THE EFFECT OF SPEED READING TECHNIQUE ON STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION

English Language Teaching Journal, Vol.1, No.1 Juni 2017, ISSN. 2338-7548

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This study was conducted to investigate the effect of speed reading technique on students' ability in reading comprehension. This study applied experimental design. There were 30 students from two different classes used as samples for this study and classified by using random cluster sampling. There were two groups randomized to determine the experimental and control group. The technique of speed reading taught to the experimental group was skimming technique. While the control group was conventional technique. The instrument of the study was multiple choices questions with 50 items. The result of reliability showed 0.81 which is high. The t-observed is 4.25 while t-table is 1.67 at the level of significance ⍺ = 0.05 with the degree of freedom (df) 58. The findings showed that there was significant effect of Speed Reading Technique on Students’ Ability in Reading Comprehension which means the null hyphothesis (Ho) is totally rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.

Kata Kunci: Speed Reading Technique, Skimming, Reading Comprehension