The Effect of Using Know Want Learn (KWL) Plus Strategy toward Reading Comprehension on Exposition Text of the Second Grade Students at Islamic Senior High School Al-Kautsar Pekanbaru.

Abstract

Reading is one of the skills in English language that is needed to be learned by students including the second grade of students at Islamic senior high schoolAl-Kautsar Pekanbaru. Therefore, the students are expected to be able to master the reading skill. Based on the fact, the students had difficulties in reading comprehension especially in analytical exposition text. In this case, the writer as the researcher provided Know Want Learn (KWL) Plus strategy to improve the students’ ability in reading comprehension. This strategy could be used to maximize the students’ acquisition and retention of curricular material. The objectives of the research were to find out the students’ ability in reading comprehension by using KWL Plus strategy, to find out the students’ ability in reading comprehension without using KWL Plus strategy and to find out whether there was significant effect or nor on the students’ reading comprehension by using KWL Plus strategy of the second grade students at Islamic senior high school Al-Kautsar Pekanbaru. In this research, the type of research used was quasi experimental research. The researcher took non-equivalent control group design. The researcher used two classes as sample. One class was for experiment class and another class was for control class. Both of the classes were given the treatment during six meetings. The technique of collecting data was written test with multiple choice. The subject of the research was the second grade students at Islamic senior high school AlKautsar Pekanbaru. Based on the research finding, the significant number was 0.000<0.05. It means that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected. Besides, it can be proved from mean score of the students’ reading comprehension of post-test at experiment class was 83.87, while the students’ reading comprehension of post-test at control class was 73.77. Furthermore, the mean score improvement of the students’ reading comprehension at experiment class was 18.40 (28.98%) while in control class only 6.87 (10.51%). So, it can be concluded that there is significant effect on the students’ reading comprehension in analytical exposition text by using KWL Plus strategy of the second grade students’ at Islamic senior high school Al-Kautsar Pekanbaru