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ABSTRACT The Effect of KWL Strategy to Improve Students’ Writing Achievement of Seventh Grade Student at Smp Nasional Plus Indo Tionghoa – Tarakan. Advisor : Romlah Ulfaika, M.Pd, The Purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of Know, Want to Know, Learned (KWL) strategy could improve students’ writing achievement. The subject of this research were seventh grade students at SMP Nasional Plus Indo Tionghoa Tarakan in the 2019/2020 academic year. Writing is one of the English skills that student must master and acquire in learning a new language. In this study, the KWL strategy that used tables was applied to teach writing to the students. The instrument used was a writing test in the form of posttest and pretest. Data were analyzed descriptively with the help of the SPSS 24.0. The analysis results showed that there was a significant difference in the mean score between the pretest and posttest. Mean score for pretest was 63.67 and for the pretest was 72.00. There was an increase of 8.33 points, with the posttest score being higher. The results of the paired sample test showed the calculated t value (7,174) was higher than the critical t value (2,042), indicating the acceptance of the Ha. It was concluded that the use of KWL strategy was able to improve the students’ writing achievement. Apart from that, the students’ opinions about the KWL strategy also showed that it helped them in learning to write.