EFL Teachers' Strategies and Students' Perceptions in Teaching Reading at SMPN 1 Karangtengah and SMPN 1 Pagelaran Cianjur

m. masri muadz, dkk; prof.dr. gunawan suryoputro, m.hum; hamzah puadi ilyas, ph.d;

The purpose of this research is to observe the strategies used by teachers in teaching reading and students’ perception at Junior high school. This research attempts to adress the following questions: (1) What are teachers’ strategies in teaching reading? (2) What are students’ perceptions of their teacher strategies in teaching reading? (3) Do the teachers’ experiences influence to the teaching strategy? The participants were purposively chosen from SMPN 1 Karangtengah and SMPN 1 Pagelaran. The data were collected by using a classrom observation, interview with teachers and give the questionnaire to the students. They were analyzed qualitatively by using categorized formulated based on theories related to instructional strategies before, during and after reading activities. The major finding of this research are six teachers observed have taught using some strategies or stage in making their students reading comprehension. The stage are: Pre-
Reading, While Reading and Post-Reading. The finding show that the six teacher need to increase their knowledge and experience in order to understand the concepts, implementation and the reasons in using the strategies in teaching reading comprehension. This study recommend that EFL teachers in indonesia should have self awareness to use these kinds of teaching reading comprehension strategies.