- SWOT ANALYSIS -

What we Know, What we want to know, What we learned ( K-W-L )

SWOT
SWOT is commonly used as part of strategic planning and looks at: Internal strengths Internal weaknesses Opportunities in the external environment Threats in the external environment

S - STRENGTHS
1. Elicits students prior knowledge. Students have to brainstorm their ideas and try to listing everything they know about the topic.

2. Easy to use and organize

Students could divide the important and not so important points by dividing them into the appropriate column.

- They could see clearly the points in order to answer the

comprehension questions.

3. Sets a purpose for reading

- Readers have the idea about the text before reading the whole text.

- Readers be more focus to find the important points while

reading.

4. Encourage students to make a critical thinking -students need to fill in the L column by thinking what they had

learnt after reading the text.

-students think hard want to know more about the topic by questioning in the column W

5. Helps students to monitor their comprehension and

knowledge - Students know their vocabulary level and understanding

ability.
- Students learn new topic and put an effort to study more about the topic in order to update their knowledge.

W - WEAKNESSES
1. Difficult for students with no prior knowledge. - Students have a problem to listing in K column and hard for them to have a general idea of the topic.

2.Take time to complete

- Students have to draw the framework and use a lot of time to think about what to listen in each column. - Not appropiate to use in exams because the time is limited.

3. Not effective for reading fiction materials. -Readers do not have any idea about the story or novel. So , this

strategy is not suitable.

4.Not proper for readers who has non-active thinking.

-This strategy serves as a model for active thinking during

reading. -So,it is not suitable for readers who has low thinking level and poor memory skills because they will not be able to expend their ideas beyond the next.

5.Students will give up and get bored easily.

- When students fail to make a critical thinking by filling in the three column, they would give up and refuse to complete the framework.

O - OPPORTUNITIES
1. Can train students to do or read something in a more organized manner.
- Students would be familiar with organizing the points while reading materials.

2. Encourage students to read more academical materials instead of reading fictional materials
- The KWL technique is more suitable for academical/factual materials.

T - THREATS
1. Takes longer time to be applied in the class. - Students need longer time to fill in K and W columns before and during reading and need to fill in the L columns after finish reading 2. Student may be not interested with the technique used. - students need to go through a few steps by recall their prior knowledge and filling the columns before and after reading

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