AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION IN SECONDARY SCHOOL

Abstract

This research was conducted to find out what strategies that teachers use
for teaching reading comprehension in MAN abc Banyuwangi. This
research used descriptive qualitative method. In the implementation of
this study the researcher conducted interviews and document analysis to
obtained relevant data to answer the objectives of this research. This
research was conducted at MAN abc Banyuwangi and two English
teachers were selected as samples in this study. Based on the results of the
interview with two English teachers, the data obtained is the teachers
using different strategy in teaching reading comprehension. The first
teacher use Scaffolding strategy while the second teacher use peer
teaching. Scaffolding strategy can develop ideas that students can read.
Peer teaching can develop student’s mentality also reading
comprehension ability. These strategies should be selected on the basis of
their suitability and effectiveness with the learning process so that their
use will allow teachers to explore students' ideas and help them read in a
better way. Based on the interview analysis, the reason why the teacher
uses this type of strategy in students' reading comprehension is because
to make students understand the text and guide students to focus more
on the text.