The Eighth-Grade Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability In Scanning And Skimming At One of the Middle Schools in Banjarmasin

Abstract

Reading is an interactive process between the reader and the written text. The purpose of reading itself is to get information from a text. In schools, many students still face difficulties in understanding what they read and sometimes they have limited time to finish their work in reading. The problem depends on how the students perform reading techniques, such as reading words one by one, or they read a text faster without comprehension. This situation means that the students still have a lack of ability in reading comprehension. This study describes the eight-grade students’ reading comprehension ability in scanning and skimming at SMPN 1 Batulicin academic year 2019/2020. The design is descriptive and quantitative. The research subjects are eighth-grade students in classes A and C at SMPN 1 Batulicin. The data were collected twice using multiple-choice tests of reading comprehension on descriptive text, narrative text, and recount text. The data were analyzed based on the student’s score criteria of very good (12.5%), good (20%), medium (12.5%), less (28.75%), and poor (26.25%). The less and poor criteria dominate and this condition is considered that the eighth-grade students’ ability in reading comprehension is low. Therefore, it is suggested to eighth-grade students at SMPN 1 Batulicin to practice and learn how to use reading techniques such as scanning and skimming.