TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION OF ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION TEXT

This study investigated teacher’s strategies in teaching reading comprehension of
analytical exposition text. This study was conducted by using descriptive
qualitative method. The respondents of this research were one English teacher and
nineteen students of XI IPS 2 class in SMA Negeri 1 Bangun Purba. The
instrument for collecting the data was a video recorder and questionnaire
dissemination. The teacher was observed and recorded when applied teaching
strategies in reading comprehension of analytical exposition text. Meanwhile, the
students had to fill the questionnaire to state their problems towards the teacher’s
strategies in teaching reading comprehension of analytical exposition text. The
result indicated that the teacher implied general methods such as introducing text,
setting the reading purpose, skimming the text, translating the text, answering
question and identifying answer. Meanwhile, the most difficult strategy according
to the students was skimming text. There were 11 of 19 students who stated that
skimming text was difficult since they did not possess good vocabulary mastery.
The least difficult strategy was identifying answer. Based on the data, teacher
might need to improve the strategies to overcome students’ problems in reading
comprehension of analytical exposition text.