%0 Generic
%A 0813042035 , Linda Septiyana 
%D 2012
%F eprints:9441
%T   INCREASING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT      OF NEWS ITEM TEXT THROUGH JIGSAW TECHNIQUE AT THE FIRST  YEAR STUDENTS OF SMAN 1 PUNGGUR
%U http://digilib.unila.ac.id/9441/
%X This research was conducted from the considerations that the students still got low  scores in reading comprehension test. There were many factors that influenced  students’ problems in comprehending the reading text. One of the strategies which  is considered applicable and useful in increasing students’ reading comprehension  is jigsaw technique. Therefore, this research was intended to find out whether  there was a significant increase of students’ reading comprehension achievement  of news item text after being taught through jigsaw technique.    This quantitatif research was conducted at SMAN 1 Punggur. The population  of  this research was the first year students that consist of six classes and two classes  were chosen randomly by using lottery as experimantal class and tryout class. The  the study employed one group pretest posttest design. The students were given  three treatments. As the instruments, the researcher used objective reading test,  that is, multiple choice test that was administered both in pretest and posttest.    Repeated measure T-Test was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing  was computed using SPSS version 16.00 at the level significant of .05. Based on  the calculation t-test, the result showed that the students’ mean scores of posttest  (79.03) was higher than the pretest (60.26) with the difference of 18.77 point. The  results of t-test indicated that the significant (2-tailed) value was 0.000 (p=0.000,  P<0.05). It showed that the hypothesis was accepted, since there was an increase  of students’ reading comprehension achievement of news item text after being  taught through jigsaw technique. It was proved by their enthusiasm and  participation, the students seemed so active in teaching learning process.  Therefore, jigsaw technique is recommended to be used by the teachers to  increase their students’ reading comprehension achievement. However, since  students have opportunity to interact in discussion, teachers should pay careful  attention to overcome noisy class.