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.