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Gönen, Ipek Kuru – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Reading in FL possesses certain challenges for FL readers such as difficulty in inferring underlying messages in texts and dealing with unfamiliar cultural load. All these challenges may be associated with FL learners' reading proficiency and their use of FL reading strategies especially while reading academic materials. This study aims at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Strategies
Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2016
The current study aimed to investigate language students' use of print and electronic resources for their research papers required in research techniques class, focusing on which reading strategies they used while reading these resources. The participants of the study were 90 sophomore students enrolled in the research techniques class offered at…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing, Use Studies
Karadag, Ruhan – Online Submission, 2014
The aim of this study to explore primary school teachers' views towards critical reading skills and their perceptions of competence. The participants are 25 teacher candidates who are fourth year students studying in the Department of Primary School Education at the Education Faculty of Adiyaman University. Adopting a qualitative data approach,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
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Çepni, Sevcan Bayraktar; Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
This study aimed to find out the impact of "text mining and imitating" strategies on lexical richness, lexical diversity and general success of students in their compositions in second language writing. The participants were 98 students studying their first year in Karadeniz Technical University in English Language and Literature…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Imitation, Lexicology
Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2017
Hyperglossing -textual and/or pictorial representations of lexical items is found to be aiding the development of decoding, and narrow reading is a useful strategy for L2 reading pedagogy. Although the research on glossing provides mixed findings regarding the benefits, it is also acknowledged that glossing improves especially incidental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Vocabulary Development
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Çakir, Abdulvahit; Ünaldi, Ihsan; Arslan, Fadime Yalçin; Kiliç, Mehmet – English Language Teaching, 2016
Within the framework of foreign language teaching and learning, reading strategies, depth of vocabulary knowledge and text inferencing skills have not been researched extensively. This study tries to fill this gap by analyzing the effects of reading strategies used by Turkish EFL learners and their depth of vocabulary knowledge on their text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Strategies
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Karabay, Aysegul – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study employed a sample of 60 pre-service teachers to examine the guiding effects of understanding critical reading theories on using external reading strategies such as note-taking and underlining when confronting an ironical literary text. The study broke down the teachers into one control group of 30 teachers and one experimental group of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Critical Reading, Preservice Teachers, Experimental Groups
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Altay, Ismail Firat; Altay, Ayse – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Integration of technology in foreign language classes has long been a matter of interest for researchers. Yet, studies have often yielded indecisive and conflicting results. Besides, there have been few, if any, studies exploring the relationship between learners' use of metacognitive reading strategies and their performance in reading tests. The…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Turkyilmaz, Mustafa – Education, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the relationship between reading attitude, personality, self-regulation and metacognitive awareness of reading strategies of secondary school students. In order to carry out the aim four scales were used to 419 high school students in Kirsehir province in Turkey. It was used Lisrel 8.80 and SPSS software to…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Bastug, Muhammet; Demirtas, Gonca – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
Poor reading achievement of children in elementary schools has been one of the major concerns in education. The aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of a child-centered reading intervention in eliminating the reading problems of a student with poor reading achievement. The research was conducted with a student having difficulty in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction, Intervention
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Subasi, Gonca – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Recent research on foreign language anxiety appears to support the existence of language skill specific anxiety. The principal goal of the present study is to confirm empirically that foreign language (FL) reading anxiety is a specific anxiety type distinguishable from the more general types of FL anxiety (FLA) in the Turkish EFL context. There is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), College Freshmen, Second Language Learning
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Nergis, Aysegul – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2013
As far as academic reading comprehension is concerned, a network of linguistic skills and strategies operate in a complex and integrated matter. Since it is impossible to examine all the factors affecting reading comprehension all at once, it is more reasonable to compare and contrast the predictive effects of specific variables against each other…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Akarsu, Oktay; Harputlu, Leyla – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
In this study, data were collected using a modified version of Mokhtari and Sheorey's (2002) Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS). Results suggest that Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students at the graduate level, while engaged in academic reading, are aware of almost all effective reading strategies, though each one is not used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Kirmizi, Fatma Susar – Education 3-13, 2011
The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between levels of reading comprehension strategy use, reading attitudes, and the amount of reading per year among elementary school students. The study was conducted with 1316 students (649 girls and 667 boys) attending the fourth and fifth grades of 15 elementary schools in Denizli, Turkey.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
Solak, Ekrem; Altay, Firat – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this research was to determine what types of reading strategies prospective English Teachers used to accomplish in their reading assignments and activities. The study was conducted at a state-run University, English Language Teaching Department in Turkey. The participants were 130 prospective English Teachers majoring English…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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