Analysis on Teaching Reading Strategies Implemented by the First Grade English Teacher at SMK PGRI 2 Kediri

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out what teaching strategies are used and how the strategies used by teachers are implemented to teach reading comprehension. This research used a qualitative approach and descriptive qualitative as a type of research. The subjects of this research were 1 of English teachers at SMK PGRI 2 Kediri namely Mrs. Farida Salim, M.Pd. The research instrument was a checklist of observations and interviews. The results of this research showed that the strategies used by the teacher in teaching reading comprehension were scanning and skimming using text Analytical Exposition Text. And the implementation of the scanning strategy, the teacher did is asking the students to use keywords in the problem then the teacher asked students to search in the text and focus on the keywords, and finally the teacher asked students to read the entire text or sentences meanwhile to implementation of skimming strategy, teacher will asks student to read the title first, then read the entire first paragraph when students finds a sub-hidding title in the text, they can read one or two sentences from the sub-hidding paragraph, last step is to read the entire conclusion paragraph throughly.