A defective activity is an activity which is considered to have imperfect
function of an activity related to the goal of the activity. In reading comprehension
class, defective activity is not suitable in building students’ comprehension skill.
The aim of this research is to find out the defective activities that the lecturer
implemented in reading comprehension class and the responses that the students
felt in the reading comprehension classes. Descriptive quantitative using survey
was used as a method of this research. To get the information about defective
activity in reading comprehension class, 76 respondents from the fourth semester
English Education Department students of University of Muhammadiyah
Purwokerto were surveyed by using questionnaire consisting of 20 statements.
The result from the questionnaire showed that defective activities were still
implemented in reading comprehension classes. In detail, unrelated
comprehension activities showed the highest precentage 88.9%. The second is
translating the passage come (85.5%), followed by reading aloud (68.7%) and
structure development (63.9%). The lowest precentage is focused more on generic
structure gaining 62.9%. Then, the students respond that they were agree that their
lecturer implemented those kinds of defective activities in reading comprehension
class.