Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Yuwanda Syahfira. 2022, Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching Reading Comprehension at seventh Grade in Banjarmasin. Sarjana Thesis. English Language Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Cayandrawati Sutiono, M.A, the second advisor : Raisa Fadilla, M.Pd.
Keywords: strengths, weaknesses, teacher’s strategies, teaching reading comprehension
Reading is a process when the reader makes meaning based on their knowledge and previous experience. Teaching reading in a country that English as a second language is very difficult especially in junior high school, because there are many differences between the first and second languages, because of that, the teachers need strategy to teach their students. Strategy is how the teacher teaches their student, hopefully with that way the student can be easy to receive the lesson.
This study used descriptive qualitative research method with 2 junior high schools in Banjarmasin as the participants. The instrument of this research is observation and interview. The observation was done 3 times each school and the interview was done one time each school.
The finding of this research was some strategies used the teachers in both school. They were KWL (Know – Want to know – Learn) for the offline school and drilling for the online school from the first school (teacher A). Then, the second school (teacher B), there were drilling, picture and picture, think pair and share for the offline class.The strategies have their own strengths and weaknesses. Therefore it suggested to involve the student to the class activity to make them more active.The researcher hope that it could provide the information about the strategies that the teacher used in teaching reading comprehension at seventh grade and may be as reference to improve the ability and understand about the strategy that used to teaching reading comprehension.
