AN ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEACHERS’ STRATEGIES IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION IN VIRTUAL CLASS DURING PANDEMIC OF COVID-19

This study aimed to know English teachers’ strategies in teaching reading comprehension in virtual class during pandemic covid-19. 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 result revealed the teachers’ strategies in reading comprehension of three English teachers were the teacher usually sent the students a teaching video for every topic (Think-aloud), the teacher also shares the reading text towards the students based on the lesson plan (Sketch to Stretch), the teacher gave the students a direction to read the text (Information Delivery), the teacher used Google meet, WhatssApp and Google classroom in teaching reading comprehension, the students also need to find out keywords in reading text (Think-aloud), the students also need to underline difficult word (Semantic Mapping), vocabularies and the meaning of the words as well (Sketch to stretch), the teacher also asked the students to listen to the song and then the teacher encourage them to read the lyric of song firstly (Sketch to Stretch) and the teacher gives the students a learning video of reading comprehension so that the students can ask the teacher if they did not understand (Question-Answer Relationships (QAR). From the result, it found that the teachers used Think-aloud, Sketch to Stretch, Information Delivery, Semantic Mapping and QAR strategies.