THE EFFECT OF USING KNOW-WANT-LEARN STRATEGY INTEACHING READING COMPREHENSION TO SEVENTH GRADESTUDENTS OF SMP IT NURUL FIKRI TULUNGAGUNG

ABSTRACTSoneya, Umi. Student Registered Number. 17203153119. 2019. The Effect OfUsing Know-Want-Learn Strategy In Teaching Reading Comprehension ToSeventh Grade Students Of SMP IT Nurul Fikri Tulungagung. SarjanaThesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and TeacherTraining. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: FaizatulIstiqomah, M.Ed.Keywords: Reading comprehension, Descriptive text, KWL strategy.Reading is one of the most difficult skill for language learners to bemastered, because in the process of reading, the readers should comperhend the textor combine information from a text and their own background knowledge to builda meaning. Their failures in doing exercise, limited vocabulary and their lowmotivation influence in their reading achievement. It becomes a challenge forEnglish teacher to increase students’ motivation in order to achive learning goals.So, it needs an interesting strategy. Teachers need a strategy in their instructionalprocess to assist them develop both students’ skills and characters. KWL is one ofalternative reading strategies that can be used by teachers to enhance the students’reading skills. The use KWL strategy give a contribution to improve student’reading comprehension.The formulation of the research was: “Is there any significant difference onstudents’ reading comprehension before and after being taught by using KnowWant-Learn (KWL) strategy to seventh grade students of SMP IT Nurul Fikri?”.Based on the formulation of research problem, the purpose of this research problemwas: to know whether there is significant difference on students’ readingcomprehension before and after being taught by using Know-Want-Learn (KWL)strategy to seventh grade students of SMP IT Nurul Fikri.The research design of this study was Quasi-Experimental reseach withquantitative approach. The population of this research was the seventh gradestudents of SMP IT Nurul Fikri which consist of A and B classes. The sample ofthis research was A and B class that each consist of 26 students. A class asExperimental group consists of 13 male and 13 female students and B class asControl group consists of 11 male and 15 female students. The research instrumentwas reading comprehension test which is in the form of multiple choices that consistof 20 questions. To measure the data analysis of pre-test and post-tes was usingIndependent sample T-test with IBM SPSS 16.0.The result showed that the students’ mean score in experimental groupbefore being taught by using KWL strategy was 68,46 and the students’ mean scoreafter being taught by using KWL strategy was 74.23. In control group also there isimprovement mean score from 59.42 became 61,73. However, the improvement inexperimental group was higher than control group. In addition, the result of thestatistical computation used Independent Sample t-test with SPSS 16.00, showedthat the significant value is 0.00. It means that the significance value is smaller thanthe significance level (0.00 < 0.05). The result of significance value indicates thatthe null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted.It means there was a significant difference of using KWL strategy on students’reading comprehension to seventh grade students of SMP IT Nurul Fikri. In theother words, KWL strategy was recommended for the teacher to teach readingespecially in descriptive text.