Fatimah, Titin (2011) Increasing The Students Reading Comprehension Through Scanning And Skimming Technique At Smp Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

Reading as one of four language skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing) must be mastered by the students. Considering that English is the International language, English is widely taught at school in Indonesia, from elementary to university as a local content subject. But in reality we still find that most of them often have difficulties in reading, even though they have graduated from senior high school or courses.
The problems in this research are the students low motivation, low vocabulary and the teacher does not know the appropriate technique of teaching reading comprehension. These factors make the goal of the teaching not achieved.
The objective of this research were to know whether scanning and skimming
technique increase students’ reading comprehension, teacher’s performance and students’ activities in learning process during teaching learning process at ninth grader of SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. To see the teacher performance and students’ activities, the data collection method used observation sheet. Meanwhile, students’ score of test was used to know students comprehension in reading (learning product). This research was conducted at SMP Muhammadiyah 3 Metro. The subject of the research was students of class IX in academic year 2011/2012.
In this research, the researcher conducted classroom action research (CAR) was
done in two cycles. Between one cycle with the other is relationship. They are including Planning, Action, Observing, and Reflection. The data confirm that the result of cycle 2 (80.7%) is increase than cycle 1 (38.45%) and pre-test (7.7%).
Referring the result of the research, it can be concluded that scanning and skimming
technique can increase students’ reading comprehension.

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