Türkçenin Yabanci Dil Olarak ÖğretimindeBilimsel TabanlıOkuma ve Okuma-Anlama Becerisinin Gelişimine Etkis

Abstract

A language is a living tool that allows people to communicate. Human beings learn a foreign language while preserving their language tomaintain their vitality. S/he teaches his/her language on one hand while s/he learns a foreign language.Teaching Turkish as a foreign language needs to be reconsidered in the light of new developments. In this study, while introducing the“science-based reading approach,” the contribution of this approach to students’ reading comprehension skills and its effect on academic achievement were examined. Experimental and control groups were formed, and pre-test and post-test were administered to these groups in this study. Microsoft Excel and SPSS-21 software programs were used in the analysis of the data obtained from the achievement tests. While there was no differencebetween the experimental and control groups in pre-tests, a significant difference was found in the post-test achievement test of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group. Based on this result, it can be said that the science-based reading approach has a positive effect on students’ reading comprehension skills. It is expected from Turkish language teachers to conduct new researches with different groups to obtain moreaccurate results and to compare the results.