This study aims to improve motivation through the jigsaw method. Subjects were students of S1 degree from Visual Communication Design or Desain Komunikasi Visual (DKV) STMIK Asia Malang at 2018/2019 academic year. Type of research is classroom action research. Improving students’learning motivation is intended to assist the teacher in improving students’achievement. So that, the action research was conducted to measure how jigsaw method can improve students’learning motivation in the English subject. Collecting data used learning motivation questionnaire which is grouped into good, enough, fair, and bad motivation. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis. Result of the study shows that there is an increased on students’ learning motivation using jigsaw method with an average score from the first cycle to the second cycle of 95%. The researcher suggests teachers to apply various learning activities through group discussion especially jigsaw that can improve students’ learning motivation so that students can actively involve in the teaching learning process.
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