Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Student Attitudes, NOVA Publications , ss.51-61, 2012
Are there any significant effects of students' use of reading strategies on coping with course-textbooks, on their attitudes towards Turkish language course and their success in it? The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of reading comprehension strategies instructions within texts in the course-books on the attitudes and success in reading at elementary school 8th grade Turkish course. A quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test measures was used. The research was performed in a middle socioeconomic level elementary school classroom in İzmir-Buca. The research was carried out with two groups, representing experimental and control conditions. In the experimental group (n=61; female=29, male=32), instruction related to reading comprehension strategies was applied whereas in the control group (n=59; female=28, male=31), standard Turkish Course Curriculum instruction was applied. As a tool of collecting data in this research, in order to determine the students' attitudes towards reading, the "Attitude Scale Towards Reading (ASTR)" developed by Susar and Kirmizi (2006) was used. Turkish language course grades were collected as criterion for the success. A significant difference was found in favor of the experimental group between pre-tests and post-tests of the reading comprehension strategies learning group, and Turkish Course Curriculum instruction group. Reading comprehension strategies instruction in elementary school 8th grade can have a significant effect on developing positive attitudes towards reading. However, using reading strategies did not have a significant effect on success. At the end of the research period, reading strategies were also taught to the control group. © 2012 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.