EFL teachers’ perception of the effectiveness of teaching strategies in reading comprehension for high school students in Surabaya

Using strategies is very important in classroom practice to achieve the teaching objectives. Teachers can use various strategies to achieve teaching goals including when teaching reading comprehension. Any strategies teachers use will aid students in comprehending the content of the text. This study intended to analyse the perception of EFL teachers about the effectiveness of teaching strategies in reading comprehension and to find out various strategies that teachers use when they teach reading. To answer this issue, this study distributed survey questionnaires to 35 English teachers in several high schools in Surabaya. The questionnaire has both closed and open-ended questions. The results of the questionnaire were analyzed descriptively using SPSS22. The result showed that teaching strategies, according to EFL teachers, are effective in improving students‟ comprehension abilities. In addition, this study found 12 strategies performed by EFL teachers when they taught reading, and they believed that these strategies were effective in helping students‟ understanding on what they were reading. Teachers can assist students in improving their comprehension skills by employing effective reading strategies. For future research, the researcher may change the focus of research from teacher perceptions to student perceptions, so that it can provide information not only from the perspective of the teachers, but also from the perspective of the students.