Teaching Reading Comprehension of Narrative Text to the Tenth Grade Students

This study aimed to describe how the teachers taught reading
comprehension of narrative text to the tenth grade students and to reveal the
reasons of why the teahers did that ways. This study was conducted by using
descriptive qualitative research design. The source of the data in this research
were the two English teachers of SMA N 1 Onanrunggu. The data in this research
were teachers’ statement in the relation to their way of teaching reading
comprehension. Technique of collecting data were observation and interview. The
data were analyzed by using interactive model which were data condensation, data
display, and conclusion drawing. The result of this study showed that the teaching
of narrative text was conducted in two main ways, there were (1) by structuring
the classroom interaction into opening activity, main instructional activity, and
closing activity, and by (2) treating the four aspects of narrative text, which were
definition, social function, generic structure and language features. The
underlying reason of the teachers’ ways in teaching reading comprehension due to
the four reasons. The teachers more focused on teaching the characteristics of
narrative text as a genre rather than on enabling the students’ skill on reading
comprehenion.