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Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension Through A Kwl Strategy (Classroom Action Research At Class Xi Ips 3 Sma Negeri 1 Karangjati 2009 - 2010)


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Angkat Priyono - S890908103 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The objectives of this research are to find out whether KWL Strategy is able to improve students’ reading comprehension and to find out what happens to the class situation if KWL (Know, Want to know, Learned) Strategy is used to improve students’ reading comprehension.The research method applied in this research is action research with two cycles in which each cycle starts from planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. The materials are Analytical Exposition and Hortatory Exposition Texts. The data collected are the qualitative data and the quantitative data. The qualitative data are collected from observation, interview, and questionnaire. The quantitative data are collected from the pre-test in pre-research and the post-test in Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. The qualitative data are analyzed by Constant Comparative Method and the quantitative data are analyzed by descriptive statistics. The result of this research showed that students’ reading comprehension was improved. The improvement was proved by the increase of the students’ mean scores from 73.82 in the Pre-test to 76.97 in the Post-test of Cycle 1, and 81.58 in the Post-test of Cycle 2. Besides that, having known how to use KWL Strategy well students were more motivated and felt more comfortable in joining the reading class. They did not come late in the reading class, and did not ask permission to the researcher to go out during the reading class. They were more active because they interacted with their friends in the group work. Based on the result above, the researcher could interpret that students had been able to comprehend the passage, and they were more motivated and felt more comfortable in joining the reading class. Finally, the researcher concluded that KWL Strategy could be used to improve students’ comprehension in reading Expository Texts.