Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

An Investigation of Approaches to Teaching Reading Used by a Teacher in a Junior High School in Bandung

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Gita Rahmi
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Gita Rahmi
Available Online June 2019.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.315How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 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/).

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