The Use of Authentic Material in Teaching Reading Descriptive Text: Review of Literature

Process of learning needs development time by time. Following situation of teaching, it is
important for educator to find materials which is understandable and enjoyable. One of
materials that effective to be used is authentic material. The authentic materials are not
designed for language learning, it is able to use as a tool to teach students and give them
real experience in the classroom. Moreover, this paper aims to review research about
authentic materials that is used in teaching and learning reading, especially (descriptive
text). In order to get the goal, this paper reviews some researches from experts relating to
the use of authentic materials in learning to read descriptive text. The author used around
40 articles which discussed about teaching English skills especially reading, authentic
material and descriptive text. The author collected the data by surfing the international
and national journal to be reviewed. The result shows that most of the studies recommend
the educators use authentic materials to be applied in the classroom