The Effectiveness of Using KWL (Know, Want, Learned) Strategy to Improve the Students’ Reading Comprehension Ability in Descriptive Text at the Seventh Grade Students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2012/2013

Abstract

The objective of this research is to describe whether the KWL (know, want, learned) strategy to improve the students’ reading comprehension ability in descriptive text is effective or not at the seventh grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013. The type of this research is experimental research. The population in this research is SMP N 4 Purworejo. The researcher uses purposive sampling. Here, the researcher takes 2 classes as the sample to be analyzed, and the number of sample is 64 students. The data statistic analyzed by using t-test. The result of computation shows that KWL strategy is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension ability. The value of t-test was 2.97. For the 5% significance level and 62 degree of freedom the critical value of t-table was 1.999. The value of t-test is higher than t-table (2.97>1.999). Based on the hypothesis testing above, it could be concluded that Ha was accepted. Therefore, the hypothesis of this research which says “teaching using KWL (Know, Want, Learned) strategy is effective to improve the students’ reading comprehension ability in descriptive text at the seventh grade students of SMP N 4 Purworejo in the academic year of 2012/2013.