The Comparison between the Use of KWL-Plus and KWL strategies on Students’ Reading Comprehension at IT Al-hafit Junior High School Pekanbaru

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The purpose of this research is to find out whether there is a significant
difference between the use of KWL-plusandKWLstrategies on students’ reading
comprehension atIT Al-hafit Junior High SchoolPekanbaru. The type of the
research was experimental research. Students in grade 8 of the school were the
subject of this research. In this research, two classes were involved, namely a
class as the experimental group and another class asa control group.By using
cluster sampling, 40 students were randomly selected from 124 students in the
population.In collecting data, multiple-choice tests and observations were done.To
analyze the collected data, t test for independent and paired samples and effect
size equations were used. Finally, it was found that the significant values were
0.000 and 0.000;and thevalues were smaller than p value
(0.005). It means that
there was a significant difference between the use of KWL-plusand KWL
strategies on the students’ reading comprehension based on the results of post-test
in the experimental group and the control group.Besides, the values of eta square
were0.89and 0.87. In other words, there is a significant difference between the use
of KWL-plusand KWL strategies onthe students’ comprehension in reading
descriptive text, and the effect size is categorized as medium. In conclusion,
KWL-pluswas more available to be applied in teaching and learning process of
readingcomprehension at the school.
Keywords: Kwl-plus strategy, Kwl strategy, students’ reading comprehension

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