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From the teacher’s information in that school, it was reported that most of students still had problems in comprehending the text. And lack of motivation may influence students’ reading comprehension.īased on the researcher’s pre-observasion at SMAN 2 Bojong Kenyot, it was found that the students were still confused in determining the main idea of the text, making reference and inference, finding synonyms and vocabulary. The lack of participation may result in lack of motivation. For example when the teacher dominates the activity in the classroom, the students may feel like they do not have enough chance to participate actively. Another problem is lack of the students’ participation in the classroom. So many students are hard to get the idea or meaning of the text. Many kinds of teaching method may result bad or negative effects on students’ reading skill. One of the problems that can be found is the method used by the teachers. Hence, there are some problems in teaching reading.

Therefore, the need for reading and taking out the information from various text above seems to be extremely important.Įnglish is taught as a foreign language in Indonesia. Whereas, students need reading skill to get information from books, magazines, novels, essays, and internet. However, teachers of English often ignore the importance of reading in the classroom. English reading becomes a more and more important in intenational communication. To be able to use English well, reading is one of the important skills. It is based on the goal of teaching English.

In learning English, students are expected to be able to master all language skills of English listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This chapter desribed the reasons for conducting the research and it deals with several points : introduction that concerns with background of the problems, identification of the problems, limitation of the problems, formulation of the problems, objectives of the research, significance of the research, and definition of terms as will be elaborated in the following sections.

IMPLEMENTATION OF JIGSAW IN TEACHING READING