Submitted as Partial Fulfill of Requirements to Obtain Undergraduate (S1) Degree at English Education Study Program Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training

This research focuses on Students' Perception on Teacher’s Use of Summary
Technique at SMA Negeri 1 Muaro Jambi. Based on the preliminary research at the
tenth grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Muaro Jambi, the researcher found that the
students could not comprehend the meaning of texts in their text books at the school.
This problem was caused by some factors. For example, some of the students could
not understand about the content of reading text and identify the information of the
text. So, the researcher was interested in carrying out the research about this problem.
The objective of the research is to find out what are the Students' Perception on
Teacher’s Use of Summary Technique at SMA Negeri 1 Muaro Jambi. This research
uses a quantitative method in the form of a survey. This method is considered an
appropriate approach for this type of research. The subject of the research is the tenth
grade of SMA Negeri 1 Muaro Jambi. The instrument used in collecting data was a
questionnaire. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires to three
classes consist of 80 students. The research results showed that students had a neutral
perception by obtaining a Likert scale score of 39.5%. It can be concluded that the
summarize technique can be said to be good enough to continue to be used in learning.