Ma’watul Hasanah Pengarang

The objective of the research is to know The Comparative Study of Scanning and Intensive Reading on Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension. The population of this research took population in the Tenth grade students of SMAN 24 Kabupaten Tangerang in academic year 2018/2019. The number of the tenth grade students is 379 students. Subject of this research are 74 students. The researcher used quasi experiment by using nonparametric test design. The data of independent variable (X) was collected through teaching with Scanning and Intensive reading, while the data dependent variable (Y) was collected from multiple choice test students reading comprehension skill (pre-test and post-test). The data analysis technique and testing hypothesis was done using nonparametric test by the Mann-Whitney. The result of hypothesis has been shows that the Sig. is 0.009 < 0.05, it means Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Thus, it can be said that there is intensive reading has significant effect than scanning on improving in teaching students’ reading comprehension. So, intensive reading is better on improving students’ reading comprehension. It can be concluded that, there is also difference effect between using intensive reading and scanning in teaching students’ reading comprehension. Therefore, it can be concluded from the data analysis in the research that there was a positive effect of the comparative study scanning and intensive reading on improving students’ reading comprehension at tenth grade in SMA Negeri 24 Kabupaten Tangerang.