Nopa Yusnilita, Yan Mujiyanto, Mursid Saleh, Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati
Readers Theater is a strategy where two or more students perform based on the character in the story while reading from script. Repeated and assisted reading in readers' theater build students' fluency, comprehension, confidence in reading. This study was designed to explore the lecturers roles in implementing RTI can support the literacy development of struggling readers in university. From the result of the questionnaire, it can be seen most of lecturers in English department play their role as facilitator in mentor and learning facilitator (86% and 88%). They further perceived in English department as lecturer (83%), role model (87%) and student assessor (77%), and they unaware to play their role as resource developer. However, a teacher should be aware of his students and must know when they should change their roles in teaching. Besides they have to improve their proficiency, knowledge, experience and educational background. © 2019 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
