KWL-Plus Effectiveness on Improving Reading
Comprehension of Tenth Graders of Jordanian
Male Students
Mohammad Hussein Hamdan
College of Languages and Translation, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Abstract—The main purpose of the study is to examine the effectiveness of the KWL-Plus strategy on the
performance of the Jordanian Tenth Grade male students in reading comprehension. To achieve this aim, the
sample of the study was selected from a private school and a public school. They participants were divided into
an experiment group and a control group. All the public school students represented the experimental group.
Whereas, the private school students represented the control group. The experimental group was taught
reading with the KWL-Plus strategy, while the control group was taught with the conventional reading
strategies. To collect the data, pre and post reading comprehension tests were administered. The pre-test was
conducted prior to the application of the strategy, and the post-test was given to the students in the two groups
after the application of the strategy. Data were analyzed by using mean scores, standard deviation, t-test and
covariance. The findings indicated that the experimental group of the public school scored higher on the
reading comprehension post-tests than their peers did in the control group. The researcher concluded that the
strategy was effective in improving the reading comprehension performance and recommended that the
strategy should be integrated into the English curriculum of the Jordanian schools.
Index Terms—KWL-plus, reading strategies, reading comprehension