BRITISH COUNCIL WEB TO ENHANCE STUDENTS ENGLISH READING SKILL IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (A Case Study at a One of Senior High School in West Java)

Abstract

The research reported in this paper centered to explore the enhancing english reading skill trough british council web and to analyze students and teacher perceptions while learning. This qualitative case study research was conducted in one of the vocational school in Ciamis. This research involved a tenth-grader consisted of twenty two students and English teacher in academic year 2022/2023. The data were collected using classroom observation, and a close-ended questionnaire. The researcher coded, transcribed, and summarized the data with triangulation data analysis technique. The research finding showed that the teacher implement british council strategy in the teaching and learning process namely develop the background knowledge, discuss the material, discuss the strategy. The use of british council web made the students more enthusiastic and improved their focus to learning english reading skill. Additionally, it improves their motivation to learning new english reading skill. Moreover, the teacher felt easier to convey the learning materials and classroom atmosphere. Students also gave a positive atmosphere when the teacher used british council web in teaching reading in the degree of comparison material. However both of the students and the teacher stated that longer treatment with this strategy was needed by the students to improve their reading skills. Therefore, the future researcher could be using this strategy with some modifications and adaptations to improve another skills in English learning.