?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=THE+USE+OF+SKIMMING+TECHNIQUE+TO+IMPROVE+STUDENTS%E2%80%99+READING+COMPREHENSION+OF+DESCRIPTIVE+TEXT+AT+GRADE+EIGHT+OF+SMP+IMMANUEL+BANDAR+LAMPUNG&rft.creator=Gideon+Setyo+Santoso%2C+1013042041&rft.subject=L+Education+(General)+%3D+Pendidikan+&rft.subject=PE+English&rft.description=The+objectives+of+this+research+were%3A+1)+to+find+out+if+there+is+any+significant+improvement+of+students%E2%80%99+reading+comprehension+of+descriptive+text+after+they+were+taught+through+skimming+technique%2C+2)+to+find+out+if+there+is+any+difference+between+students%E2%80%99+comprehension+in+reading+descriptive+text+before+and+after+they+were+taught+through+skimming+technique.%2C+3)+to+find+out+the+aspect+of+reading+comprehension+that+is+improved+the+most+after+being+taught+through+skimming+technique+in+descriptive+text%2C+and+4)+to+find+out+how+the+students%E2%80%99+response+is+after+they+were+taught+through+skimming+technique+in+descriptive+text.%0D%0AThis+was+a+quantitative+research+applying+one+group+pretest-posttest+design+based+on+the+experimental+class.+The+population+in+this+research+was+the+second%2Feighth+grade+students+of+SMP+Immanuel+Bandar+Lampung+in+the+academic+year+of+2015%2F2016.+The+samples+of+this+research+are+the+students+of+class+VIII+B+as+the+tryout+class+and+VIII+A+as+the+experimental+class.+In+collecting+the+data%2C+the+researcher+used+reading+comprehension+test+to+explore+the+students%E2%80%99+improvement+in+comprehending+descriptive+text+after+the+students+were+being+taught+through+skimming+technique+and+questionnaire+to+investigate+the+students%E2%80%99+response+towards+reading+comprehension+of+descriptive+text+using+skimming+technique.+The+researcher+utilized+paired+sample+t-test+to+analyze+the+data.%0D%0AThe+total+score+of+students%E2%80%99+reading+comprehension+test+increased+from+1%2C643+up+to+2%2C083+and+the+mean+score+increased+from+56.7+to+71.8.+It+was+also+found+that+it+is+found+that+the+t-ratio+is+higher+than+t-table+(16.652+%3E+2.042)+and+two-tailed+significant+showed+that+p+%3C+0.05+(p%3D0.000).++The+result+indicated+that+there+was+a+significant+difference+of+students%E2%80%99+reading+comprehension+achievement+after+being+taught+through+skimming+technique.+It+was+also+found+that+finding+main+idea+is+the+reading+comprehension+aspect+that+is+most+improved+after+being+taught+through+skimming+technique.+Based+on+the+data+obtained+from+the+questionnaire%2C+it+was+found+that+students%E2%80%99+response+towards+skimming+technique+is+positive.+The+researcher+suggested+that+future+researchers+should+analyze+the+use+of+skimming+technique+in+other+text+genres%2C+conduct+similar+research+at+different+levels+of+students%2C+and+conduct+similar+research+in+a+smaller+group+of+data+collecting+subject.%0D%0A&rft.publisher=TEACHER+TRAINING+AND+EDUCATION+FACULTY&rft.date=2017-06-14&rft.type=Skripsi&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F27417%2F1%2FABSTRACT.pdf&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F27417%2F2%2FA%2520SCRIPT%2520WITHOUT%2520DISCUSSION%2520CHAPTER.pdf&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F27417%2F3%2FFULL%2520SCRIPT.pdf&rft.identifier=++Gideon+Setyo+Santoso%2C+1013042041++(2017)+THE+USE+OF+SKIMMING+TECHNIQUE+TO+IMPROVE+STUDENTS%E2%80%99+READING+COMPREHENSION+OF+DESCRIPTIVE+TEXT+AT+GRADE+EIGHT+OF+SMP+IMMANUEL+BANDAR+LAMPUNG.++TEACHER+TRAINING+AND+EDUCATION+FACULTY%2C+LAMPUNG+UNIVERSITY.+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fdigilib.unila.ac.id%2F27417%2F