IMPROVING STUDENTS’S READING COMPREHENSION ON DESCRIPTIVE TEXT BY USING SKIMMING TECHNIQUE
Abstract: This
research is on
intended to answer
the problem about
to know how well
the use of
skimming technique improves
students’ reading
comprehension on descriptive text
to the first
semester of the
tenth grade of SMA Negeri
2 Teluk Keramat in
the academic year
2013/2014. In this
research, Skimming technique
is reading technique in
which focused on
improve the students
reading comprehension on finding
out the main
idea, detail information,
vocabulary and inference
on descriptive text. This technique guided the students to comprehend
the information of descriptive text about
animals. This study
used classroom action
research method. The tools
of data collection
used reading test,
observation checklist, and
field note. On the
first and second
cycle the writer
used picture, text
and table as
helping technique. From the result of measurement test, the data show
that the students’ mean score on first
cycle was 60.11.
Then the second
cycle the students’ mean score
was 80.92. From the result of data analysis showed that students’ reading
comprehension on descriptive text by using skimming technique improved.
Author: Tri Wahyuni, Eusabinus
Bunau, Luwandi Suhartono
Journal Code: jppendidikangg150077
