DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH “KNOW, WANT TO KNOW AND LEARNT” (KWL) STRATEGY

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The objective of the research is to explain the implementation of KWL strategy in English
reading class and the students’ responses towards it. The research was carried out at MAN
Karanganyar Central Java, from January to May 2016 employing a Classroom Action
research (CAR). The subject of the research is thirty students of MAN Karanganyar, twelfth
grade. The data were obtained from several techniques including test, observation, in-depth
interview, questionnaires and document analysis. The researcher applied a descriptive
statistics to analyze the quantitative data and constant comparative method to analyze the
qualitative ones. The findings reveal that KWL strategy can develop the students’ reading
comprehension skills in finding the main idea, detailed information, inference, word
meaning, and references. This strategy also helps teachers to get students to be more active
to participate in the process of learning, expanding knowledge, learning their needs and
interests, and activating their background knowledge. It implies that KWL strategy is very
useful for developing students’ reading comprehension skills. Therefore, it is recommended
the English teachers to apply KWL strategy in teaching reading comprehension.
Keywords: Reading Comprehension, KWL, CAR