Toto Nugroho, 0203513043 (2018) ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS ON THE DIFFICULTIES AND STRATEGIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION FOR STUDENTS WITH LOW AND HIGH MOTIVATIONS (The Case of the English Teachers in State Senior High School in Eastern Pemalang Regency). Masters thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Nugroho, Toto. 2017. “English Teachers’ Perceptions On The Difficulties And Strategies In Teaching English Reading Comprehension For Students With Low And High Motivations”. Thesis draft. English Education, Post Graduate Program of Semarang State University. Advisors: I. Dr. Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati, M. Pd , II. Dr. Rudi Hartono, S. S., M. Pd Keywords : Perception, Difficulties, Strategies, Reading A teacher should have good perception of teaching and strategies to deal with some difficulties that can be aroused in the process of reading. However, the teachers’ background of State Senior High School of Pemalang regency are various. This condition make different perception when they performed in their teaching English in their classroom. The present study soughht to explore Engllish teachers’ perception of learning second language, difficulties and strategies from different teachers’ backgrounds. The qualitative quantitative descriptive analytical method was implemented in this study. The data were taken from 23 teachers’ responses of questionnaires. The 23 are the English teachers of State Senior High School in Eastern Pemalang Regency. The data were taken by using five-point Likert-type attitude scale to obtain the teachers’ perceptions on tteaching reading and difficulties. The five-point Likert-type frequency scale was also used to know their teaching reading strategies, especially to the students with high motivation and the students with low motivation. This study found some points. First, the English teachers of State Senior High School in Eastern Pemalang Regency perceived that teaching reading was not only read aloud the sentences correctly, but also connecting background knowledge to text to gain the students understanding to the text. Second, the teachers preceived that there were three maor difficulties in teaching reading. They were the students’ lack of prior knowledge, the students’ lack of English vocabularies,and the students with low and high motivation. Third, the teachers applied some effectives strategies to tackle their difficulties. Fourth, this study found that teachers’ variables influence their perception on students’ grammar problems in undertanding the text. The last, the teachers’ perceptions were the representation of the condition coupled with their beliefs and expectations. The findings suggest that the teachers should perform their best performance in front of their students. They should be the tutor, controller and the assistant for their students.

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