Exploring Teachers’ Strategy in Dealing with Senior High School Students’ Lacking Ability in Comprehending English Texts.

This study aimed to investigate the teachers' strategies in dealing with senior high school students lacking ability in comprehending English texts. It involved 65 English teachers of senior high schools in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar as the sample selected purposively. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. The results show that different English teachers used different strategies in dealing with students lacking ability in comprehending English texts. They are; predicting, reading aloud, skimming, and summarizing. However, most of them also have similar strategies namely; questioning and activating students' prior knowledge. Furthermore, the teachers face challenges are lack of students’ vocabulary, lack of motivation, and time constraints in dealing with students lacking ability in comprehending English texts.