Improving Students Reading Comprehension Achievement of Narrative Text Through KWL Strategy

Ara Bella Pandora Vista, Sudirman Sudirman, Deddy Supriyadi

Abstract


Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apakah ada peningkatan yang signifikan secara statistik dari pencapaian pemahaman bacaan siswa setelah siswa diajarkan melalui strategi know- want- learned (KWL). Penelitian ini menggunakan satu kelompok desain pretest dan post test, quisy experiment. Subyek penelitian ini adalah 23 siswa di kelas IX B pada tahun akademik 2017/2018. Data dikumpulkan menggunakan tes membaca dalam mengambil bentuk pilihan ganda. Data dianalisis menggunakan paired sample test. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa ada peningkatan yang signifikan secara statistik dari pencapaian pemahaman bacaan siswa dengan tingkat signifikan 0.00 <0.05. Ini menunjukkan bahwa pengajaran membaca menggunakan strategi KWL memfasilitasi siswa untuk menemukan informasi spesifik dari teks dengan mudah.

The aim of this study was to find out whether there was a statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension achievement after the students were taught through know- want- learned (KWL) strategy. This study employed one group of pretest and post test design, quisy experiment. The subjects of this research were 23 students in class IX B in the academic year 2017/2018. The data were collected using the reading tests taking the forms of multiple-choice. The data were analyzed using paired sample test. The result showed that there was a statistically significant improvement of the students reading comprehension achievement with the significant level 0.00<0.05. This suggests that teaching reading using KWL strategy facilitates the students to find specific information from the text easily.

Keywords : KWL strategy, reading comprehension achievement, narrative text.


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