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YAYUK WAHYUNI. NIM: 091065327.The Effectiveness of Jigsaw Teachnique in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text to the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Bhakti Pemuda Indonesia Bekasi in the First Semester of the 2013/2014 Academic Year. A Paper; Jakarta, The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. Hamka, 2014. The purpose of this research is to get the empirical evidence of the effectiveness of jigsaw technique in teaching reading comprehension to the eighth grade student of SMP Bhakti Pemuda Indonesia Bekasi. The population of the research is the eighth of SMP Bhakti Pemuda Indonesia Bekasi. There are four classes; VIII-A,VIII-B,VIII-C and VIII-D with the total number of population is 159 students. The writer decided to take 39 students for the experimental class and 40 students for the control class out of the population for the sample of the research. They were taken from the VIII-A and VIII-B by using purposive cluster sampling technique. This research findings show that using jigsaw technique in the teaching reading comprehension to the experiment class gets the average score (X) of 63.05. While in the control class, that is using conventional technique gets the average score (X) of 57.45. To know the effectiveness of using jigsaw technique in teaching students‟ reading comprehension, The writer uses the hypotheses test of t-Test. From the compulation result, tobserved = 5.23 and ttable = 1.68 with 0.05 significance level. Because to>tt, it means jigsaw technique is effective in teaching reading comprehension to the eighth years students of SMP Bhakti Pemuda Indonesia Bekasi in 2013/2014 Academic Year.