Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, EĞİTİM BİLİMLERİ ENSTİTÜSÜ, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2017
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Öğrenci: Kıymet Selin Armağan
Danışman: ZÜBEYDE SİNEM GENÇ
Özet:Reading has always been one of the most substantial topics in learning and teaching languages, as it is crucial to improve reading to become proficient in a language. A great number of studies have been carried out to clarify subskills and processes that are involved in reading process; several theories about improving reading skills have been put forward. Reading fluency has been discussed in detail and claimed to be crucial to become proficient readers. The highlight on reading fluency in native language (L1) has born questions about reading in a foreign language (FL). However, despite abundance of studies related to L1 reading, there is an obvious scarcity of studies on FL reading fluency mostly because of the complexity of reading process itself. The purpose of this study is to investigate the efficacy of timed reading practices on reading speed and reading comprehension levels of Turkish learners of English as a foreign language. 74 students participated in the study. However, 10 participants were detected as outliers via preliminary analysis, so they were left out from the analyses. The participants were divided into two groups as experimental and control groups. The experimental group received timed reading intervention for five weeks. A pre-test was applied a week before the learners started timed reading intervention and a post-test was applied one week after timed reading intervention period. The results revealed that timed reading intervention benefitted learners in terms of reading speed and reading comprehension significantly. Several implications for teaching reading in a foreign language were deduced depending on the findings of the research and the literature.