Research Article

Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language

Volume: 7 Number: 1 April 15, 2017
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Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language

Abstract

The purposes of this study are to reveal the relationship between reading anxiety and comprehension skills of learners of Turkish as a foreign language. In accordance with this goal, who are learning Turkish as a foreign language at B level, were enrolled in the sample. To collect data, “Reading Anxiety Scale” and “Comprehension Achievement Test” were developed for the students learning Turkish as a foreign language at B level. According to the results obtained from the whole of the scale, it was found that the students learning Turkish as a foreign language at B level got on average 46,92 in comprehension anxiety. It was found that the relationship between the scores, the students got at Comprehension Test and the ones they got from Comprehension Anxiety Test and its all subscales, were negative with between -,069 -,275, and that there was not a significant relationship between only in the "comprehension anxiety" subscale of Reading Anxiety Scale and comprehension achievement test scores, and that there was significant difference in other correlation  coefficients. In the light of all these results, it was found that there is an inverse correlation between the scores got from comprehension achievement test and the ones got from reading anxiety scale, and that the achievement score obtained from comprehension test decreased as the reading anxiety increased.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

İlhan Erdem This is me

Publication Date

April 15, 2017

Submission Date

September 20, 2016

Acceptance Date

April 19, 2017

Published in Issue

Year 2017 Volume: 7 Number: 1

APA
Altunkaya, H., & Erdem, İ. (2017). Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language. Sakarya University Journal of Education, 7(1), 59-77. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.307045
AMA
1.Altunkaya H, Erdem İ. Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language. SUJE. 2017;7(1):59-77. doi:10.19126/suje.307045
Chicago
Altunkaya, Hatice, and İlhan Erdem. 2017. “Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish As a Foreign Language”. Sakarya University Journal of Education 7 (1): 59-77. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.307045.
EndNote
Altunkaya H, Erdem İ (April 1, 2017) Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language. Sakarya University Journal of Education 7 1 59–77.
IEEE
[1]H. Altunkaya and İ. Erdem, “Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language”, SUJE, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 59–77, Apr. 2017, doi: 10.19126/suje.307045.
ISNAD
Altunkaya, Hatice - Erdem, İlhan. “Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish As a Foreign Language”. Sakarya University Journal of Education 7/1 (April 1, 2017): 59-77. https://doi.org/10.19126/suje.307045.
JAMA
1.Altunkaya H, Erdem İ. Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language. SUJE. 2017;7:59–77.
MLA
Altunkaya, Hatice, and İlhan Erdem. “Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish As a Foreign Language”. Sakarya University Journal of Education, vol. 7, no. 1, Apr. 2017, pp. 59-77, doi:10.19126/suje.307045.
Vancouver
1.Hatice Altunkaya, İlhan Erdem. Reading Anxiety and Reading Comprehension Skills of Learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language. SUJE. 2017 Apr. 1;7(1):59-77. doi:10.19126/suje.307045

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