The Effect of Using Skimming and Scanning Techniques on the Eighth Grade

Abstract

This research was intended to know whether or not there was an effect of using skimming and scanning techniques on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of recount texts at SMPN 1 Silo Jember. The design of this research was experimental design. The respondents of the experimental and control group of this research were determined by using cluster random sampling by a lottery, that were class VIII B as the experimental group and VIII A as the control group. The data of this research were obtained by doing interview, documentation and administering the reading test. From the analysis of the data, it was known that the mean score of the experimental group was 55.78 and the mean score of the control group was 48.92. In the output of the t-test column, it was shown that the sig. value was 0.022. It was lower than 0.05. Thus, it means that the mean score of the two classes (experimental and control groups) were different. It means that there was a difference between the experimental class and the control class. In conclusion, the use of skimming and scanning techniques gave an effect on the eighth grade students’ reading comprehension achievement of recount texts at SMPN 1 Silo Jember