USING ENGLISH TEACHING ACTIVITIES BASED ON KWL-PLUS CONCEPT FOR DEVELOP ENGLISH READING COMPREHENSION ABILITY OF MATHAYOMSUKSA 2 STUDENTS AT SANTICHON ISLAMIC SCHOOL

Abstract

This research investigated the reading comprehension of Mathayomsuksa 2 students in a private secondary school. Students can be able to communicate and express themselves in English to other. A private secondary school was forced to develop students’ skills to meet readiness standards. This research aimed to 1) to compare the achievement scores before and after using English teaching activities based on the KWL concept, 2) to explore the students’ satisfaction of Mathayomsuksa 2 students towards Using KWL concept to develop English reading comprehension ability. The target group was Mathayomsuksa 2 students at Santichon Islamic School. The research tools consisted of 1) lesson plan based on the concept of KWL, aiming to enhance the students’ reading comprehension 2) pretests and posttests on English comprehension, and 3) the questionnaire on satisfaction with using English teaching activities based on the concept of KWL. The Data were analyzed by using mean scores, standard deviation, t-test and questionnaire. The research revealed that the pretest and posttest have an average reading comprehension (????̅=3.75, ????.????. =2.13) and (????̅=6.61, ????.????. =1.44), which is expected before using the KWL-plus concept. In terms of their satisfaction toward the KWL-plus concept, it was found that the average is (????̅=4.22, ????.????. =0.87)