The Effects of Using KWL-Plus Strategy through Infographics on Thai EFL Students’ Reading Comprehension Skills The Effects of Using KWL-Plus Strategy through Infographics on Thai EFL Students’ Reading Comprehension Skills
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This study aims to investigate the effects of using KWL-Plus strategy through infographics on Thai EFL students’ reading comprehension skills, and to explore their attitudes towards using KWL-Plus strategy through infographics in a face-to-face EFL classroom. The pedagogical intervention was implemented for an academic semester and aimed to help learners develop their reading comprehension skills based on the use of infographic as the main learning assignment. The convenience-sampled participants included 15 first-year students studying English major in Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University, Thailand. The instruments were a pre-test, post-test, KWL-Plus student’s infographics, as well as open-ended questions about students’ views toward using KWL-Plus through infographics as instructional material. The statistics used for analysis were a Paired Sample T-test, Means, and Standard Deviation. The main findings from the study can be summarized in two areas: 1) there was a statistically significant difference in their mean scores (p < 0.001), which was higher than those of the pre-test after KWL-plus strategy was introduced to the participants; and 2) the result of the open-ended questions based on content analysis revealed that students were satisfied with using KWL-Plus strategy through infographics as instructional material to enhance reading comprehension skills. In addition, the students were encouraged to be active learners in a collaborative classroom environment by seeing the implementation of the KWL-Plus strategy through infographics while reading English passages.
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