TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING WRITING RECOUNT TEXT AT GRADE 8th OF SMP GAJAH MADA MEDAN

This study was conducted to analyze the types of teacher’s strategies in teaching
writing recount text and to explore the process of applying teacher’s strategies in
teaching writing recount text at grade 8 of SMP Gajah Mada Medan. This study
used decriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research was one of the
English teacher at SMP Gajah Mada Medan. The instruments of this research were
observation, questionnaire, and interview questions. The results showed that the
teacher applied four strategies from five strategies by Saskatchewan (1991) in
teaching writing recount text, they were direct instruction strategy, indirect
instruction strategy, interactive instruction strategy and experiential strategy. Here
are the steps of applying each strategies : first, direct instruction strategy namely :
(1) preparation, (2) introduction, and (3) direct instruction. The second , indirect
instuction strategy namely : (1) facilitating discussions, (2) providing resources, and
(3) guiding and supporting. The third, interactive instruction strategy namely : (1)
select appropriate activities, (2) encourage participation, (3) create engaging
content, (4) assess learning (5) facilitate discussion, and (6) guiding and supporting.
The last, experiential strategy namely : (1) know your audience and (2)
conceptualize the experience. It is suggested for the teacher to use all typs of
teaching strategies because all of them are correlated.