Applying kwl (know, want, learned) strategy to enhance students' ability in reading descriptive text

Susana, Shofa Alfia (2022) Applying kwl (know, want, learned) strategy to enhance students' ability in reading descriptive text. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH Achmad Siddiq Jember.

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Shofa Alfia Susana, 2021. Applying KWL (Know, Want, Learned) Strategy to Enhance Students' Ability in Reading Descriptive Text.
Key Words: KWL Strategy, Students’ Reading Ability, Descriptive Text.
The deficiency of interest in reading is a common issue found in educational circumstances. The same issue was discovered at SMK Addimyati. The students’ reading ability was low, and they were difficult to comprehend the text. Those problems were caused by various factors, for example, the impact of online learning that inflicts students’ deficiency of interest in reading during learning in a class. Besides, students are indolent in reading the text, and they have a short vocabulary. Therefore, the teacher must utilize the strategy to help students engage and motivate in teaching learning process of reading so that they can build their reading competence. This research applied the KWL strategy in teaching learning to solve the issues found at SMK addimyati.
The objectives of this research were to describe whether applying KWL strategy can enhance students' ability in reading descriptive text. The design of this research was Classroom Action Research (CAR) with two cycles. One cycle was done in three meetings. The first and second meeting was a treatment of the KWL strategy in a class, while the third meeting was a reading test. Thus, the total of meetings in this research was six meetings. This research was conducted in SMK Addimyati Jenggawah. The participants were 30 students of the X BDP 2 class. This study was conducted following Kemmis and McTaggart's (1988) research procedure: planning, action, observation, and reflection. This study used two tests to measure the enhancement of students’ reading ability; pre-test and post-test. The data collection techniques used in this research were observation, document review, test, and interview. The data obtained were analyzed by using a formula of data from the observation, test, and interview. The researcher used a triangulation technique to validate the data and content validity to validate the test.
The results revealed the enhancement of mean scores from the pretest, post-test of Cycle I, and post-test of Cycle II. Additionally, the students’ participation enhanced from the first meeting of Cycle 1 to the second meeting of Cycle 2. It means that the students’ reading comprehension has gradually increased with certainty. Moreover, the students’ participation also improved. Nevertheless, the teacher should attract the attention of students who were noisy while the researcher applied the KWL strategy in a class. Other than that, the teacher should embrace to motivate one by one of the students to make them interested and satisfied during teaching and learning. Overall, these results verified that applying KWL Strategy can enhance students' ability in reading descriptive text.

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