Name : FEBRI SUSANTI

Class : TBI C

NIM : 204180092

A Review on

THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS OF READING COMPREHENSION

TO STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Journal or article taken from English Education Study Program Sebelas Maret University of
Surakarta

Writen by :

Dika Pranadwipa Koeswiryono,Muh Asrori,and Endang Setyaningsih

Reviewed by Febri Susanti

GOAL This study aim to describe :

a. The teaching and learning process of reading comprehension to
students with visual impairment
b. The problem faced by the school,the teacher of english ,and the
student in the teaching and learning process of reading
comprehension
c. The solution applied to solve those problem.
METHOD The approach used in this research is descriptive study.It is research
concerned with condition or relationship that exist,opinions that are held,
processed that are going on ,effect that are evident,or trenda that are
developing ,in descriptive study,the data which is collected are in the form
of word and picture ,instead of number.
RESULT In preparing for the reading comprehension activity,the teacher converted
the printed text from book into braille.As teaching hand book,he used
“English Focus”,which was scanned with special device,to be converted
and printed into Braille text then.It was clarified that it is not necessarily
the whole book ,and only the reading passanges were converted.Due to
the limited time ,however,the text was no more converted as frequence as
before.
CONCLUSION Based on the result and discussion above,it can be conclude that Teaching
Preparation,the material of English reading comprehension for students
with visual impairment was the same as that for their peers at regular
schools.It is believed that many techniques and strategies for seeing
children are ussually as effective as those for the visually impaired.The
problem wasthe lack of time to convert printed reading comprehension
text to Braille.In order to solve the problem above,the teacher decided to
more frequently dictate the text for the student.
COMMENT