Explore the Use of Authentic Materials to Teach Reading for Junior High School

Abstract

Authentic materials provide many advantages and promote something new, challenging, and interesting in teaching-learning process, which can build students’ motivation in English learning. This study aims to explore about the types of authentic material which are used in teaching reading and what kinds of reading activity can be implement by using authentic material. In this research, a case study was applied as the research method and the data were qualitative data. To collect the data, some techniques of data collection were used such as observing the classroom activity, conducting the interview to the subjects of the research, and analyzing the documents. Through the data analyziz, the researcher sumerized two points from this study: 1) The authentic materials used by the eighth grade teacher of Junior High School are texts obtained from the internet, printed story book, videos, and pictures; 2) The reading activities conducted by the eighth grade teacher of Junior High School through the use of authentic materials as supplementary materials are reading aloud, walking gallery, filling in blanks, rearranging jumbled paragraphs, doing cloze tasks, having short answer tasks, conducting information transfer, having text analysis, and doing some vocabulary ordering.