Picturing Senior High School Teachers’ Beliefs In Using Authentic Reading Materials To Teach Literacy In Samarinda, East Kalimantan
Abstract
The investigation on teachers’ beliefs in using authentic materials becomes very important as it
deals with the professional development of teachers as it can reflect to the quality of language
teaching especially teaching literacy in Senior High School. This study was aimed to explore
the beliefs of Senior High School teachers in using authentic materials. Five teachers who teach
English 11 graders were the subjects of this qualitative study. The data were taken from a semistructured
interview,
classroom
observation
and
document
analysis.
The
findings
showed
that
there
were
three
themes
emerged
in
this
study,
(1)
the
roles
of
authentic
materials,
(2)
the
text
types
of
authentic
materials,
and
(3)
the
use
of
authentic
materials
in
classroom
practices.
However,
they
had
difficulties
in
finding
and
selecting
authentic
materials
which
are
appropriate
to
their
students’ cognitive level. Therefore, they needed to provide extra time to search and validate the authentic
materials to be suited to their students’ cognitive level.