THE USE OF GENRE IN THE TEACHING OF READING COMPREHENSION BY TEACHERS WITH DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

The aims of this study were to discover the ways of the English teachers with teaching English educational background use genre in the teaching of reading comprehension, to find out the ways of the English teachers with Language and Literature educational background use genre in the teaching of reading comprehension, and to find out the reasons of the ways they teach. English teachers observed consist of two different educational background. Three of them with teaching English educational background, three of them with English Language and Literature educational background. They are women at the age of thirty to forty years old. The data in this study were analyzed by applying Miles & Huberman (1984); 1) data reduction, 2) data display, and 3) verification or conclusion drawing. The results of the data analyses; The English teachers with teaching English educational background use all of the generic structure of each genre in the teaching of reading comprehension by raising questions to find out the students reading comprehension. The use of genre in the teaching of reading comprehension was misleading except to judge the importance of what they read. They did it in order to find out the students reading comprehension of a text The English teachers with language and literature education background use all the generic structure of each genre in the teaching of reading comprehension by explaining the generic structure with bilingualism, and make questions to match the generic structures of genre in the text. The use of genre in the teaching of reading comprehension was misperceptive. They just decided those items in the text to examine the students reading comprehension. It is implied that the teachers should know the use of genre in the teaching of reading comprehension to get the expected meaning culturally, thus it is suggested that the teachers need to get meaning of text through out cultures and ask the students to apply it in their community.