The Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching Reading: A Classroom Observation Research at the Eleventh Grade of MA N Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe whether are the strategy in teaching
reading at eleventh grade students of MA N Purworejo in academic year 2016/2017. In
this research, the researcher took 2 teachers as the subject of the research. In the of
observation research, the research tried to analyze the teacher’s teaching strategy in
reading conducted by the teacher in the classroom to find out whether strategies were
used or not by the teacher.
The population of this research is the English teacher at MA N Purworejo. The
sample of this research is the English teachers of eleventh grade student at MA N
Purworejo. This is qualitative research, because the purpose is to get a picture and
information about the strategies used in the English language teacher especially about
reading skills. The writer uses two instruments, there are observation and interview. The
observation to get the data by closely watching and noticing classroom events and the
interview to support the observation, because the interview is a dialogue conducted by
information to get information from interviewed.
The researcher concluded: Teacher teach in IPS class. Teacher use three types,
there are guessing, scan the text and analyze vocabulary. Teacher combine three
strategies to teach in the classroom. Strategy often used is drilling and chants. Teacher
use type because many students are often difficult. Their vocabulary is limited.
Therefore the teacher uses this method for imitating and repeating word. Example : The
students repeated teacher after said the vocabulary. The teacher says one word and
meaning then the student repeated that word. Teacher teach in IPS class. Teacher use
three types, there are guessing, scan the text and analyze vocabulary. Teacher combines
three strategies to teach in the classroom. Strategy often used is scan the text. Teacher
use this strategy because to improve the vocabulary. Their pronunciation are low, so
make the student difficult to find the meaning of the text .Therefore the teacher use this
method to make the student improve their vocabulary. Example: teacher give text to the
student and the student find the meaning of the text and translate to Indonesian word.