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%T INCREASING STUDENTS? READING COMPREHENSION ACHIEVEMENT
THROUGH SCANNING AND SKIMMING TECHNIQUE AT GRADE VIII OF
SMP NEGERI 8 BANDARLAMPUNG, 2009
%X This research is conducted at the second year of SMPN 8 Bandar Lampung. One
of the objectives of teaching reading to the students is that the students are able to
comprehend the content of the text given. The study investigates the use of
scanning and skimming technique in increasing students reading comprehension
achievement especially in identifying specific information. In the process, the
students do some tasks that are given such as: finding certain information and
main ideas from the texts and gathering the general description from the content
of the texts.
The objective of this research is to find out whether or not; scanning and
skimming technique can be used to increase students? reading comprehension
achievement significantly. The study applied one group pretest posttest design.
The students were given four treatments. As the instrument, the researcher used
objective reading test, that is, multiple choice test that was administered in both
pretest and posttest.
Repeated Measures t-test was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing
was computed using SPSS version 15.0 at the level significant of .05. Based on
the calculation of t-test, the result shows that there is significant increase on
students? reading comprehension after being taught through scanning and
skimming technique (p<.05, p=.000), which can be seen from the mean score of
the pretest 53.00 to posttest 72.67 with the increase of 20.67. It indicates that
scanning technique could be used to increase students? reading comprehension in
identifying the specific information significantly. However, it is recommended
that the teacher should clearly explain about the types of the text to the students.
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