Nudiya Afiya Farha , 2201414047 (2019) IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION OF REPORT TEXT USING KWL STRATEGY (A Quasi-experimental Study of the Eleventh Graders of SMA Negeri 1 Bae Kudus in the Academic Year of 2018/2019) a final project Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Pendidikan in English. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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This research was carried out to know the effectiveness of implementing KWL strategy to improve students’ reading comprehension of report text and to know whether there is a significant achievement difference between students who were taught using KWL strategy and those who were taught using brainstorming strategy. KWL strategy is a teaching and learning strategy using three-column organizer. It is one of reading comprehension strategy used mainly for information text. The instruments used were an observation list and a multiple choice reading comprehension test. Seventy two eleventh graders of SMA Negeri 1 Bae Kudus were selected as the sample. They were divided equally into experimental and control groups. The data collection involved pre-test, treatments, and post-test. The result of the implementation of KWL strategy in the experimental group improved the students’ participation, motivation, and interest during teaching and learning process. In addition, the results of pre-test and post-test showed that mean score of the experimental group had a higher increase from 74.58 to 90.97 than the control group (from 72.77 to 87.77). However, the Independent Sample Test showed there was no significant achievement difference between the students who were taught using KWL strategy and those who were taught using brainstorming strategy. It showed

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