The effect of using K-W-L strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan

Harahap, Samrah Marlija (2015) The effect of using K-W-L strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research focused about the effect of Using K-W-L strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at Grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. The problems of this research were most of the student failed in understanding the text, it occur when the teacher gives some questions based on the text, they answer diverge to the questions, Most of the student still get low grade with average 70; meanwhile the standard of English competency in this school is 78, and the students were poor in vocabulary mastery and they lack motivation in reading comprehension. So make them lazy to read and not try to understanding the text in reading activities. The aim of this research was to find out the effect of using K-W-L strategy on students’ reading comprehension at grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. This research employed experimental research. The population of this research was the eight grade of MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan. The total of population were six classes. Then, the sample of the research was two classes, experiment class (VIII-1) and control class (VIII-2). It was taken randomly after conducting normality and homogeneity test. To collect the data, researcher used test for measuring students’ Reading Comprehension. To analysis the data, the researcher used t-test. Based on the result of the research, researcher showed the description of the data was found that the result of experimental class was higher than control class (83.75>58.25), and the score of tcount was bigger than ttable (44.73> 2.000). It means that the hypothesis alternative (Ha) was accepted. It was concluded that there was the effect of using K-W-L strategy on Students’ Reading Comprehension at Grade VIII MTs YPKS Padangsidimpuan.

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