TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING WRITING DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

This research aimed to describe the teacher’s strategies in teaching writing descriptive text and to describe the problems faced by the teacher. It was conducted by using descriptive qualitative research design. The subject of this research was one English teacher of SMA Swasta RK Serdang Murni Lubuk Pakam. The data of this research were the teacher’s language and the activities while teaching writing descriptive text which were collected by video recording. The results of the analysis showed that the teacher applied seven strategies in teaching writing descriptive text, they were (1) modify comprehensible input, (2) make lesson visual, (3) link new information, (4) determine key concepts, (5) modify vocabulary instruction, (6) use cooperative learning strategies, and (7) modify testing. And the problems faced by the teacher were the lack of students’ vocabularies and participation in group work.