Atri Boru Pengarang JOSUA BIRE Dosen Pembimbing 1 SANTRI EMILIN PINGSABOI DJAHIMO Dosen Pembimbing 2 Josua Bire Ketua Penguji Santri Emilin Pingsaboi Djahimo Penguji 1 Tans Feliks Penguji 1

Reading skill is one of the four important skills in English. This skill should be taken into account in teaching learning process. However, the phenomenon existing in school clearly shows that students have difficulties in learning reading skills. The undertaking of the present classroom action research was mainly intended to figure out whether scanning technique can improve the subjects’ reading skill. The subjects of this study were the first semester students of Englis Study Program of Nusa Cendana University in academic year 2022/2023 that consisted of 23 males and 13 females. Based on the pre-test which was carried out in the pre-cycle, the mean score of the students was 54.66. It pointed out that the subjects’ ability in reading descriptive text was categorized as sufficient. This study was then carried out through implementing tell scanning technique in two cycles. The result of the post-test I was 75.11 and 82.5 in cycle II. It obviously showed that there was significant improvement concerning the subjects’ ability in reading descriptive text in which it improved from the level of sufficient to good. This research furthermore showed that there was changing learning behavior as the result of the positive responses concerning the technique applied in improving the subjects’ reading skill. As a summary, this present study proved that scanning technique could improve reading skill of the first semester students of English Study Program of Nusa Cendana University in Academic year 2022/2023; in addition, the subjects also responded positively the implementation of Scanning Technique. Keywords: Reading, descriptive Text, Scanning Technique.