Abstract

In teaching and learning reading in English, the comprehension towards the material is the main goal. The reality shows that the majority of the students encounter many problems in comprehending English texts. This research aims to figure out the effectiveness of pre-questioning and skimming techniques on students’ reading comprehension achievement on narrative text. The research was conducted quantitatively with quasi experimental as the design for the research. The samples were two classes with each class consist of 20 students, the Twelfth Grade Students of Senior High School Darussalam Sengkubang, Kalimantan Barat, and Indonesia. The writer used t-test to analyze the data. The writer put side by side the scores between the divided two classes, experimental class and control class. Based on the calculation, it was found that tcount value is 2.1253 and ttable value is 1.99947. The result of the data showed that the score of the experimental group was 76 and the control group was 72. The findings indicated that that Pre- questioning technique and Skimming techniques gave positive effect on students’ reading comprehension achievement. Base on this research, the teachers can use pre-questioning and skimming techniques when they teach because it was effectively to use when teaching on students’ reading comprehension.Keywords: effect, pre-questioning technique, skimming technique, reading comprehension achievement, narrative

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