THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS OF READING COMPREHENSION TO STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Abstract

This study aims to describe (1) the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension to students with visual impairment ; (2) the problem faced by the school, the teacher of English and the students in the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension and (3) the solution applied to solve those problems. The research was conducted at SMP YKAB Surakarta. YKAB itself stands for Yayasan Kesejahteraan Anak Buta, or Blind Children Prosperity Foundation. The research subject was the students of the seventh and eighth grade in academic year of 2012/2013. The data of this research are qualitative, which were collected through interview, observation and document review. Those data were analyzed using data reduction, data display as well as drawing conclusion and verification. The result of the research shows that (1) with numbers of modification, the material for the process of teaching and learning of reading comprehension to students with visual impairment was the same as that for normal sighted students; (2) there were some problems in the teaching and learning process of reading comprehension, related with the students’ condition of being visually impaired (3) some of the solutions to the problems unfortunately lead to other problem(s) that required more enhanced anticipations.