Improving Students' Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text By Using Jigsaw (A Classroom Action Research in the Second Year of SMP YMJ Ciputat

This study was designed to improve the students? reading comprehension of narrative text by using Jigsaw technique. The objective of the study was to find out how Jigsaw technique can be used to improve the reading comprehension of narrative text of the second year students? of SMP YMJ Ciputat. This study was categorized as the Collaborative Classroom Action Research (CAR) method in which the writer and the collaborative teacher worked together in conducting the study. The researcher acted as observe the implementation of jigsaw technique while the English teacher became the teacher. This study was conducted in two cycles by following the procedures of the action research such as planning, implementing, observing, and reflecting. The data of the study were gathered through following instrument; interview, observation, and test. It is initiated through the interview the teacher and through the observation in VIII A class at SMP YMJ Ciputat; considered as the class whose midterm test especially in reading test are low. The amounts of students in that class are 45. All students were taken as the subject of the research. The finding of the study indicated that Jigsaw technique was effective in attractive the students? motivation and participation. First, that there was improvement % of students? mean score from pretest to the posttest 2. In the pretest, there were 4 (18 %) students passed the KKM with the mean score Then in posttest 1 there were 8 ( %) students passed the KKM with the mean score69. 9 In the result of posttest 2, there were 19 ( %) students passed the KKM with the mean score of reading test derived 76.40 Second, the observation of result showed that the students were more attractive and participate to the reading material. Third, based on interview result known that the students? reading comprehension of narrative text successfully improved by using the Jigsaw technique and also it assisted the teacher in the finding the appropriate strategy in teaching reading