TEACHERS’ BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM PROCESS OF TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION

This research deals with the classroom process during teaching reading comprehension. The objective of the research were to describe teachers do during the teaching of reading comprehension and the reason why do they do the way they do. This research conducted qualitative method. The data were obtained from the observation and interview. The data collected were analyzed by applying interactive model of Miles and Huberman. The location of this research was SMA Negeri 1,2,3 and 4 Tebing Tinggi. The result of the data analysis showed that there are 96 verbal behaviors the teacher performed in the classroom process, and these behaviors take place in 26 steps. The verbal behaviors lies not yet focused on enabling the students to be independent or skillful readers. Most of the behaviors are devoted to other aspects than aspects of teaching reading comprehension like text structure, managing class, translation, and pronunciation. And the underlying reason of teachers’ behavior in teaching reading comprehension was due to the five reasons, they are; (1) their belief on the knowledge of genre or the text structure, (2) their belief on the function of translation in teaching reading comprehension, (3) their belief on the indicator of text comprehension, (4) their belief on the function of oral reading text, (5) their belief on the function of classroom management to facilitate their concentration in reading text.All the underlying reasons of the teachers’ behavior in the teaching of reading comprehension cannot develop the students to be independent or skillful readers. It can be concluded that teachers do not really know what to teach and how to teach reading comprehension. So, it is suggested that the teaching of text structure knowledge should not be limited to the two points (master text structure and familiar to the example of text structure) only, but it should also enable students to use the knowledge to make their reading comprehension better. Finally for the further researcher it wished to point out the students’ comprehension related to the teacher’s behavior to get deeper findings such as knowing the reality of teaching reading comprehension in students and teachers sight in order to find out the best strategy and media to develop teaching reading comprehension for the senior high school students.