4 mastering reading technique the writer interests in doing further investigation
about students’ reading comprehension achievement between students who are taught by using Scanning technique.
B. Identification of the problems
In line with the background previously described the researcher states the problems, the researcher identifies the problem on SMAN 3 Kotabumias follows:
1. The students do not have high motivation to read more because they have lack
of vocabularies 2.
The students do not have a variety of reading textbooks 3.
The teachers do not develop variety skills in reading 4.
The students do not pay attention to teacher’s explanation 5.
The teacher should give trick like game in attract students’ interest. 6.
English Club in that school does not actively run 7.
The students think that English is not an important subject because it is not applied in social interactions.
C. Limitation of the problems
In line with the identification of problems, this study will focus only on Scanning technique in improving students’ reading comprehension achievement and the
subject is the 10
th
grader of Senior High School students.
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D. Formulation of the Problem
In reference to the background above, the following problems are formulated that is “Is scanning technique effective to improve the students’ reading
comprehension achievement ”?
E. Objectives of the Research
In relation of the formulation of the problem, the objective of the research is to find out whether scanning skill effective
in improving students’ reading comprehension achievement.
F. Uses of the Research
Hopefully, this study can be used:
a Theoretically,the result of this research is expected to confirm the previous
theories of teaching reading by using Scanning technique. b
Practically, the result gives information to the English teachers especially in Senior High Schools, that Scanning technique is needed to
increase students’ reading comprehension.
G. Definition of Terms
Here are definitions used in this study presented in order to avoid miss- interpretation concerning certain terms used in this research, they are:
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a. According to Clark and Silberstein 1987 Reading comprehensionis an active
process of interacting with print and monitoring comprehension to establish meaning.
b. Vaezi 2006:5 states that Scanning technique is technique in reading rapidly
to find a specific piece of information. That statement is also supported by Nuttal 1982:34 says that scanning means glancing rapidly through the text
either to search for a specific piece of information e.g. a name, a date or to get an initial impression of whether the text is suitable for given purpose.
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II. LITERATURE REVIEW
This chapter deals with two major points, that is, the review of the previous research and review of the related literature.
A. Review for the Previous Research
The writer is interested in discussing previous research that investigated the scanning technique because she wants to see what had been gotten by the previous
researches and what kind of problems which are still unsolved. According to Hughes 1989 scanning and skimming are macro techniques, the writer take
scanning technique from 21 others techniques to be more investigated of the previous research. There have been some researchers that had investigated
scanning techniques in reading. 1.
From the research that had been conducted by Permadi 2008 from UPI Bandung which was aimed to find out the effectiveness of skimming and
scanning techniques in comprehending the text. This study used a quassi experimental method which was conducted in SMA Laboratorium
percontohan UPI for a month. Pre test, treatment and post test served as a research design in this study. In the result shows that the using of
skimming
8 and scanning techniques are effective in improving students reading
ability. Enhance students and teacher knowledge related to reading techniques and developing students and teacher creativity in the teaching
learning process of reading. 2.
Based on the previous research that Sugiati 2009 from Lampung University carried out, it was found that there is significant increase on
students reading comprehension after being taught through scanning and skimming techniques. This research was conducted at the second year
students. The study investigated the use of scanning and skimming techniques
in increasing students’ reading comprehension achievement especially in identifying specific information such as finding certain
information main ideas from the texts and gathering the general description from the content of the texts.
3. The other research was made by Rosmiati 2010 from UPI Bandung. She
investigated the effectiveness of scanning in teaching reading. The study took two group, control and experimental group and T-test design was
used. The study shows that scanning technique is considered effective in improving students’ reading comprehension. It is indicated by the score of
posttest.
Apparently, Permadi and Sugiati did not get the result about which was the better skill between skimming and scanning technique. They only stated that skimming
and scanning technique were good techniques in gaining students’ reading
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those techniques.
B. Review of the Related Literature
