THE URGENCY OF AN EFFECTIVE READING TECHNIQUE FOR STUDENTS TO FACE ASEAN COMMUNITY ERA

Abstract

The establishment of ASEAN Economic Community Era (AEC) has made the role of English become more and more urgent. To be able to compete in AEC market, people should have good command of English. Students that are prepared as human capital should be able to use English actively. Thus, this study aims to seek an effective reading technique that helps students to improve their reading skill to face ASEAN Community Era. used jigsaw technique of cooperative learning in teaching reading. The sample of this research consisted of two
classes, class III as experimental group consisted of 27 students and class II2 as control group consisted of 28 students. There was a pretest and post test and also a questionnaire to the students. To obtain the data, the researcher applied the statistical formula to calculate the tests score between experimental class and control class. The means score of posttest of experimental class is 84.85 and the mean score of control class is 61.89. The t score of pretest between experimental class and control class is 2.0 and the t score of posttest between
experimental class and control class is 2.90. The result of the two tests by applying jigsaw technique in teaching reading comprehension is 2.90. This showed that jigsaw technique is effective in improving students’ comprehension in reading. It means that the hypothesis is accepted.