TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH SCANNING TECHNIQUE

One of the strategies which is considered applicable to teach students’ reading comprehension is scanning technique. Therefore, this research was intended to find out whether there was a significant difference of students’ reading comprehension achievement in identifying the specific information after being taught through scanning technique. This research was conducted at SMPN 5 Bandar Lampung. The population of this research was the second year students. The students were given three treatments. As the instrument, the researcher used objective reading test, that is, multiple choice test. Repeated Measures t-test was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing was computed using SPSS version 15.0 at the level significant of .05. Based on the calculation of t-test, the result shows that there is significant increase on students’ reading comprehension after being taught through scanning technique (p.05, p=.000), with the increase of mean point in pretest and posttest was 21.17. Keywords: reading comprehension, scanning technique, specific information.