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Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2020
Sufficiently developed skills in L1 are considered a precondition for success in the achievement of bilingualism. Moreover, it is reported that language learners whose native language skills are better mastered obtain superior second language proficiency and exhibit higher levels of language competence and accomplishment in L2. This chapter aims…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, English (Second Language), Native Language
Çiftci, Harun; Kömür, Sevki – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the effect of categorically different pre-reading activities in learners' L1 on reading comprehension and learning of focus-on-vocabulary. The participants were sixty Turkish EFL learners attending a state high school, and the data was gathered from their achievement test scores. We analyzed the data through one-way…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Native Language
Kara, Bayram – Online Submission, 2019
This study investigated the effects of reading graded readers on the reading comprehension scores of the prep students at university. 30 EFL students from School of Foreign Languages (SOFL) in Selcuk University participated in the study. Two groups, control and experimental group, each consisting of 15 students were formed at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yildirim, Ozen – Online Submission, 2017
Reading comprehension skills is in the basic skills that are tried to gain in students. It is likely that a person who has not reached the reading comprehension skill will face many difficulties, whether in daily life or professional life. In the study, the characteristics of school environment of different countries have been determined and the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cross Cultural Studies, School Size, Foreign Countries
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Razi, Salim – Online Submission, 2012
This study presents the processes of developing and establishing reliability and validity of a reading test by administering an integrative approach as conventional reliability and validity measures superficially reveals the difficulty of a reading test. In this respect, analysing vocabulary frequency of the test is regarded as a more eligible way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Tests, Test Validity
Sahin, Ismet – Online Submission, 2006
The Ministry of National Education in Turkey initiated a new early reading instruction method in 2004. Analytical approach (Whole Language), as defined in the curriculum, was abandoned and phoneme based approach (Phonics) was introduced. This research has a two year longitudinal perspective and aims to collect the opinions of teachers about the…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Early Reading, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries