The Use Of Jigsaw Strategy To Improve Students' Reading Comprehension Achievement At SMKN 1 CANDIPURO

Abstract

The objectives of this research are to find out the improvement of the students' reading ability before and after the implementation of jigsaw strategy and also to identify student perception about the use of jigsaw strategy at SMK N 1 Candipuro. This research was a quantitative research and the method was one group pretest and post-test design. The reading test was administrated as the instrument in this research. In pre-test, students mean score was 53. 86 while in post-test it increases to 65.46; the gain obtained in pre-test to post-test is 11.59. The analysis of SPSS 20 shows that there is improvement of students' reading ability after the implementation of jigsaw strategy; Based on seeing the analysis of students' work in pre-test and post-test on each aspect of reading. It could be found that determining main idea was the aspect that increased the most. Keyword: Jigsaw strategy, Reading