Abstract
ABSTRACT
 This research was carried out to know the effectiveness of implementing KWL strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension of report text and to know whether there is a significant achievement difference between students who were taught with KWL strategy and those who were not. The instrument used was a multiple choice reading comprehension test. Seventy two eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Bae Kudus were selected as the sample. They were divided equally into experimental and control group. The data collection involved pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The result of the implementation of KWL strategy in the experimental group improved the students’ participation, motivation, and interest during teaching and learning process. In addition, the results of pre-test and post-test showed that mean score of the experimental group had a higher increase from 74.58 to 90.97 than the control group (from 72.77 to 87.77). However, the Independent Sample Test showed there was no significant achievement difference between the students who were taught with KWL strategy and those who were not. (1.80) was higher than.
 Keywords: Quasi-experimental; KWL strategy; reading comprehension; report text
Highlights
Reading is one of the essential skills for learning language
The purpose was to prove its effectiveness in improving reading comprehension of report text of the eleventh graders of SMA N 1 Bae Kudus in the academic year of 2018/2019
The experimental study was conducted in class XI MIPA 6 as the experimental group and class XI MIPA 5 as the control group
Summary
Reading is one of the essential skills for learning language. It is a receptive skill which is important to be mastered in learning English as a second language. According to Spratt, Pulverness, and Williams (2003), reading is a relationship between the writer and the reader through a text and a process to connect the text with the readers’ knowledge to understand the whole-text (p.21). It is the process of gaining information from text by connecting words, sentences, even paragraphs with meaning and information that are already known to understand the text (Grabe and Stoller, 2002, p.9). Improving Students’ Reading Comprehension through KWL (Know, Want, Learned) Strategy: A Classroom Action Research at Eight Grade Students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Jember.
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