TEACHING READING BY COMBINING TEXT RENDERING AND PARTNER READING STRATEGIES FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Oleh:
Yenjo Nita Adelina*)
**) Siska,S.S, M.Pd Staff Pengajar Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat
Abstrak
Bahasa Inggris adalah mata pelajaran yang harus dipelajari di Indonesia sejak sekolah dasar sampai perguruan tinggi. Walaupun bahasa Inggris telah dipelajari bertahun-tahun, tapi para siswa masih memiliki kesulitan khususnya dalam reading. Hal ini disebabkan karena para siswa mempunyai kesulitan dalam menemukan topic utama dalam membaca, kesulitan dalam menemukan kata-kata yang cocok untuk mewakili ide mereka, dan juga kesulitan dalam menggunakan pronounciation dan kata hubung yang tepat dalam bahasa Inggris. Oleh karena itu, guru harus bisa menemukan strategi yang menarik dalam proses belajar mengajar sehingga membuat para siswa senang dan tertarik untuk belajar bahasa Inggris dan mampu melakukan reading.
Dalam makalah ini penulis membahas bagaimana mengajarkan reading dengan menggunakan dua strategi yaitu text rendering dan partner reading. Text rendering adalah salah satu strategi yang dapat digunakan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan reading. Strategi ini merupakan strategi yang tepat untuk membantu para siswa mengidentifikasi makna apa yang terkandung dalam text yang mereka baca. Partner reading adalah salah satu strategi sangat bagus untuk menunjang kemampuan reading siswa karena dengan menggunakan partner reading strategy, semua siswa dibimbing untuk mengidentifikasi informasi-informasi untuk dikembangkan kedalam tulisan mereka. Dalam mengunakan partner reading strategy, guru menyuruh siswa untuk bekerja secara berpasangan, siswa mengembangkan ide siswa terhadap topic dan kemudian membantu siswa mengembangkan identifikasi tersebut dan menemukan makna yang terkandung dalam teks yang mereka baca .
Key words : Reading , Text Rendering and Partner Reading Strategy
*) Penulis
**) Pembimbing INTRODUCTION
Reading is one of important skill to communicate with other people or reader, because people deliver the information by using this skill.
Therefore, reading is very important,
especially for students, because by reading students can build their critical thinking about something that happened around and make their brain work on.
Basically the main purpose of reading activity is to gain ideas and information.
To achieve purpose, the students should comprehend their reading text. It is an important element for successful reading in order to build reading comprehension of students.
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Reading is very interesting topic to discuss as various definition of reading proposes by experts. Nunan (2003:68) says that reading is a fluent process of reader combining information from a text and their own background knowledge to build a meaning. A fluent is an ability of someone or reader to read the text in appropriate rate and adequate comprehension toward what they read.
Meanwhile according to Mei-yun (1993:12) reading is on interactive process of communication. The interaction between the writer and the readers made possible via text. The writer encodes his or her messages, and the reader gets the meaning of the meaning by decoding it. It means that
reading is an active process of communication where the writer and the readers internet through a text and get the meaning from what they have read.
There are many strategies that can be used by teacher in teaching reading. In this paper the teacher choose text rendering and partner reading strategy to apply in teaching reading. Walker (2008) defines that the text rendering strategy is a strategy that allow students to create and understanding of text, without having meaning given or handed down to them by teachers. This definition shows that text rendering strategy will let the students work to fine any specific idea of text. The students will create their own understanding of text without teacher help.
In this occasion, the teacher will lead the students to find the meaning through discussing.
Furthermore, Utley (2012) explain that text rendering strategy is a strategy that can be use by the students to break down
text. The students will analyze the text and find the evidence to support their understanding about the text. Then, it will let the students identify element of text and determine the meaning of unknown words.
In this paper, the writer choose teory from Balajhty and Sally,The procedure of text rendering they are:
1. Students have an article, short story that can be read aloud in class in less than 10 minutes.
2. Students volunteer to read the piece aloud. It means that, students start to read the text.
3. As students read aloud listener by underline or record on sticky notes work or phrases.
4. When students have finished reading the original text, inform them that they are going to create an oral group text from the words and phrases they selected.
5. One students(or the teacher ) begins by reading his/her words or phrases.
6. The discussion return to the original text students short reread the text, nothing their new understanding about the piece as a result of their work.
