Teacher’s Strategies in Teaching Writing Recount Text at SMP GAJAH MADA MEDAN

The aims of this study were to investigate teacher’s strategies in teaching writing
recount text at SMP GAJAH MADA MEDAN and to discover the reasons on why
teacher implemented that teaching strategies the way he did in an online class. The
method of this research was qualitative research. The technique of data collection in
this research were observation and interview. The research finding showed that the
teacher applied two strategies in teahing writing namely Shared Writing Strategy and
Guided Wring Strategy. According to the teacher, the reasons for using Shared
Writing Strategy and Guided Writing Strategy are these strategies are suitable and
effective to overcome students difficulties in writing especially in an online class that
more complicated than face to face learning. Both of these strategies also made the
students easily to understand the lesson and become more independent to write their
own recount text.