A CASE STUDY AND THE NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR DETERMINING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' READING SKILLS

Abstract

This study aims to determine the secondary school students' conditions and needs about reading and reading comprehension skills. According to this aim, the research process was structured as a case study that identifies reading and reading comprehension problems. Therefore, the research process was prepared according to the holistic-single case design of the case study. The research question is focused on: What are the secondary school students' needs regarding the problems they face in reading and reading comprehension processes? In this context, qualitative and quantitative data were collected through questionnaires, observation forms and semi-structured interviews to determine the students’ needs and to make analyzes via these data. Quantitative data were collected from 307 secondary school students. Then, qualitative data were obtained from the participants who were identified as homogeneous sampling in this group. The data collected during eight weeks were analyzed by the quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods. According to the results of the analysis, it was found out that the students were affected by the factors that affect reading comprehension, physical factors that affect reading, reading difficulties and reading and reading comprehension problems. According to these findings, it was determined that the students have commonly the reading problems such as not caring about reading comprehension, lack of expectation against reading, get bored from the reading process, tiredness from reading, distraction, skipping reading, making habit of reading problems, not knowing punctuation, mixing letters. Based on these problems, students' needs for reading and reading comprehension were determined. To meet students' needs, suggestions were given on how reading and reading comprehension education to be designed. Article visualizations: