Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Skimming Technique on News-Report Text (A Case Study at SMAN 4 Makassar) = Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Skimming Technique on News-Report Text (A Case Study at SMAN 4 Makassar)

WAHYU DWI SATRIO. Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Using Skimming Technique on News-Report Text (Supervised by Dra. Marleiny Radjuni, M.Ed. and Hidayatullah Yunus, S.S., M.Tesol.). The purpose of this study is to improve students’ reading comprehension skills by using skimming technique on news-report text. The research was carried out at SMAN 4 Makassar with 27 eleventh-grade students and 1 English teacher as the participants. This study adopts the experimental design, specifically the one-group pretest-posttest model. It utilizes a mixed-method approach to identify students' test results as well as to explore their perceptions of the study. The data collection procedures consist of an interview with the English teacher, a pre-test, and a post-test with 20 multiple-choice questions and 5 open-ended questions for students’ opinions before and after each test. The interview reveals the teacher’s teaching style in teaching reading. She employs intensive reading techniques and online material in her teaching process. To see students’ improvement after being given treatment, the average value of the pre-test and post-test are compared. The result shows an improvement in the mean score from 56.1 to 62 after the treatment. Thus, it concludes that students’ reading comprehension is improved. In addition, students’ responses regarding skimming technique are positive.

Keyword : reading comprehension