Enhancing students’ reading comprehension through jigsaw at Vocational High School

The objectives of the research are to increase students’ reading comprehension through jigsaw and to describe classroom situation when jigsaw is applied in teaching reading. Classroom action research was carried out through observasion, interview, test consisting of two cycles. 35 Multi Media students of tenth grade at SMKN 2 Kediri were assigned as participants. The results showed that jigsaw could enhance the students’ reading comprehension and classroom situation. It can be seen that the students were eager, more interested and more motivated to participate in reading class. During the process of teaching reading, the students were more active than before and the class atmosphere was more alive. Then, students’ reading achievement in cycle two improved. The students’ average score was higher, from 71,85 in the first cycle to 79,85 in the second cycle.