In teaching process, the teacher should apply interesting strategies that can make the students interested to study. One of those strategies is partner reading strategy.
According to Tarek (2013:118) partner reading allow students to support its other with feedback, which enhances comprehension and teaches them decoding skills.
Furthermore, Buis (2014:111) explain that using the partner reading the students can improve their strategic reading of a text and reinforce their metacognition of their use of strategies.
According to Richard(1981:7), procedure of partner reading strategy can be like following:
1. Select a piece of text for students to work.
2. Provide each students to read.
3. As students read, they are to individually identify what they consider to be most important sentences.
4. Please write each sentences, phrases and word on each of the pieces of paper provided.
5. Each table then shares their work with each other and determines what the table determines to be the important sentences.
6. Create and gallery work of the each tables determination and have the class view all of the work.
7. Return of the seats and discuss what they saw and what the text means.
Based on the intra combining procedure of text rendering strategy and reading partner strategy above, the strategy would help the students to comprehend the text and to identify keyword or phrases and
the text problem in other to determine strategy or formula to solve the given problem.
DISCUSION PREPARATION
Before coming to the class,the teachear should prepare the teaching material of lesson plan.the are some aspect that should be considered by the teacher before creating the lesson plan.
1. Choosing the topic.
2. Media.
3. Time allocation.
APPLICATION
In application of teaching reading by combining text rendering and partner reading strategy,the writer devides this part into three phases.they are preteaching activityes,whilst teaching,and post teaching activities.
1. Pre-T eaching activities (15 minutes)
Pre-teaching activities is an activity that will be done before coming to
whilst teaching activity which is started at the beginning of the lesson.then,before this activity,the teacher has to prepare the reading sections and the cards that will be used in whilst teaching activity.
2. Whilst-Teaching Activities
Whilst teaching activities are the activities which are done while the teacher is presenting the strategy in teaching process.
There are three steps of this whilst- teaching activities as follow: Exploration, Elaboration, and Confirmation. It will ease the teacher in doing their teaching in the classroom. So the teacher have to teach the students as the sequence steps.
a. Exploration
1. The teacher gives the example of the narrative text entitled “Malin Kundang”and also gives the explanation about generic structure of the text.
2. The teacher explains the topic about narrative text and about the generic structure of the text.
3. The students volunteer to read aloud.
4. As students read they are to individually identify what they consider to be the most important sentences, word, and phrases in the text.
5. When the students have finished reading the original text, the teacher inform the students to write each sentences phrases on each paper provided.
6. Each students shares their work with each other and determines about the sentences, phrases and word
7. Create gallery walk of each students determination and have the class view all of the work.
b. Elaboration
In this part, the teacher uses brain writing strategy which has some procedures.
The procedures of the strategy are:
1) Return to seats and discussion return to the original text.
2) The teacher gives question to the students related to the activity before.
c. Confirmation
In this session, the teacher guides the students to repair some errors of the students’ ideas and get the conclusion of the material which have been learned. The activities in this part are:
1. The teacher collect students writing the important word. Phrases and sentences based their comprehension.
2. the teachers discuss about important word, phrases and sentences.
3. teachers gives reward to the students.
3. Post Teaching Activities
1.Teacher invities the student to conclude our topic today.
2.Teacher reviews the topic about narrative text.
3.Teacher gives assessment to the student based on exercise student do.
4.Teacher closes the classroom.
CONCLUSION
Reading skill is needed to be developed by teacher in teaching for students. It is because by having a good ability in reading, students will be easy to express their ideas in reading form. Reading is very important, especially for students, because be reading students can build their critical thinking about something that happened around and make their brain work on. Basically the main purpose of reading activity is to gain ideas and information. To achieve purpose, the students should comprehend the reading text. Teacher should have a good competence to make the students by interest and easy in reading. In this paper, the writer has explained two strategies that can be combining by teacher when teaching reading at senior high school.
Teacher can use combining the text rendering strategy and partner reading strategy together in the same time to
increase the students comprehension in reading.
SUGGESTION
Based on the description of conclusion above, the writer would like to give some suggestion. First, text rendering strategy and partner reading strategy can be used by teachers in teaching reading as other altenative way, especially for senior high school. Second, before teacher begin teaching with text rendering strategy and partner reading strategy, the teacher has to understand what is text rendering strategy and what is the partner reading strategy. So that, the teacher can teach well and students get easy to understand.
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