The Application of Skimming Technique in Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMP Negeri 1 Wongsorejo

Indriani, Devi Elfira (2024) The Application of Skimming Technique in Increasing Students’ Reading Comprehension at SMP Negeri 1 Wongsorejo. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Kiai Haji Achmad Shiddiq Jember.

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Abstract

This research is aimed to increased students’ reading comprehension by applying skimming technique in term of the reading text at eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wongsorejo. Increasing reading comprehension in reading text is the most important thing to do in learning English. Reading comprehension is the ability to understand the meaning and integrate the knowledge that the readers already knows. Based on the preliminary study of this research, the students have difficulty understanding the meaning of the reading text, lack of vocabulary and less interest in learning English. Therefore, the students need learning activities that can make the students interest learning English especially in reading text.
​The formulation of this research question was “How is the application of skimming technique able to increase students’ reading comprehension at SMP Negeri 1 Wongsorejo?” and the objective of this research is to examine how the application of skimming technique is able to increase students’ reading comprehension at eight grade of SMP Negeri 1 Wongsorejo.
​The researcher used the classroom action research. There are several steps in classroom action research include as plan, action, observation, and reflection. This research was conducted in two cycles. Each cycle consists of two meetings. The data was collected by using two methods at once, such as qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data were collected based on the observation. While quantitative data were collected based on the student scores after pre-test and post-test given by the researcher.
​The research findings indicated that skimming technique was effective to increase students’ reading comprehension. The result of the collected data indicated that, there was development after 2 cycles. The mean score of the test in cycle 2 (84) was higher than the mean score of the test in cycle 1 (67). It means that there was significance difference between the students’ reading comprehension before and after applying skimming technique in reading text. Based on the research finding and discussion, the researcher concluded that the application of skimming technique was effectively could increase the students’ reading comprehension.

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