ENHANCING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH JIGSAW AS ONE OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Abstract

For more than seventy years of Indonesian independence day, the teaching of English in
Indonesia has still been far from being satisfactory as proven that some fresh graduate
students from senior high schools have still been lack of English mastery especially their
speaking ability even though based on competency standard of English teaching in senior
high schools. They are expectedly able to reveal various meanings (interpersonal, ideational
and textual) in various spoken texts. This research investigates the role of the students in their
learning activities by implementing Jigsaw learning technique in Speaking English class and
finds out the students’ attitude towards Jigsaw learning technique applied in their class. To
get the data needed in this action research, both researcher and English teachers collaborate,
observe, and work together to know how Jigsaw learning technique is applied in speaking
class. Besides the researcher also gives 42 English students a questionnaire so-called
Jigsaw Opinion Scale (JOS) to find out the students’ attitude towards the implementation
of Jigsaw learning technique in their English Speaking Class at the end of the study. The
results of this research show that Jigsaw learning technique makes English students talk
much as they become the centre of their learning activities, and the students (73,8%) have
positive attitude towards the implementation of Jigsaw English learning technique in
English Speaking class.