An Investigation of Approaches to Teaching Reading Used by a Teacher in a Junior High School in Bandung
- DOI
- 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.315How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- approaches to teaching reading; teaching stages; reading
- Abstract
This qualitative descriptive designed study reports teacher’s approaches to teaching reading to seventh-graders in a junior high school in Bandung, West Java. The study is aimed at analyzing approaches used by the teacher in teaching reading. This study has been informed by theory of teaching reading, including bottom-up, top-down, interactive and new literacy approaches. The data are collected by using classroom observation, open-ended questionnaires and interview. The teaching activities are analyzed and classified based on three teaching stages proposed by Wallace. The findings reveal that the teacher uses an eclectic approach in teaching reading. The data can be discovered through various reading activities conducted by the teacher in her pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading stage. Further, the teacher’s problems in teaching reading are students’ lack of participation, teacher’s lack of theoretical knowledge of EFL teaching, vocabulary-oriented teaching and teacher-centered teaching. Based on the findings, it is suggested that the teacher considers the roles of curriculum, syllabus and lesson plan in teaching reading. Then, teacher should recognize the students’ needs and conditions so she can apply the right activities in the appropriate context. Last, government should conduct training for the teacher about EFL teaching.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Gita Rahmi PY - 2019/06 DA - 2019/06 TI - An Investigation of Approaches to Teaching Reading Used by a Teacher in a Junior High School in Bandung BT - Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 534 EP - 541 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.315 DO - 10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.315 ID - Rahmi2019/06 ER -