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The jigsaw technique brings reading lessions to life

This paper briefly introduces the jigsaw technique and its benefits as well. Afterwards, it lists the steps that the teachers can follow to form a jigsaw classroom and gives some tips on implementing the jigsaw technique. Lastly, the paper draws some conclusions and suggests further research. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE Vol. 57 No. 1 pp. 53-60 THE JIGSAW TECHNIQUE BRINGS READING LESSIONS TO LIFE Nguyen Tam Trang Hanoi Nationnal University of Education E-mail tamtrang2710@yahoo.com.vn Abstract. Reading class hour might be boring if students just stick to their chairs read the given passages individually fulfill some reading tasks and finally check their answers with their teacher. Nonetheless it was only a traditional case occurring in the past since teachers have made an enormous attempt on working out a diversity of reading techniques so as to make the lessons more lively one of which is the jigsaw classroom technique. This paper briefly introduces the jigsaw technique and its benefits as well. Afterwards it lists the steps that the teachers can follow to form a jigsaw classroom and gives some tips on implementing the jigsaw technique. Lastly the paper draws some conclusions and suggests further research. Keyworld reading reading techniques jigsaw classroom benefits of jigsaw. 1. Introduction In general reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of deriving meaning reading comprehension and or constructing mean- ing. . . a means of language acquisition of communication and of sharing infor- mation and ideas an article Reading process 2010 . Of the four macro-skills reading is by far the most important skill particularly in English as Second Lan- guage ESL or English as Foreign Language EFL Carrel 1981 p.1 . In particular for many students reading first provides them with a lot of in- teresting information as they thanks to reading might be exposed to the required knowledge that is available in English Munby 1978 p.3 . Moreover through read- ing students may gain access to a rich diversity of linguistic expressions as well as grammatical structures which can come in handy for them to enhance the other skills. Traditionally reading was acknowledged as a bottom-up process in a word- sentence-passage sequence in which .