AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION IN VIRTUAL CLASS DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19 AT SMKN 1 MASJID RAYA

Abstract

This study aimed  to know the English teachers’ strategies in teaching reading comprehension in virtual class. This research employed a descriptive qualitative method. The participants of research were three English teachers at SMKN 1 Masjid Raya. The instrument of collecting the data used in this study was interview. The objectives of this research was to know English teachers’ strategies in teaching reading comprehension in virtual class during pandemic covid-19. The result revealed  the teachers’ strategies in reading comprehension of three English teachers were the teachers usually sent the students a teaching video for every topic, the teacher also shares the reading text towards the students based on the lesson plan, the teacher gave the students a direction to read the text, the teacher used Google meet, WhatssApp and Google classroom in teaching reading comprehension, the students also need to find out keywords in reading text, the students also need to underline difficult word, vocabularies and the meaning of the words as well, the teacher also asked the students to listen to the song and then the teacher encourage them to read the lyric of song firstly and the teacher gives the students a learning video of reading comprehension.

Keywords : Teachers’ Strategies, Teaching Reading Comprehension, Virtual Class