Lusianti, Lusianti (2024) The Implementation of Using Scanning Technique To Improve Students` Reading Skills Of The Eighth Grade At SMP N 4 Natar. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Metro.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research was to know whether using Scanning Technique to improve student’s reading skill. The focus on this research is reading skill of English students SMP N 4 Natar. It is related to the problem identification that the students have difficulties and less motivation in reading skill. Using Scanning Technique can be alternated in order to build the student’s active toimprove students’ reading skill.

The kind of this research was classroom action research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of planning, acting, observing and reflecting. In this research the students were given pre test before treatment and post test after treatment. The subject of this research was 31 students in class VIII B of SMP N 4 Natar. In collecting the data the researcher used test (pre test, post test 1 cycle 1 and post test 2 cycle 2), observation, field note, and documentation.

The results of this research indicate an increase in reading skill of English students at the VIII grade of SMPN 4 Natar. This can be seen from the increase in the average score of students in the pre-test and post-test. In the pre-test, the students average score was 60.69, and in the post-test I the average score increased to 71.12, and in the post-test II the average score increased to 78.28. And based on this result, it can be concluded that the Scanning Technique is one of the technique that can improve students' reading skill, and this research can be said to be successful because the specified criteria are well achieved.
Keywords: Classroom Action Research, Reading Skill, Scanning Technique

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