A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY ON TEACHING READING OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST YEAR OF SMK NEGERI 1 BANYUDONO BOYOLALI

• Main Author: GUNAWAN, TRI
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/11784/
• Summary: This research paper aims at describing the method used by the teacher in teaching reading descriptive text at the first year students of SMK N 1 Banyudono Boyolali, to know the problems faced by the teacher and to know the strategies implemented by the teacher to overcome the problems. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. The researcher collects the data by observing the English class and conducting interview with the teacher. The data include syllabus, reading materials, field notes and interview script. And the methods of collecting the data are observation, interview, and documents. From the research finding and discussion, the researcher draws the following conclusion. The first, the methods used by the teacher in teaching reading descriptive text at the first year students of SMK N 1 Banyudono Boyolali are Audio Lingual Method (ALM) and Grammar Translation Method (GTM). The second, the problems faced by the teacher are; (1) the teacher finds difficulties in managing the students in the class, (2) the students have low motivation in learning English, (3) each student has different capability in receiving the material, and (4) the teacher has limited time in teaching English. The third, the strategies to overcome the problems are; (1) the teacher walks around the class in order that the students listen to the explanation seriously, (2) give motivation by creating good relationship between the teacher and students, (3) the teacher should explain the material and gives a chance to the students to ask about the material that they do not understand yet, and (4) the teacher changes the loss time in the past meeting to explain the unfinished material in the next meeting.