ABSTRACT

Aziza, Dwita Nur 2019. The Strategies of Teaching in Reading Comprehension at  SMP  Muhammadiyah 1 Banjarmasin. Sarjana’s Thesis.English Department, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangurat Universiy, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Fatchul Mu’in, M.Hum., the second advisor: Asmi Rusmanayanti, S.Pd, M.Sc

Keywords: Teaching Strategies, Reading Comprehension.

            Teaching-learning process cannot be separated from strategies of teaching. The strategies of teaching are important components of teaching and learning process to build students’ ability in reading. Through strategy in teaching reading to make students interested to learning reading. The problem of this study are focused on how is the implementation of teaching strategies and what strategies are the teacher used in reading comprehension in reading comprehension at SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Banjarmasin. The research objective are to describe the implementation of teaching strategies in reading comprehension and find out the teacher’s strategies used in teaching reading comprehension. This research used descriptive qualitative method. The subject of this research is 75 students consist of three classes and one English teacher. The instruments of this research are observation and interview. The result of the research showed that the teacher used group discussion; is used to answer the questions based on their read in a group. Gallery walk; is used for the students after they finished see the pictures and read the text, the teacher asked students questions related the pictures. Mind mapping; is used for students make mind mapping based on their thinking. Therefore, the teacher used three such as group discussion; discuss together to solve the problem. Gallery walk; students get the information after they see the pictures. Mind mapping; activity to develop their thinking. Based on the result, it is suggested that students should be more active in the class and students should prepare the material first before lesson in the reading class. Besides that, the teacher should use more English when teaching in the classroom.