Author (Penulis)

Nita Septyawati
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

12.1.01.08.0149

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is essential skill in facilitating the students to comprehend the written material. The students can get a lot of information from various resources in order to enrich their knowledge by reading. However, most of the students find difficulties to get the information from the reading text. Therefore, the researcher selects interesting strategy, namely KWL. KWL strategy helps the students comprehend the information contained from the reading passage. This research uses quantitative approach with pre-experiment design. The researcher conducted the research in MTsN 1 Kediri. The sample is chosen randomly consisting of 40 students. Data were collected from pre-test, treatment and post-test. The researcher uses reading test and the type of the test is multiple choice. To analyze the data, the researcher uses t-test. The result of the research showed that students’ reading comprehension increased after being taught using KWL strategy. It could be seen from the mean of post-test is higher than the mean of pre-test, the mean of post-test is 80.75 while the mean of pre-test is 66.25. Then, the result of the data that was computed by the t-test formula is 9.73, it means that t-test was higher than t-table of level significance 5% (2.704). So, the conclusion is there are very significant effect of KWL strategy on students reading comprehension to the eighth grade MTsN 1 Kediri. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that KWL is helpful strategy in English learning, especially in increasing students’ reading comprehension. The use of KWL strategy can help the students understand the material well, so the students can easy to understand the reading material. KEYWORDS: Reading comprehension, KWL strategy

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PUBLISHED

2017-02-10

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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