This study investigated demographic profiles, reading characteristics and processes of good and poor young adult readers. Data were collected from 149 undergraduate students studying at a state university in Türkiye through a questionnaire set and eye-tracking experiments. Groups of this study - good and poor readers - were defined according to…

Reading, which improves language and mental skills, is the most effective way to reach information from the past to the present. The study tried to determine the relationship between the metacognitive reading awareness, reading intrinsic motivations, and reading motivations of eighth-grade students. The study group consists of 132 eighth-grade…

In this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of Turkish instruction conducted with the KWL (KWL is a strategy. The approximate acronym stands for "What I Know," "What I Want to Know," and "What I Learned." Many students and teachers also use it as a reading comprehension aid) strategy on the reading…

The main objective of the present study is to determine the type and frequency of reading strategies (RSs) used by Turkish EFL students. Besides, this study aims to find out a) whether there is a gender difference in terms of RS use, b) whether there is a relationship between self-reported RS use and reading self-efficacy. A total of 211…

The study aims to investigate the attitudes of Turkish language teaching and primary education pre-service teachers towards digital reading in terms of various variables. The study was carried out in the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 330 pre-service teachers, 230…

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between prospective teachers' metacognitive reading strategies and their reading habits. The study was designed in correlation model. The sample of the study was determined by simple random sampling. The sample of the study consists of 506 prospective teachers out of which 255 are on…

The aim of this qualitative case study was to determine the cognitive and metacognitive strategies used by the Secondary School 6th grade students while reading science texts in a Biology unit titled "Support and Motor System", and to compare these strategies in accordance with the type of their school (private or state school), their…

This study aims to identify the effect of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies on self-efficacy perception in reading comprehension of secondary school students and whether self-efficacy perception in reading comprehension of secondary school students differs according to the variables such as their gender and reading habits. In this…

There has been less research available on the integration of metacognitive reading strategies into regular English courses in high schools. Therefore, this action research study was a modest attempt to search the impacts of a reading strategy instruction on students' metacognitive awareness. To this end, a 10-week metacognitive reading strategy…

The study investigated reading strategies used by prospective foreign language teachers studying at a foreign language department of an education faculty in Turkey. It was explored how these strategies differ in view of the variables such as gender, department, education experience, and proficiency levels. For this aim, the Reading Strategy Use…

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of reading strategies instruction on the reading achievement of learners of the French and to identify the views of the participants on the effect of said strategies. Research Methods: To achieve that objective, a one-group pretest-posttest model was used. The participants were 32 Turkish…

Metacognitive awareness in reading has been subject to much concern in various language levels and learning environments. This study aims to explore university students' metacognitive awareness of reading strategies in English as a foreign language from both qualitative and quantitative aspects. The study adopted a mixed method approach to explore…

In this study, the aim is to measure the effect of students' reading strategies and attitudes towards Turkish language on reading habits. 323 first grade students receiving education in 2014-2015 semester in International Antalya University located at the center of Antalya were involved in the study. As the method, relational screening model was…

The aim of this study is to analyze the level of Turkish language pre-service teachers metacognitive reading strategy use by various variables. Relational screening model is used in the study. Participants are 342 Turkish language pre-service teachers studying in the Turkish Language Education Program of a university located in the Western part of…

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,…