The Lecturer Strategies to Increase Students' Interest in Reading Comprehension

The aim of this study is to find out teaching strategies used by lecturers in teaching reading especially in teaching Basic Reading course. This study was conducted at the Department English Language of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University. The qualitative research approach was used in conducting this study and to obtain the data, this study involved two techniques in collecting data; interview and questionnaires. The study took 4 lecturers of Basic Reading course, 2 male and 2 female and 18 students from each lecturers’ class of Basic Reading academic year 2018/2019 as the participant. The result showed that 4 strategies used by the lecturers in teaching reading. There were 4 strategies employed by the lecturers in teaching English Reading Comprehension especially on Basic Reading course, including Think Aloud, Reciprocal Teaching, Question Answer Relationship, and SQ3R. This result of this study showed that the strategy was significant and suitable based on the students' need to increase students' interest in Reading. This study also showed that there was no different strategy used by male and female lecturers.