Physiologically differences are related to the physical and sensory. Psychologically differences are related to the interests, level of intelligence, talent, motivation and cognitive ability.

Based on the background, the researcher wanted to explore whether there is a difference between students' reading comprehension abilities of male and female by using skimming techniques and what difficulties they faced by male and female students.

Is there any difference in reading comprehension ability between male and female students by using skimming technique?

What are the difficulties faced by male and female students in reading comprehension ability by using skimming technique?

Reading Reading Comprehension Purpose of Reading Skimming Technique Gender

This study is aimed to : Discover the difference in reading comprehension ability

between male and female students by using skimming technique.

Reveal the difficulties faced by male and female students in reading comprehension ability by using skimming technique.

There were 28 students, namely 14 female students and 14 male students.

In order to achieve the aims of the research used a descriptive study.

1) DIFFERENCE IN READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS BY USING SKIMMING TECHNIQUE

The mean of female is 8.28 while the mean of male is 7.35. The standard deviation of female is 1.46 and the standard deviation of male is 1.78. The researcher obtained the standard error of the difference between means (SDbM ) of the female and male students is 0.49. Then t-test explained the difference of female and male students in reading comprehension ability by using skimming technique for about 1.89.

Db=df=degree of freedom = Nx + Ny – 2 = 26. Based on table t value with df = 26 and the significance level of 5%, t table = 2. 056. T value (obtained = 1. 89) is smaller than t table.

2) DIFFICULTIES FACED BY MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS IN READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY BY USING SKIMMING TECHNIQUE

57% female students are not used to reading the first sentence of each paragraph and 14% female students never pay attention to pictures, graphics and so on that exist in the text.

36% male students never read the conclusion to obtain general information on a text. Second, 29% male students never notice the words in bold in the text. The smallest difficulty is that 21% male students never pay attention to images, and graphics in the text. It also occured to 21% male students that are not used to reading the first sentence of each paragraph.

1. There is no difference in reading comprehension ability between male and female students by using skimming technique.

2. The students who had difficulties in reading by using skimming technique both male and female students are because they did not carry out the entire strategies of skimming technique correctly at the time of reading, while others did not have trouble because they carried out a whole strategies of skimming technique correctly.

The researcher suggests teaching the skimming technique in teaching reading, especially to familiarize students to read quickly to obtain the main idea of text without having to read the entire text, shorten the time and to train the students' reading comprehension.

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