The study of students’ reading achievement after Learning by using kwl-plus strategy

Abstract

          The purpose of this research is to compare the ability of English reading comprehension of 25 second year English major students studying at Faculty of Education, Lampang Rajabhat University before and after learning by using KWL-Plus strategy. The target group is 25 second year English major students studying at Faculty of Education, Lampang Rajabhat University, in second semester of 2020 academic year. The research instruments were 5 lesson plans and English reading comprehension tests. The statistics used are percentage, mean, standard deviation and T-Test score. 
          The test results of English reading comprehension of second year English major students after learning by using KWL-Plus strategy found that the mean score before studying is 5.16 equal to 51.6 percent, the standard deviation is 0.92 and the mean score after studying is 6.92 equal 69.2 percent. The standard deviation is 0.8. This shows posttest score was higher than pretest at the 0.05 significant level.