Implementation Of The KWL (Know Want To Know Learned) Strategy To Improve Students^ Reading Comprehension
Slamet Musafir

Universitas Sains Al-Qur^an

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the KWL (Know Want to Know a Learned) strategy on students^ reading comprehension. This type of research is quasi experimental research with one group pretest posttest design. This research was conducted at MI Ma^arif NU Klesman. The instrument in this study used multiple choice questions. The results obtained indicate an increase in reading comprehension. The use of the KWL strategy is applied to intensive reading material or reading comprehension of the contents of the reading text where column K (Know) is what students already know after reading the contents of the reading text, column W (Want) what they want to know or what students have not understood in the content of the reading text, and column L (Learned) students can conclude the content of the reading text that has been read. The average value of reading comprehension of students before using the KWL strategy was 55.19 in the poor category, while after using the KWL strategy it was 76.54 in the Good category, it increased by 21, 35. Based on the calculation, it is found that the X2(count) value is 1.89 and X2(table) is 11.07 with an error rate of 5%. Because X2(count) < X2(table) (1.89 < 11.07), the experimental sample comes from a normally distributed population. Based on the results of the t test, it was obtained tcount = 7.915 and ttable = 2.060 with a level of 5%, because tcount was 7.915 > ttable 2.060, it could be concluded that there was an increase in the reading comprehension of students after using the KWL learning strategy.

Keywords: KWL, strategy learning and reading comprehension

Topic: Education