The Effect of using jigsaw strategy on students' reading comprehension
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2013
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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This Study aimed at investigating the impact of jigsaw strategy on students' reading comprehension in english at Larbi Ben M'Hidi university, department of english. It attempted to answer the following question: Does jigsaw strategy have a positive effect on students' reading comprehension Seventy nine students in Larbi Ben M'Hidi university english department were randomly chosen in the 2nd semester of the academic year2012/2013. The participants of the study consisted of two assigned groups. To answer the question of the study, a pre-test was administrated for the reading comprehension. We
prepared reading materials to be taught based on the jigsaw strategy for the experimental group which was taught according to jigsaw strategy; while the control group was taught according to the conventional way. By the end of the experiment, we administered the reading comprehension post-test to both groups. Statistical measures were used to examine the
significance of the treatment on the dependent variable that is reading comprehension. The results revealed that no significant differences were found in favor of Jigsaw II on the variable of reading comprehension. The study also proposed a number of recommendations and
suggestions for future research.
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Cooperative learning, Investigating : jigsaw strategy