To find out adequate convenient methods and tasks for reading comprehension and translation has been the debate of many studies for several decades. The present study was an effort to examine the effects of jigsaw (cooperative learning) and listen-and-do tasks on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) students' reading comprehension and translation. Based on convenient sampling, the subjects of the study constituted 48 male and female, aged 21 to 25, of fourth semester Applied Science and Technology University Students in Psychology course. Then a Preliminary English Test (PET) was administered to find out the homogeneity of participants. They were divided into experimental groups- experimental 1 and experimental 2. After running pretests, group one was received jigsaw reading tasks, and group two was exposed to listen-and-do tasks during 8 sessions. Posttests were conducted immediately after treatment. An Independent samples and Paired samples t-test were run to analyze the data. The results demonstrate that jigsaw group outperformed listenand-do group in both reading comprehension skill and translation efficiently.