AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHER’S STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL TO VISUALLY IMPAIRMENT STUDENTS AT SMA LUAR BIASA BANDA ACEH IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

Abstract

This study is aimed at portraying teacher’s strategies in teaching speaking skill to visually impairment students at SMA Luar Biasa Banda Aceh. It is conducted to know what the teacher implemented in teaching speaking skill to special needs class with visually – impairment students such as the strategies that the teacher used, and the problems and solutions were faced in the implementation of teaching learning process. The methodology employed in this research is a qualitative method. The subject of the research is the teacher at SMA Luar Biasa. The data were collected through interview with an English teacher. The technique of data analysis used in this research was interactive model analysis adopted  is from Yin, those are: compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. The result revealed that strategy used by the teacher was only question and answer strategy. The problems faced by the teacher while teaching visually impairment students were firstly, all students with different levels were seated in one class. Secondly, there was no team-teaching and finally, the school had lack of facilities. However, the result showed that there was no solution for those problems yet.