IMPLEMENTING KWL STRATEGY WITH PICTURES TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION: AN ONLINE SETTING IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Authors

  • Ni Luh Made Sri Parwati Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar
  • I Gde Putu Agus Pramerta Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar

Keywords:

KWL, online learning, pictures, reading comprehension

Abstract

The study aimed at figuring out students' reading comprehension after treating with KWL
strategy and pictures as the media. It was conducted to the seventh-grade students of SMPN 7
Mengwi in the academic year 2020/2021 with Google Classroom and WhatsApp: it was set
online in two cycles. because of Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the pre-test, it seemed that the
problems are in finding general information, specific information, textual meaning, and textual
reference. The data were obtained by giving pre-test and post-test in each cycle. The subjects'
mean score in the pre-test, post-test 1 and post-test 2 were improving from 51.21 to 63.28 in
cycle I and 80.46 in cycle II. It showed improvements concerning on their reading
comprehension. Furthermore, there were positive responses on the implementation of the
strategy. Hence, this study proved that reading comprehension could be improved through
KWL strategy with pictures.

Author Biography

Ni Luh Made Sri Parwati, Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar

National Scientific Journal of Denpasar UNMAS contains all scientific journals published by managers of journal study programs at Mahasaraswati University (UNMAS) Denpasar.

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Published

2022-07-18

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021): Volume 1 Number 1 April 2021

Section

Articles