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The document discusses reading comprehension problems among students and identifies the K-W-L strategy as a potential solution. It notes that students have difficulty understanding texts, translating words directly instead of comprehending meanings. Many factors influence low reading achievement, including teaching strategies. The K-W-L strategy could help by engaging students to identify what they know, want to know, and learn from texts. The research aims to determine if K-W-L improves reading comprehension scores and motivate students to enjoy reading more. It will focus on its use with a group of students in a particular vocational high school in 2018-2019.

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Background of Problem

The document discusses reading comprehension problems among students and identifies the K-W-L strategy as a potential solution. It notes that students have difficulty understanding texts, translating words directly instead of comprehending meanings. Many factors influence low reading achievement, including teaching strategies. The K-W-L strategy could help by engaging students to identify what they know, want to know, and learn from texts. The research aims to determine if K-W-L improves reading comprehension scores and motivate students to enjoy reading more. It will focus on its use with a group of students in a particular vocational high school in 2018-2019.

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A.

Background of the problem

Reading is a process making sense of written ideas through meaningful interpretation


interaction with language ( Heilman 1981; 265). The objective research is about reading
comprehension, according to of to Snow (2002:11), reading comprehension is a process of
extracting and constructing meaning simultaneously by doing some interaction and
involvement with written language.

However, in real life, the students are not able to comprehend the texts as a whole. They
thought that they should open a dictionary to translate word by word into Indonesia to know
the content of a reading text. The students cannot answer the questions that consist of the text.
They are not able to get knowledge and to understand the content from that has been
explained in the narrative text.

There are many factors that cause low achievement in reading. There are some factors, those
factors come from internal and external. Internal factors are such as IQ (Intelligence
Quotient), motivation, proclivity, talent etc. External factors are the environment, such as
teacher, parents, friends, facility, media, including strategy. The strategy can cause the
students' low achievement in reading because strategy can make teaching-learning in reading
more effective to improve the students' knowledge.

There are many strategies that can be applied to improve the students' achievement in reading
narrative text including KWL (Know-Want-Learned) strategy K-W-L is a strategy that
models the active thinking needed when reading an expository text. The letters K-W-L stand
for three activities students engage in when reading to learn; recalling what they KNOW,
determining what they WANT to learn, and identifying what they LEARN as they read.
Under this strategy, The teacher asks students to brainstorm what they know about a given
topic and writes their ideas on the board or worksheet that can be saved. The point of the
exercise is to generate curiosity, so it helps to list as many ideas as time allows; pausing to
encourage the more reticent students to contribute involves as many as possible. Then the
teacher asks, "what do you want to know?" students then suggest a new list for the board, this
time with question marks. The goal of this step is to demonstrate to students the importance
of asking questions about the material before reading. These lists become a reference for the
last question which comes up later:" what have you learned that is new and what do you still
want to learn?" K-W-L not only helps the teacher assess the students' levels of understanding
but also models the learning process and activates thinking on the topic.

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KWL strategy can improve students' achievement in reading because this strategy focused on
help students' to build up meaning from they have read and also help them to examine their
progress toward their goals. This strategy is designed to help students develop a more active
approach to reading expository material. Teacher first model and stimulate the kinds of
thinking needed for learning and then give students individual opportunities to list what they
know, what questions they want to answer, and what they have learned from reading the text.
This strategy has been shown to be an effective tool to help students become more active
thinkers and to help them remember better communicate the active nature of reading in-group
setting.

B. Identification of the Problem

1.1. The identification of problem

Based on the background above, the researcher identification some problem as follows:
1. The students’ reading ability needs to be improved.
2. The students' difficulty in understanding the texts.
3. The students' are easily bored when they read the texts in the class.

1.2. The limitation of problem

Based on the identification of the problem above, the writer focused on improving
students’ reading comprehension achievement by using K-W-L strategy in SMK
PGRI 2 Bandar Lampung 2018/2019.

1.3. The formulation of the problem

Based on the limitation of the problem above, the writer formulates the problem as
follow:

1. Is there can improve students’ compensation achievement after using the K-W-L
strategy?

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1.5. Objective and the use research

1.5.1. The objective of research


Theobjectives of the research are:

1. To know the students comperhations on reading.


2. To know the strategy can improve students reading ability.

1.5.2. The uses of research


The uses of the reseach are:
1. To give information about K-W-L strategies toward students’ reading
understanding.
2. To motivate the students learning English, espeacially in reading ability
3. To improve the reading ability.

1.6. The scope of the research

1.6.1 The subjects of the research

The subjects of the research are the students in SMK 2 PGRI Bandar lampug in
2018/2019.

1.6.2 The objects of the research

The objects of the reseach are students’ Reading comperhation through K-W-L
strategy.

1.6.3 The time of research


The research will be conducted at SMK PGRI 2 Bandar Lampung in 2018/2019

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1.6.4 The place of the research

The research will conducted at SMK PGRI 2 Bandar Lampung in JL. Khairil Anwar
no 79 Durian PayungTelp. (0721) 263951 Bandar Lampung.

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