The Effectiveness of Know-Want-Learn (KWL) Technique to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Abstract

The Purpose of this research was to find out whether or not it was effective to use Know-Want-Learn (KWL) technique to improve students’ reading Comprehension at the Fifth Semester Students of English Education Study Program Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang. This research was done through Quasi-experimental method, technique for collecting the data and technique for analyzing the data. The population number is 36 students, and use the convenience non random sampling. Based on statistic analysis of independent sample t-test, the result of students’ score in experimental group and control groups that the value of t-obtained 5.224 was higher than t-test (1.671). It could be concluded that Ho (Null Hypothesis) was rejected and Ha (Alternative Hypothesis) was accepted. The result of the students’ reading comprehension in the posttest of experimental group was (85.30) it was the higher of the score than the control group which were not through (KWL) (76.38) as the higher score. It means that used this KWL is significance.