The effect of jigsaw technique on enhancing EFL intermediate students' writing skill

الملخص EN

The present study aims at finding out the effect of using jigsaw technique on the achievement of 2nd intermediate school students in writing.

The population of the study comprises the second-year students at the intermediate schools for boys in the center of Babylon Governorate for the academic year (2016-2017).

Two samples were randomly selected from Safy Al-Deen Intermediate School for boys to represent the experimental group (30 students) and the control group (30 students).

pre and post tests were constructed by the researcher.

A T-test formula for two independent samples is used to analyze the obtained data.

The results showed that Jigsaw technique is considered more effective, useful, and favorable to teach writing skill than the conventional one.