A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON READING SPEED ABILITY OF THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMUN I NGANJUK IN THE 1999 / 2000 ACADEMIC YEAR

Abstract

The Senior High School students often complained when they face amount of reading passages because they did not have enough time to firush their reading assignment. Therefore, the students should apply effective reading technique to overcome their weakness in reading skill. The techniques were called skimming and scanning. By skimming, the reader just need to find the gist of the text, and by scanning the readers just need to search the specific information of the text. The general problem of this research was: how is the reading speed ability of the second year students of SMUN I Nganjuk? The specific problems of this research were: how is the reading speed ability by using skimming of the second year student of SMUN I Nganjuk ? and how is the reading speed ability by using scanning of the second year students of SMUN l Nganjuk?. The purpose of the research was to describe the reading speed ability of the second year students of SMUN INganjuk. The research design was descriptive study. The respondent determination method was proportional random sampling with 54 students of the second year of SMUN I Nganjuk as the respondents. The research results showed that students' ability on reading speed was 63 % or normal. The students' reading speed by using skimming technique was 69 % or normal. The students' reading speed ability by using scanning technique was 56 % or normal. Based on the research result, it is suggested that the English teacher give more portions in promoting the use of reading technique, especially in the using of skimming and scanning techniques to make their students to be an efficient readers.