2 Kota Metro and 30 students for each class. The sample was one class as
experimental class, which was selected by using Simple Random Sampling. Simple Random Sampling was used if there were not stratified class. It was applied based on the consideration that every student in the population have the
3.4. Data Collecting Technique
In collecting the data, the following technique was employed: Reading Test
The kind of reading test used was objective test. The reading test was given to identify learners’ reading achievement which consisted of pretest and posttest. The pretest was given before the treatment was conducted, firstly, the pretest was administered to find out the students’ reading comprehension achievement before treatment. The posttest was administered at the end of treatments in order to find out the results of students’ reading comprehension achievement after the 4-time
treatments. The test of reading comprehension in this research was used to answer
those two research questions.
In selecting reading text, this research considered the text based on themes stated in curriculum for second years of SMA (KTSP 2006). The texts were used taken
from any text books and articles on the internet. The composition of the test items
was presented in Table 3.1. below.
Table 3.1. Specification of Reading Test
No Sub-Skills of Reading Item Number Percentage 1 Determining main ideas 3,12,17,22, ,28,30,35,38 20% 2 Inferences 1,7 ,14,18, 21, 24,25,31,36 22,5%
3 References 2,6,11, 15, 20, 27,32,37 20%
4 Finding detail information 4, 8, 10, 23, 29,34,40 17,5% 5 Vocabularies 5, 9, 13,16,19 ,26,33,39 20 %
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3.5. Try Out
Before conducting the research, the data collecting instrument was tried out in order to make sure whether the instruments were valid and reliable to collect the
data. The try out contained 40 items, each item consisted of four options. The type of the instruments was multiple choice test and time allocation was 90 minutes.
The try-out test was administrated first in XI IPA 3 class to analyze the reliability,
level of difficulty, and discrimination power to achieve good test instrument criteria. Then the pre-test and post-test were administrated in XI IPA 3 class to analyze the improvement of the students’ reading comprehension through Jigsaw
technique.
3.5.1. Result of the Try-out Test
Before administrating the pre-test, the try-out test was conducted on May 2nd, 2014 in class XI IPA 3 of SMAN 2 Kota Metro which was chosen randomly to
analyze the reliability, level of difficulty, and discrimination power to achieve good test instrument criteria. There were 40 items administrated based on eight different narrative texts. Those items were in the form of multiple choices, which
contained four options of answer for each (A, B, C, and D). The time allocated was 90 minutes.
Based on the table in Appendix 9, there were 40 items in the try-out test. After analyzing the criteria of good test by using level of difficulty and discrimination
9, 11, 13, 16, 21,34 and 40. The try-out test consisted of 5 difficulty items (25, 31,
35, 36, and 38); 24 average items (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 37, and 39); and 11 easy items (1, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13,
16, 21, 34, and 40). Some of poor and difficult items were revised, 8 revised items (12, 25, 26, 29, 31, 35, 36, and 38) while the average and satisfactory items were
administrated in the pre-test and post-test.
In analyzing discrimination power, there were 13 poor items (1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16,
21, 25, 26, 29, 34, and 40); 6 good items (3, 10, 22, 23, 27, and 28) and 21 satisfactory items (2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39). The items that had criteria level of difficulty < 0.30 and > 0.70 – 1.00 but had satisfactory and good discrimination were revised, meanwhile the items which had average level of difficulty and good and satisfactory
discrimination indexes were administrated for the pre-test and post-test.
After analyzing the level of difficulty and discrimination power, it was found that
30 items were good and administrated for the pre-test and post-test. On the other hand, 10 items were bad and dropped because they did not fulfill the criteria of
level of difficulty and discrimination power.
To analyze the reliability of the test, Split-half technique was used to estimate the
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and even group, Pearson Product Moment formula was used. The computation
showed that the reliability coefficient of the test was 0.99 (Appendix 12). It could be stated that the test had a high reliability since the range of high criteria in the
criteria of reliability was 0.80 – 1.00 (Hatch and Farhady, 1985:247).
3.6. Procedures of Collecting Data
In collecting the data, the following steps are employed.
1. Determining research instrument: for both reading tests (pretest and posttest), the materials were taken from students’ textbook. In the test, kind of narrative
texts was used and in each text used consisted of 3 until 6 paragraphs. It was aimed at making an equal proportion and level of difficulty of both pretest
and posttest. The number of the items were arranged in such a way so that the reliability of the tests could be seen through split-half method.
2. Determining the population and sample of the research: the sample of the research was determined through simple random probability sampling. It means that the sample was selected randomly by using lottery class.
3. Administering Try-Out Test: the try-out test was administered in grade XI. Students were given reading test with 40 items of multiple choices. The test
was done in order to measure the level of difficulty (LD) and discrimination power (DP) as well as find out the realibility and validity of the test.
determining references,making inference, finding detail information, and
vocabulary in texts. Pretest administered for about 60 minutes on first week of the research.
5. Giving treatment: three treatments by using jigsaw were given in two weeks. The treatment conducted in three meetings and 90 minutes for each. The treatments were classroom activity, which uses an apply Jigsaw Cooperative
Learning in reading.
6. Conducting posttest: posttest were conducted after the treatment. Posttest was conducted to find out whether there is a significant students’ reading ability
after the treatments. It was administered for 60 minutes in experimental
group.
7. Analyzing the result of the Test: all the data were gathered by the average score (mean) of reading test and questionnaire was analyzed to draw the
conclusion.
3.7. Criteria of Good Test of Reading
In this research, to prove whether the test of reading had good quality, it must be
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3.7.1 Validity
A test can be considered valid if the test measure the object to be measured and suitable with the criteria (Hatch and Farhady, 1982: 250). The discussion of the
validity of reading test are provided below. 1. Validity of the Reading Test
a. Content validity
Content validity was concerned whether the test was sufficiently representative and comprehensive for the test. In the content validity, the
material was given suitable with the curriculum. Content validity was the extent to which a test measures a representative sample of the subject meter content, the focus of content validity was adequacy of the sample and simply
on the appearance of the test (Hatch and Farhady, 1982; 251).
The topic chosen was narrative text. The topics are the representative of
reading materials of School Based Curriculum or KTSP as a matter of tailoring the lesson to students’ need. To know whether the test has a good
content validity, the items of the test discussed with the expert (advisors), the researchers’ colleague, and the English teacher of Senior High School.
b. Construct Validity
It was concerning to whether the test is actually based on the theory of which
