15080963 kwl-strengths

2 The Strengths and Weaknesses of KWL strategy By : Nadiah binti Abu BakarNo Strengths Weaknesses1. Elicits students prior knowledge. Difficult for students with no prior  Students have to brainstorm their knowledge ideas and try to listing everything  Students have a problem to listing in they know about the topic. ‘K’ column and hard for them to have a general idea of the topic.2. Easy to use and organize. Take time to complete.  Students could divide the  Students have to draw the framework important and not so important and use a lot of time to think about points by dividing them into the what to list in each column. appropriate column.  Not appropriate to use in exams  They could see clearly the points because the time is limited. in order to answer the comprehension questions.3. Sets a purpose for reading. Not effective for reading fiction  Readers have the idea about the materials. text before reading the whole text.  Readers do not have any idea about the  Readers be more focus to find the story or novel. So, this strategy is not important points while reading. suitable. 2

34. Encourage students to make a Not proper for readers who has non- critical thinking. active thinking.  Students need to fill in the ‘L’  This strategy serves as a model for column by thinking what they had active thinking during reading. learnt after reading the text.  So, it is not suitable for readers who has  Students think hard want to know low thinking level and poor memory more about the topic by skills because they will not be able to questioning in the column ‘W’ expend their ideas beyond the text.5. Helps students to monitor their Students will give up and get bored comprehension and knowledge. easily.  Students know their vocabulary  When students fail to make a critical level and understanding ability. thinking by filling in the three column,  Students learn new topic and put they would give up and refuse to an effort to study more about the complete the framework. topic in order to update their knowledge. 3

5Article title : Doing Sport Psychology in Coaching Role. K W L Every coaches should  What is sport  The topic is about practice psychology psychology in the interface between skills to be the best coaching role? coaching and sport ones. psychology.  Coaches can use Coaches should be a  How to practice sports knowledge of sport role model to the their psychology? psychology principles trainees. and techniques with their athletes.  The knowledge are fostering an optimal Coaches should be  What is the important team environment, competence with their learning sport teaching sport skills, skills. psychology? practicing sport-specific psychological skills, teaching general psychological skills, preparing for competition  Coaches hoping to do 5

6 sport psychology should How to be a good coach become familiar with he with psychology skills? field, its issues, and its techniques through reading books and journal and attending workshops and conference of sport psychology. Coaches should be approachable, interested in athletes becoming acquainted with their teammates and focused on their event. 6

8 Reflective Essay By : Nadiah binti Abu Bakar “It is easier to learn something if we first access schema (what you know) and setpurpose (what you want to learn)” – taken from Thinking in Context by Hyde and Bizar.Based on the quotation, I have chosen KWL reading strategy for this semester project.The reason why I chose this strategy because it is effective to use in content reading. Firstly, KWL strategy helps me a lot in understanding the text. The frameworksteps is an interesting way to make the notes because I could see clearly the main pointsand elaborations of the text through the table. It looks well organized dividing the pointsby the columns ‘K’, ‘W’ and ‘L’. Besides, it is useful for me when I have to answer acomprehension questions based on the text. It is easy to looked for the points that I havedivided in the table rather than finding the points in the long text. Furthermore, this strategy helps me to improved my cognitive skills. I have tothought hard about the topic and refreshed my prior knowledge as much as I could. Then,I need to analyzed the text so that I could really know what I have learnt from it.Moreover, this strategy makes me consulted other resources to find out the answer toquestions that were not answered. Also, it persuades me to share my prior knowledge andwhat I have learnt with others. I have applied this strategy to the article that I have chosen entitled ‘Doing SportPsychology In The Coaching Role’. The first step of this strategy is fill in ‘What I Know’column. This step requires me to make a brainstorming and elicit my prior knowledgeabout the topic before I read the whole text. I began by listed everything I already knew 8

9in the ‘K’ column. After I have stated all my prior knowledge, I have to list the questionsor topic in ‘What I Want To Know’ column. I listed whatever I want to know about thetopic in this ‘W’ column and I hope to find the answer while reading the text. Lastly, afterfinished reading the whole text, I wrote down all the important points that I haveidentified through the text in ‘What I Learnt’ or ‘L’ column. However, I have encountered a problem when using this strategy. The problemwas I have limited prior knowledge of the topic. So, I have no idea to listing in the ‘K’column. Therefore, I decided to surf the internet to looked for the topic and asked myfriends who knows about it. As a result, I have a general idea about the topic. In my opinion, the reading strategies that I have learnt in class are helpful to thestudents. It is because, reading strategies guided students while reading the text and theycould know the purpose for reading. In addition, it also help students to manage theirtime properly to study for exams. Not only that, students will become more curios aboutthe reading task that follows and they could share their knowledge with each other. In short, KWL is an effective reading strategy in understanding text. It improvesstudents’ cognitive skills and helps students to be a good reader. 9

11 REFERENCES Bernard, L. Hayes, (1991), Effective Strategies for Teaching Reading, Bernard & Co, United States of America. CARR, E., and D. OGLE. 1987. K-W-L plus: A strategy for comprehension and summarization. Journal of Reading 30:626-631. Presents a variation on K-W-L and describes its use with ninth grades Douglas W. Carnie, Jerry Silbert, Edward J. Kame’enui, Sara G Tarver, (2004), Direct Instruction Reading Fourth Edition, Pearson Mevill Prentice Hall, New Jersey Rose Tunku Ismail, (1999), Reading Skills And Techniques, Percetakan Cs, Kuala Lumpur.http://boe.gree.k12.wv.us/ronceverte/kwl2.html, retrieved on 23/03/2009http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/kwl.htm, retrieved on 23/03/2009http://www.readingquest.org/strat/kwl.html, retrieved on 23/03/2009http://www.studytechniques.org/reading-strategies-kwl.html, retrieved on 23/03/2009 11

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