THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENRE BASED LANGUAGE TEACHING ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION TEXT AT SMPN 1 PADANGSIDIMPUAN

Tunur Rahmawati Harahap

Tunur Rahmawati Harahap, tinur Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan Universitas Graha Nusantara Padangsidimpuan

Keywords: genre based language teaching, reading comprehension

Abstract

The aim of this CAR (Classroom Action Research) was to find out how the implementation of the genre based language teaching on students reading comprehension text at SMPN 1 Padangsidimpuan.This research was conducted by qualitative method. The population of this research was all of the students of the class VIII-16 SMP 1 Padangsidimpuan. The participants of the research were 21 students. After collecting the data of the research, it proved that the implementation of genre based language teaching on students’ reading comprehension text at SMPN 1 Padangsidimpuan. was improved. So, It was concluded that there was the improvement in teaching reading comprehendsion text at SMPN 1 Padangsidimpuan by implementing the method. It needs more socialization in teaching process of reading skill in the future time.