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php/jsr The Effect of Using Skimming Technique in Students Reading Comprehension to Find out Main Idea at The Ninth Grade of Mts TI Paninggahan Leni Fatimah1.
Loli Safitri2.
Widya Syafitri3.
Syahrul4 1,2,3,4 Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M.
Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi.
Indonesia Corresponding Author:
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ABSTRACT
Key Word This research was done due to several problems that found by the This research was aimed to find out the effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea on narrative text.
This research was conducted at the ninth grade of Mts Ti Paninggahan.
In this study, the researcher used quantitative method with pre-experimental design by comparing the studentsAo pre-test and post-test scores.
To determine the sample, the researcher used purposive sampling and choosed one class as experimental class.
The subject of this study ninth grade that consist of 18 students.
The data was analyzed using t-test formula.
The result shown that there were significant difference on the students reading comprehension to find out main idea after taught used skimming The students mean score of the post-test was 78,33, it is bigger than mean score of pre-test was 46,11.
The researcher used t-test formula by comparing score of pre-test and post-test through SPSS.
Based on the output statistic, the value of Sig .
-taile.
is 0,00 < 0,05.
means that Ha is accepted.
It means that the students who are taught using skimming technique is better than the students who are taught before using skimming technique.
In short, skimming technique has a significant effect on studentsAo reading comprehension to find out main idea on narrative text at Mts Ti Paninggahan.
Reading Comprehension.
Main Idea.
Skimming Technique.
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0 International License INTRODUCTION Students are categorized as succesful reader if they are able to comprehend the reading material.
In reading something, studentAos reading comprehension is one of the important things in order to catch the meaning based on what they have read.
comprehension is the act of understanding the text to improve the studentsAo ability in reading the text.
According to Brown, there are several aspects of reading comprehension that commonly used to measure studentsAo reading comprehension ability which are main idea, scanning for specifically, reference, vocabulary in context.
Education Achievment : Journal of Science and Research Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2024 Page 691-697 expression/idiom/phrase in context, inference, excluding facts not written, supporting Main idea as one of the crucial aspect in reading comprehension.
Main idea is what the most in formation the writer intent to share in the text.
Whereas, identifying main idea is important because main idea is like a key of the text so when the readers get the key then they will be easier to grab the information from the whole the text.
Moreover, in reading comprehension main idea always come first and deserve the top priority.
In addition, main idea is significant in reading comprehension because it is the point of the paragraph and the things that the author develops throughout the In other word by identifying main idea of an text, the students will be able to understand the contents contained in the text.
As stated by Crismore that knowing main idea has positive effects.
First, reader can be more easily to understand the text because main idea provides the reader with a chance to participate in reading process as an effective role player.
Second, knowing main idea can guide readers through a text and help them to organize content and enhance general ideas as they read.
Third, the main idea can increase the role of readers in reading comprehension process.
However, from all questions about reading comprehension mostly students can not answer the question about main idea.
There are numerous difficulties in students reading comprehension especially in find out main idea.
The first is from the studentsAo side is most of students had low score in reading exercise especially in finding main idea, the second is most of students did not know how to find out main idea of the text and did not know where the position of main idea and the third is from the teacherAos side, the technique of the teacher is not effective to solve the studentsAo problems in comprehendiong text to find out main idea.
For this reason, the teacher should find some effective strategy to increase studentsAo reading comprehension to find out main idea.
There are many strategies that might be used toward studentAos reading comprehension to find out main idea.
One of the strategies that might be used to improve studentAos reading comprehension to find out main idea by using skimming technique.
Skimming is one of effective technique that is useful to enhance the reading comprehension, that is a technique to look the gist of what the author is saying without a lot of detail.
As stated by Beale that skimming refers to looking only for the general or main idea.
The advantages of skimming technique is very useful in predicting what is going on in the text or even get the main idea of the text then make students answer the question quickly and exactly.
Therefore, to solve the above problems the researcher want to use skimming technique.
RESEARCH METHOD
The design of this research was experimental research because it has the purpose to know the effect of using skimming technique in reading comprehension to find out Education Achievment : Journal of Science and Research Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2024 Page 691-697 main idea narrative text.
Gay states that experimental research is the one of research method that can truly test the hypothesis concerning cause and effect relationshp.
There are two major classes of experimental designs, single-variable designs, which involved one independent variable, and factorial designs, which involve two or more independent variables.
