Advantages and Disadvantages of Scanning Technique

Reading  through  scanning  technique  has  some  advantages  and  disadvantages.  It
can be explained as follows:
Advantages:
  The students are able to get the information quickly, directly and specifically.
  The students are trained to run their eyes over a text quickly in order to locate
specific information (Suparman, 2005: 55).
  The students are practiced to think of clues to find the specific information.
  The  students  are  stimulated  to  be  creative  and  active  in  both  asking  and
answering  the  question  about  specific  information  and  clues  related  to  the
texts (Beare, 2006: 3).
Disadvantages:
  Scanning means reading quickly, in this case sometimes the students ignore
to select which one the most important information.
  The students might not read all of the information as they just scanning  the
basic information.
The  researcher  assumes  that  scanning  is  a  possible  technique  for  students  to
applied in their reading. The students can be creative and active to think of clues
to  find  specific  information  of  the  text  their  reading.  Besides  identifying  the
specific  information,  the  students  are  trained  to  think  of  clues  for  the  detail
information. Needles to say, scanning technique can motivates them to be active
in finding the specific information in texts.