{"id":7828,"date":"2024-08-21T19:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tni.ac.th\/gc\/?p=7828"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:23:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T12:23:32","slug":"developing-english-reading-comprehension-ability-of-efl-undergraduate-students-through-the-kwl-plus-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/?p=7828","title":{"rendered":"Developing English Reading Comprehension Ability of EFL Undergraduate Students through the KWL-Plus Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\nThe purposes of this research were: 1) to investigate the extent to which KWL-Plus technique can help first-year students at a private university in Bangkok Metropolitan area to read more effectively, 2) to explore the students\u2019 attitudes towards learning reading through the use of the KWL-Plus technique. The research participants were 30 first-year students derived by convenience sampling based on the class assigned to the researcher by the university registrar\u2019s office at Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology. KWL\u2013Plus technique was used with the subject group over eight-week period. The instruments used were lesson plans, an English reading comprehension test and the questionnaire of attitudes towards learning through the KWL-Plus technique. The study employed mean difference, standard deviation. The researcher administered the English reading comprehension test before and after teaching, the pre-test and post-test scores of the group were compared using t-test dependent measure. The findings of the study were as follows: 1) The KWL-Plus technique enabled the students to gain English comprehension. The students\u2019 post-test scores after they were exposed to the technique were statistically higher than their pre-test ones, at a 0.01 level. 2) As to their attitudes towards the KWL-Plus technique, the findings indicated that most students expressed positive attitudes towards learning English reading through the use of the KWL-Plus technique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1kvpSHT5nU0LtoA1UVsneBkO6enXwYgpd\/view?usp=sharing\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract The purposes of this research were: 1) to investigate the extent to which KWL-Plus technique can help first-year students at a private university in Bangkok Metropolitan area to read more effectively, 2) to explore the students\u2019 attitudes towards learning reading through the use of the KWL-Plus technique. The research participants were 30 first-year students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-66"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7828\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tni.ac.th\/gc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}