Factorial designs are classified as pre-experimental, true experimental and quasi experimental.
In this case, the researcher choose the PreExperimental Design because in this design, the researcher controled some of variable which influence the process of the experimental.
This study aim to predict, confirm and test the hypothesis.
The type of research used in this study was experiment.
Experiment research is research that give the treatment to experiment subject and keep the control subject as the standard of comparison.
Gay said that experimental research is the only type of researcher that can test hypothesis to establish cause-effect relations.
Arikunto said that the purpose of experimental research is to know whether any cause or not of the treatment that gave to subject.
It means that experimental research is the research which tries to observe the cause-effect relationship.
This research was used one group of sample.
The population of this research was 38 students.
In this research the researcher used one class, as the experimental class.
For this research, the researcher used purposive sampling.
According to Margono, the purposive sampling is the selection of a group based on certain characteristic suitable with the need of the research.
The researcher choosed the class IX2 with 18 students as the sample concerning certain criteria that is suitable with the need of the research In this research, the instruments used English reading test.
The test was in the form of in multiple choices test.
The test consisted of 20 multiple choices items.
In constructing the test, the researcher consulted with the English teacher.
The pretest was used to know the students reading comprehension in finding main idea before doing the treatment.
However, the posttest was give after the treatment to know the students improvement.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Finding In this part, the data was collected by using SPSS formula.
Quantitative data described students reading comprehension to find out main idea as explanation of the research result below:
Education Achievment : Journal of Science and Research Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2024 Page 691-697 Based on the table of paired sample t-test above, it could be seen that t was 15.
and df .
egree of freedo.
was 17 with sig .
-taile.
was 0,000.
Based on t-table, it could be seen that t was higher than t table 0,05 with the significant t-table .
It means that null hypothesis (H.
was rejected and alternative hypothesis (H.
was accepted.
It could be concluded that there was significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea on narrative text at Mti Paninggahan.
In order to test the hypothesis, the researcher calculated the score of pre-test and post-test.
The hypothesis tested in this investigation are as follow:
The first hypothesis After finding the mean score, the standard deviation, and the value of the tobtained by using t-test on SPSS, the hypothesis was tested.
The hypothesis of this research was tested as follow:
: There is significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
: There is no significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
Ha means that there is significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
On the other hand.
Ho means there is no significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
The researcher used t-test formula to measure whether there the hypothesis was accepted or rejected by comparing the score of pre-test and post-test through SPSS.
From the score of pre-test and post-test it can be seen there is significant effect of using skimming technique in students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
It means Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected.
The second hypothesis The second hypothesis, is there any significant difference of the students reading comprehension to find out main idea before and after using skimming technique.
: Difference of students reading comprehension to find out main idea before and after using skimming technique.
: Students reading comprehension to find out main idea is not any difference before and after using skimming technique.
To measure the hypothesis would be accepted or rejected, the researcher used t-test formula through comparing the pre-test and post-test through SPSS.
Based on formula above, to find whether Ha accepted or rejected, the value of t obtained was compare with the value of the ttable, the descriptive hypothesis (H.
is accepted.
However, if the value of tobtained is same or less than the value of the ttable, the null hypothesis (H.
is accepted.
Education Achievment : Journal of Science and Research Volume 5 Issue 2 July 2024 Page 691-697 The third hypothesis The third hypothesis, do the students have better comprehension to find out main idea after taught by using skimming technique.
Ha : The students have better comprehension to find out main idea after taught by using skimming technique.
Ho : Students reading comprehension to find out main idea is not better after taught by using skimming technique.
To measure whether the hypothesis would be accepted or rejected, the researcher used t-test formula through comparing pre-test and post-test through SPSS.
From the calculation of the score of both tests, the mean score of post-test was 33 was higher than pre-test was 46.
After that, it was analyzed by using t-test with SPSS, and the result of the tobtained was 15.
278 on 17 degree of freedom and ttable 0,05 level of significant.
Through comparing the tobtained .
278 ) to the ttable .
on the same degree of freedom and level of significant, it was found that the value of t obtained was higher than value of ttable.
From the data above, it could be conclude that the hypothesis (H.
was accepted and null hypothesis (H.
was rejected because the value of t obtained > ttable, it can be conclude that the students who were taught by using skimming technique give better effect on students reading comprehension to find out main idea.
DISCUSSION