THE EFFECT OF USING KWL (KNOW, WANT AND LEARNED) STRATEGY ON STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION AT THE EIGHT GRADE OF STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 2 BAGAN SINEMBAH ROKAN HILIR REGENCY

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This research was conducted based on the problems faced by the students
in learning English especially in reading recount text. Based on the fact, the
students had problems in comprehending recount text. So, the researcher was
interested in carrying out the research about these problems. In this case, the
researcher provides KWL Strategy to help students’ reading comprehension of
recount text. The objectives of the research were to find out the students’ reading
comprehension of recount text taught by using KWL strategy, to find out the
students’ reading comprehension of recount text taught without using KWL
Strategy, and to find out whether there is or no significant effect of using KWL
Strategy on students’ reading comprehension of recount text at the eight grade
students of State Junior High School 2 Bagan Sinembah Rokan Hilir Regency.In
this research, the research design was a quasi-experimental research. The
researcher used pre-test and post-test to collect the data. To analyze the data, the
researcher adopted independent sample T-test and Eta square by using SPSS21
software. Finally, based on the data analysis, the researcher concluded that there
was a significant effect of using KWL Strategy on students’ reading
comprehension at the eight grade students of State junior High School 2 Bagan
Sinembah in Rokan hilir Regency, where the effect size was 0.419 it means that
the using KWL strategy has large effect on students’ reading comprehension of
Recount text.
Keyword: Experimental, KWL Strategy, Reading Comprehension

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