This study is based on the importance of reading comprehension but in fact the students’ ability in comprehending reading text at MAN Kendal is low. Especially for reading narrative text.
The problem of this research can be stated as follow: How is the effectiveness of Jigsaw technique to improve students’ reading narrative text ability?
Its purpose is to find out the effectiveness of Jigsaw technique to improve students' reading narrative text ability.
To achieve the objectives of the study, the writer conducted experimental research. This experimental research was held at MAN Kendal. The population in this research is all students of grade eleventh of MAN Kendal in academic year of 2010/2011. The number of the entire students is 387. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to determine class of research. The subject of the study was the grade XI IPS-1 and XI IPS-2. There were 43 students each class.
The writer conducted research in two classes. The first class (XI IPS-1) was as experimental class and the second class (XI IPS-2) was as control class. The experimental class was taught reading narrative text using Jigsaw technique, whereas the control class was taught reading narrative text without using Jigsaw technique.
In analyzing the data, the writer used a quantitative measurement to find the result. The analysis of the data showed that there was a significant difference of the students’ achievement between experimental class and control class. The average of the students’ achievement before conducted treatnment 47.91 for experimental class and 47.79 for control class. The average of the students’ achievement after conducted treatment in experimental class was 78.14 and in control class was 74.42.
Based on this finding, it is suggested that Jigsaw technique can be used by the teachers to improve students’ ability in reading narrative text.