THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SKIMMING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENT’S READING COMPREHENSION OF 10TH GRADE STUDENTS OF TOURISM DEPARTMENT IN SMKS NW SANGGENG IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2022/2023

Abstract

This research aims to 1). To identify the influence of the skimming technique on students' reading comprehension. 2). To determine how much improvement in students' descriptive text comprehension ability after learning to use the skimming technique. This type of research is experimental research, specifically pre-experimental research using the One Group Pre-test Post-test Design. The population is 39 students in class X tourism in semester 1. The sampling technique used is simple random sampling, and the instrument used is multiple choice consisting of 20 questions. The test results were the average pre-test and post-test scores of 20 students. The average pre-test score is 52.25 with the lowest score of 35, the highest score of 75, and the average post-test score is 74.50 with the lowest score of 55, the highest score of 90. The results of the data analysis were calculated using the t-test in both tests with a significance of 5% and obtained a T-count of 8,468, and a T table of 1,729, that means that H0 was rejected and Ha become accepted, so it may be concluded that there has been a growth in students' reading comprehension in the application of the skimming method in class X.A SMK NW SANGGENG.