Student’ perception on skimming and scanning in the reading class
Daftar Isi:
- The study is mainly conducted in order to find out the students’ perception on skimming and scanning reading techniques in the reading class with an additional research question of students’ opinion on teachers teaching those reading techniques. This study is a descriptive study using a survey design. The instrument being used in collecting the data is questionnaire containing the Likert scale with five-point agreementscale to measure respondents' agreement with variousstatements, continued with interview session with the respondents with contradictory responses from the questionnaire. Here, the contradiction is when the respondents responded challenging but having no problem in comprehending the reading text. The subject of the study is forty-nine English Department students in the academic year of 2017/2018 who have passed the Reading D class. The result of this study based on the questionnaire is that most of the English Department students have positive or good perception towards skimming and scanning reading techniques. While based on the interview, some respondentsshow confusion between challenging and comprehension in reading a text