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The Terrible Sunday Last week was a terrible day for me. My cousins and I played football in
front of the house. We played the football because I had a new ball. Firstly, it was really fun. We played the football happily. I kicked the ball
too strong. So, the ball hit a window. The window broke. My cousins and I wanted to leave it.
Suddenly, we heard a loud voice from the house. The owner of the house came out from the house. She yelled at us. We were afraid of her, but we did not
know what to do. Then, one of my cousins asked us to run away. We ran away. Suddenly we heard a dog’s bark. Then, we knew that the owner of the house
allowed his dog to chase us.
We tried to run as fast as we could. However, I fell down. So, the dog caught me. He bite my leg. It was really painful. Then, the dog ran back into the
house. My cousins took me to the doctor. They told my parents about what
happened. The doctor said that I was exposed to rabies. Then, I was hospitalized for eight days.
That was a terrible day for me. I hope it will not happen anymore. adapted from: http:fujianto21-chikafe.blogspot.com2013115-contoh-singkat-
recount-text-bahasa.html
Question: What can we conclude from the text? a.
The writer had a terrible day. b.
The writer played football. c.
The writer and his cousins were mad. d.
The writer loved dog. Answer: a. The writer had a terrible day.
2.3 Techniques in Teaching Reading
There are some techniques of teaching reading comprehension. The techniques are provided as a bridge to link the students’ problem in
comprehension and to overcome it. The techniques will be explained in the following parts.
1.3.1 Skimming and Scanning Techniques
Skimming is reading rapidly and selectively, but purposefully, rather than carefully, to get an overview of what the material is about Crawley and Merritt
2000:101. The reader reads the text quickly to get an idea on the general content
Gibbons, 2002:87. It means skimming is used to get the gist of the text. Moreover, if the readers do not have much time to read a text but he wants to
know the general information from the text, this technique can be applied in reading.
Scanning is reading very quickly to find a specific piece of information, such as the answer to a specific question Crawley and Merritt, 2000:101. A
readers do not need to read every word on the text to locate an answer. Stay in line with this idea, Bates 2000:20 says a scanning technique is a technique in reading
to look quickly and hard reading at all. It means the reader only reads the specific information that he needs. Therefore, the reader can use scanning technique to
find out the specific information from the text.
1.3.2 SQ3R
SQ3R is a technique designed to help process and increase students engagement with the text. According to Wright 2003 SQ3R stand for Survey
– Question
– Read – Recite – Review. This technique is used to be able to understand what we read and recall it when we need it The Learning Centre,
2011 .
1.3.3 Critical reading
Critical reading is understanding how ideas have been arrived at, and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses The Learning Centre, 2011.
According to Pavel 2008 critical reading is reader is not only read the text but the reader have to interact with the text by questioning, responding to the text, and
expanding it, usually in writing. Further, by using critical reading, the reader be an active reader since the reader is not only rec
ognize the writer’s purpose but also recognize values in the passage.
1.3.4 Intensive reading
Intensive reading is a reading technique for a high degree of comprehension and retention over a long period of time. Ueta 2005 points out intensive reading
is intended to grasp the whole message of the text, including both arguments and supporting details, encourage careful, literal processing of the text. In this reading
the reader reads the text to get knowledge or analysis Pattel, 2008:118. The principles of intensive reading are overview, planning purpose, questions, reading,
summarizing, testing, and understanding. This research used skimming and scanning techniques to comprehend the
reading text. The students used those techniques to comprehend the text. The students used skimming technique to find the general information from the text.
The general information consists of paragraph comprehension and text comprehension. Meanwhile, the scanning technique was used to find the specific
information from the text. The specific information consists of word comprehension and sentence comprehension.
2.4 The Use of Skimming and Scanning Techniques to Improve Reading
