TEXT AS REFLECTED IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION

Abstract

This study was aimed at describing the ways of the teachers in teaching reading
comprehension of recount text taught in grade eighth and finding out the reason why the
teachers did that ways in teaching. This study employed a qualitative research design that
taken from two English teachers, the first was from SMP Swasta Muhammadiyah 05
Medan, and the second was from SMP N 37 Medan. The data were collected by using
passive participant observation with the tape and video records as a tool to record the
interaction and interview to find the reason why the teachers did that way in teaching
reading comprehension of recount text. The data were analyzed by using three major
phases of analysis: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing (Miles,
Huberman, and Saldana: 2014). This study revealed that the teachers used the three
reading stages as it is applied into scientific approach in teaching reading comprehension
of recount text: (a) pre-reading: asking students’ background knowledge about the topic,
asking to open the books and explaining the content about the genre of recount text; (b)
while-reading: asking the student to read the text on the text book, recalling students’
knowledge about recount text, managing the classroom to do a group task in answering
the questions based on the recount text, and; (c) post-reading: guiding the students to
answer the questions and clarifying the answer together. It also found that in the
classroom interaction the teachers took their role very good in order to lead the classroom
activity while teaching. The reason underlying why the teachers did those ways because
teachers believed that by giving the students the genre knowledge of recount text can help
the student to understand and recognize the recount text; the student will not be engaged
by reading text activity if they just asked to read the text; the information about genre
knowledge of recount text can help the students in reading comprehension of recount text,
and; the competence of the students in mastering the reading recount text can be seen
from answering the questions related to the text by doing reading comprehension.