ASSESSMENT IN READING ACTIVITIES USED BY THE ENGLISH TEACHER OF 10th GRADE STUDENTS IN MA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 MALANG

摘要

Assessment is a number of methods to obtain students’ information regarding of the students abilities. It can be done in several procedures, such as test or task. In reading class, there are four types of reading assessment; perspective, selective, interactive and extensive. Each of the reading assessments has several assessment activities that can be done by the teacher in the class to discover students’ reading information.ududThis research is trying to discover how the English Teacher of 10th grade students assesses the student in reading activities to receive students’ information. Furthermore, it is also trying to discover the problems faced by the English teacher of 10th grade students when giving assessment in reading class followed with how the teacher cope with the problems. This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative research methods. The data for this research was obtained by utilizing three instruments, namely; observation, interview, and document analysis.ududBased on the research, there are several assessment activities done by the teacher in the reading activities with the topic “analyzing song lyrics”. Firstly, the teacher ordered the students to fill the blank parts with several provided vocabularies, or known as the cloze task. Secondly, the teacher instructed several students to read with a loud voice each stanza of the song, which classified as the reading aloud. Thirdly, the teacher asked the students about the song content, the moral value of the song lyrics, and the message of the song lyrics, which is categorized as summarizing. Lastly, the teacher instructed the students to answer the questions in the book based on the song lyrics, or called reading comprehension question assessment. Furthermore, there are two problems faced by the teacher in assessing the students in reading class; the low achievement students in vocabulary mastery, where students have difficulties in spelling and answering the meaning of vocabularies, and insufficient time, where the teacher cannot finished the assessment due to the class time is over. To cope with it, the teacher gives extra task or homework to cope with students’ low vocabulary mastery and ordered the students to finish the last task at home to complete the assessment.