The Effectiveness of Speed Reading as Technique in Teaching Reading Comprehension of Tenth Grade at MA. Sunan Cendana Madura

Abstract

The research is to examine: (1) To know the students’ achievement using speed reading technique in teaching reading comprehension of tenth grade at MA Sunan Cendana Madura. The research is carried out at MA Sunan Cendana Madura, in April 2019. The method uses is an experimental study. The population are the tenth grade of MA. Sunan Cendana Madura. The result shows that the average pretest score of each group is different. The pretest score of the experimental group is 61.36 and control group is 44.35. Then, the post-test average rating of the experimental group is 87,27 and the control group is 56,52. And from several calculations of ANCOVA, it is found out that the value of F is 33,18. The F critical with df 43 at 0.01 level of significance is 7,08. It means that F value is higher than F critical score. So, from the result of data analysis, it shows that: (1) speed reading technique is more effective than the conventional method to teach reading comprehension for the students of the tenth grade of MA Sunan Cendana Madura in the academic year of 2018/2019. Thus, it could be conducted that speed reading technique is an effective technique to teach reading comprehension. Therefore, the English teachers are recommended to apply the scanning and skimming method of speed reading technique in the classroom at the language learning processed

Keywords

• effect, reading, teaching reading comprehension, speed reading