TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT TO THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA IN MEDAN

This study aimed at describing how the teachers teach reading comprehension of
analytical exposition text to the eleventh grade students of SMA in Medan and
revealing the underlying reasons of why they do that way. This study was
conducted by using descriptive qualitative research design. The subjects of this
study were two English teachers who taught at the eleventh grade students of two
SMA in Medan they were: SMA Negeri 4 and SMA Negeri 12 in academic year
2016/2017. The data were the recorded utterances of the teachers and the students
during the teaching reading process and the transcript of the interview which were
collected by observing, tape recording, and interviewing and analysed by using
Miles and Huberman technique. The findings of the study showed most of the
teachers’ ways did not focusing on teaching reading comprehension but rather
focusing on teaching the knowledge of genre because they did not provide the use
of text structure knowledge which is considered as a help to enhance
comprehension. All the underlying reasons of the teachers’ ways in teaching
reading comprehension of analytical exposition text did not facilitate
comprehension. It was due to the misperception of the concept of teaching reading
comprehension.