Factors Affecting Reading Speed

3. Techniques of Reading Speed

As discussed before, reading speed is not only reading rapidly, it is kind or reading skill about how to manage the information, and as many other skill it skill must be practiced regularly. In the effort of managing the information, people usually use some techniques in it. There are lots of techniques that could be learned to help us reading faster. According to Nuttal, there are three techniques of reading speed that especially well, those are as follows: a. Preview; preview technique usually used to get the general idea of a heavy reading. b. Skimming and Scanning; Skimming refers to reading quickly to gain a general idea and not the specific information. While scanning is usually used to search some specific information, and skip other information. c. Clustering; Clustering is a technique of reading speed that train to look at groups of words instead of one at a time to increase reading speed. 49 According to the explanation above, the writer concludes that there are lots of various techniques in order to improve someone’s ability in reading speed and those techniques used depends on the purpose of reading itself. If someone wanted to get the general information from the heavy reading text, he or she can use previous technique. Moreover, if the reader wanted to get the main idea of a text, he or she can use skimming technique, while scanning used if the reader has a limited time and only search for the detail information of the text. In another way, reader can also used clustering technique in order to increase their reading speed, but mostly clustering used for someone who already has a better comprehension and reading vocabulary, because this technique need a higher concentration and train the reader to read a text in the whole group of words. 49 Nuttal, op. cit., p.93. There are any other techniques are able to use in order to improve reading speed instead of some techniques mention above by the writer. In this case, the writer mentions only some of them that commonly used to improve reading speed.

E. The Previous Study

There are three previous studies that the writer takes related to her research. They are Ika Rosika, Ichwan Setiadi and Maidah. The Correl ation between Students’ Interest in Reading and Reading Speed, The Effect of Reading Speed Software and Students’ Reading Comprehension and The Correlation between Students’ Reading Comprehension and Intelligent Quotation IQ. The first previous study is about students’ interest hobby in reading and the correlation to their speed reading achievement. This research tried to find out whether students’ who have an interest in reading also good in their speed reading. The result of this research is the students’ interest influenced their reading speed. 50 The second study is about the influence of speed reading software towards students’ achievement in their reading speed, a study case in SMAN Tangerang. This research tried to find out whether the reading speed software gave the positive effect to the students reading comprehension. The result of this study is reading speed software affected about 0 students’ comprehension in reading. 51 The last previous study the writer found was about the correlation between students Intelligent Quotation IQ and their reading comprehension, a correlational study at Madrasah Aliyah Pembangunan. This research focused on the correlation between students Intelligent Quotient IQ scores and their reading comprehension scores, whether students’ Intelligent Quotient influence their reading comprehension. 50 Ika Rosika, “The Correlation between Students’ Interest in Reading and Reading Speed,” Skripsi of The Degree of Strata I UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta , 2010, p. 42, unpublished. 51 Ichwan Setiadi, “The Effect of Reading Speed Software and Students’ Reading Comprehension ”, Skripsi of the Degree of Strata I UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2009, p. 43, unpublished. The result of this research that Intelligent Quotation strongly influenced students’ comprehension in reading, the calculation result is about 0, 72 which means that it strongly correlated. 52 The previous studies above can be a good reference for the writer in doing her research. She will compare the result of the research to the writer’s research, the writer’s research itself will focused on finding out the relationship between motivation in reading and reading speed. Besides the reading speed and its comprehension, the writer will also focus on the motivation that mostly affected students to read. 52 Maidah, “The Correlation between Students’ Intelligent Quotation IQ and Reading Comprehension”, Skripsi of the Degree of Strata I UIN Sarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Jakarta, 2009, p. 39. 32

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter presents place and time of the research, method of the research, population and sampling, research instrument, technique of data collecting, and technique of data analysis.

A. The Time and Place of the Research

The place of this research was conducted at Department of English Education, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teachers ’ Training; „Syarif Hidayatullah’ State Islamic University located at Jl. Ir H. Juanda no 54. Post Code 15412 Ciputat, South Tangerang, Banten. The time of this research was started on May 02 nd 2013 until May 06 th 2013.

B. Method of the Research

The method used in this study is a quantitative research, because the writer tried to describe and to test the relationship, it also presented the findings in a numerical form, and analyze through the use of statistics. “Quantitative research is an objective and systematic processes in which numerical data are used and interpreted to obtain information about the world.” 1 The research design used by the writer is correlational study; it is an experimental study which will test the relationship between two variables. In quantitative research, the writer builds hypothesis to be proved. The writer analyzed the research by using Pearson Correlation Product Moment to know the result. For completing the data, the writer used two kinds of research; library research and field research. In library research, the writer observed and read some books in some libraries to support this paper. In field ` 1 Ronald E. Walpole, Qualitative and Quantitative Research for Education 5th Edition An Introduction to Theories and Methods, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc., 2006, p. 274.