A Study On Teaching Reading Comprehension by Using Retelling Technique In the Second Semester Students of English Education Program At State College For Islamic Studies (STAIN) Tulungagung

Key Words: Teaching Reading Comprehension, Retelling technique. Among the techniques used in teaching reading comprehension is retelling. Retelling is one of the best and most efficient strategies for discovering whether the student’s understand what he or she has read. In addition, retelling technique in teaching reading also help the students think critically. The present study tries to describe how retelling technique applied in teaching reading comprehension II at STAIN Tulungagung. The research problems, (1) What is teacher’s preparation in teaching reading comprehension II using retelling technique? (2) How does the teacher conduct retelling technique in teaching reading comprehension? (3) What problem’s are faced by teacher in teaching reading comprehension using retelling technique? This study uses a descriptive-qualitative research. Descriptive research studies are designed to obtain information concerning the current status of phenomena. The main instrument of the study is the researcher herself. In completing the data, the writer took from the result of interview, observation, and documentation. The data of the study are the retelling technique that use teacher in teaching reading comprehension II. In analyzing the data, this study used is the inductive method. The inductive method for the present study in which data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing were done. In order to check the trustworthiness of data analysis, triangulations was also applied. The result of the study showed that 1) the teacher has preparation in teaching reading comprehension using retelling lesson plan and syllabus. As well as teacher draw up module of reading comprehension. In the module was explained what the students do. The module which covers text of reading, vocabulary, words that go together, comprehension, remembering details, making inferences, tell the story, discussion, writing, spelling and punctuation. 2) the applicatio retelling technique are reading loud, understanding vocabulary, using idea, remembering details, making inferences, retelling of the story, discussing, writing, spelling and punctuation. 3) the teacher does not have problem in use retelling because it is very good. In other cases, the students have difficult in rememorizing the vocabulary and reading texts