The Effectiveness of KWL on Reading Expository Texts Across Reading Anxiety Levels

Retriansyah, Luthfi
Ivone, Francisca Maria
Tresnadewi, Sintha

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan
Vol. 5, No. 3

This quasi-experimental research tries to find out the effectiveness of KWL on student’s comprehension of expository text and also observe how effective KWL is on the reading comprehension of the students across reading anxiety level. It is found that the difference in reading comprehension between student taught by using KWL and those taught by using conventional way is significant, the reading activities offered by KWL steps were effective to facilitate students in enhancing their comprehension in reading, and thedifference between students with low reading anxiety and those with high reading anxiety taught by using KWL is significant as well.