write on their own worksheet. The technique also covers pre-reading activity, whilst-reading activity and post-reading activity.The students will begin to
activate their prior knowledge about what they know K as pre-reading activity, then they decide the purpose of their reading by What do they want to know W
as whilst-reading activity and then they write down in the column mark What they have learned L all of the answer of their questions as the purpose also the new
information after they have finished the reading. All the steps are the way to developing students‘ reading comprehension by activiting their prior knowledge
and the purpose of their reading.
D. Previous Study
A lot of research conducted to know the influences of using K-W-L chart in In improving students reading comprehension. Some of the reseraches was
conducted such as the research conducted by Zhang Fengjuan with the title is The Integration of the Konow-Want-Learn KWL strategy into English Languge
Teaching for Non-English Majors. In this reaserch the writer used the K-W-L strategy in the writing class. The objective of the research was to know how
integrated KWL instructional scheme into ELT for non-major. He used two classes as experimental and controlled class. The data nalysis used Leven‘s testfor
equality of varience. The calculated showed that p. Value= 0.340.05. it means that there was significant difference in the means of group. In short, the null
hypothesis was rejected and alternative hyphothesis was accepted. Moreover, Hesti Wijaya also condacted the similiar research with the title
is Using KWL strategy to Improve the Reading Comprehensiopn Skills on Hortatory Exposition Text. She used 25 undergratuate students from accountin
department. The research methodology used qualitaive method with the procedure: planning, action,observation and reflection.then, after she did two
cyles then the first mean score 67.07. In addition, the second mean score 74.80 it means that there was inprovemen 11.33 points in other word KWL strategy was
effective in increasing the students‘ reading comprehension. Furthermore, another research condacted by Mohammad Hussein Hamdan
with the title KWL –Plus Effectiveness on Improving Reading Comprehension of
Tenth Graders of Jordanian Male Students. The used two groups, a privete school as the controlled group and the public school as the experimental group. To
administered tha data, the writer conducted pretest and postest. The data were analyzed by using mean score. The result was the public school score higher than
private school. In other word, KWL was efectif in improving reading comprehension performance.
Furtheromre, the distinguishable point in this reserach is that this research was the material used as the variable. The writer decided to use the descriptive
text. The main reason was there was many things that could be describe such as animal, person and thing. In addition, it also could explain about feeling and
sense. So, the students esier to recall their prior knowledge because they had more information about the topis.
E. Conceptual Framework
Reading is one of language skills that students need to be acquire because reading may improve and develop their knowledge and their language skill. When
students read a text, they have to comprehend and intrepet the ideas from the text, so they may get the information and message from the writer.
Unfortunatelly, most of students have many problems in their reading compeehension. Here are the five main problem that usually found by students. 1
Students have diffuculty with the meaning of some words vocabulary that gives impact on their understanding. 2Students have less motivation in reading. Most
of them did not try to ask their teacher when they found a diffcult word, consequently, they need a long time to read or give up finishing their reading. 3
Students‘ attitude to text is ―text knows best‖. The students think that the all content of the text is correct. In that makes students tend to passively accept what
is found in reading. 4 Boring atmosphare. Students also have lack of interest at the starting points in a reading class especially when they found unfimiliar topic
of the text that may lead to the whole boring atmosphere. 5 Students maynot utilize their prior knowledge with the information stated in the text, whereas, it
will help them to comprehend the text they read.