Effectiveness of KWLA (Know, What, Learned, Affect) Strategy in Improving the Ability of Reading

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10.2991/assehr.k.201201.117How to use a DOI?

Keywords

KWLA strategy, reading understanding

Abstract

This research begins with the importance of the role of reading in people’s lives in the modern era. In addition, the low interest in reading Indonesian people who are not balanced with advances in technology. The more advanced technology has an impact on the ease of accessing information, but on the other hand the spread of hoax news has also become very easy. People who have low reading interest will have difficulty distinguishing relevant information from those who do not. Therefore, this study will review one strategy to improve reading skills, especially reading comprehension, namely the KWLA (What I Already Know, What I Want to Know, What I Learned, and The Effect of Story) strategies in learning. This study aims to determine the learning process of reading narrative text comprehension using the KWLA strategy, obstacles experienced by lecturers, students and the environment during the learning process, increasing student ability during the learning process using the KWLA strategy, and the effectiveness of the KWLA strategy to improve students’ ability to read narrative text comprehension. This research is a Classroom Action Research using two cycles, namely Cycle I and Cycle II. The steps in conducting the research are carried out in four stages, namely: planning (planning), acting (acting), observing (observing), and reflecting (reflecting). The results showed that the KWLA Strategy was proven to be able to increase students’ abilities and interests in reading comprehension skills of narrative texts, increase student confidence in expressing ideas, and increase student activity in learning.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulianah Prihatin
AU  - Raras H. Sari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/03
TI  - Effectiveness of KWLA (Know, What, Learned, Affect) Strategy in Improving the Ability of Reading
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities (IJCAH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 683
EP  - 690
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201201.117
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201201.117
ID  - Prihatin2020
ER  -