Limited facilities require teachers to adopt adaptive teaching strategies. This research describes students’ perceptions of English teachers’ strategies and examines their relationship with reading skills at Madrasah Aliyah Muhammadiyah Toaya, a school without a library or adequate reading materials. This quantitative correlational study involved all 25 eleventh-grade students and used a 15-item perception questionnaire, a 10-item reading test, and Spearman Rank correlation. Perceptions were moderate (M = 2.69), and reading skills were low (M = 32.00). Perceptions were not significantly associated with reading achievement (rs = −0.171; p = 0.414; 95% CI [−0.53, 0.24]). Teacher strategies may need to be accompanied by adequate reading materials and sustained reading practice.
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