ELISABETH PEREIRA PADATU Pengarang GRACIA M. N. OTTA Dosen Pembimbing 1 DEWI I N BILI BORA Dosen Pembimbing 2 Elisna Huan Ketua Penguji Gracia M. N. Otta Penguji 1 Dewi I N Bili Bora Penguji 2

This thesis is entitled: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KNOW-WANT-LEARN STRATEGY TO IMPROVE READING COMPREHENSION IN ELEVENTH GRADE OF SMA NEGERI 2 KOTA KUPANG IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024. The problem of the research is to what extent the implementation of the know-want-learn strategy improves students' reading comprehension of the eleventh-grade students of SMA NEGERI 2 Kota Kupang in the academic year 2023/2024. This research aims to find out whether the implementation of the know-want-learn (KWL) strategy can improve students' reading comprehension in the eleventh-grade students of SMA NEGERI 2 KotaKupang in the academic year 2023/2024. This research isa classroom action research (CAR). The research subject is the eleventh-grade students of SMA NEGERI 2 KotaKupang, consisted 24 students,10 females, and 14 males. This study used the quantitative method. In the collecting data, the students were given the multiple-choice test and the number of items on the test was 20 items. The research was conducted in two cycles. The pre-test and post-test showed significance too. It could be concluded that the Know-Want-Learn strategy can improve students' reading skill. Keywords: improve, KWL, Strategy, Reading