Analysis of the Levels of Teacher Candidates’ Reading Comprehension and Use of Reading Strategies (Example of Van)

Abstract

In this study, the levels of teacher candidates in reading comprehension and use of reading strategies are researched. The problem sentence in this study includes “relation between the success of teacher candidates in reading comprehension and the level of use of reading strategies.” As it is seen in the problem sentence, the study tries to determine whether the levels of teacher candidates in reading comprehension and use of reading strategies differ in terms of department, gender and academic success points. 300 senior students in the departments of Turkish Language, Science Teaching in Primary Education, Primary School Teaching, Social Science Teaching and Biology Teaching during 2013-2014 teaching period are identified as the study group.        In this research, relational screening model is used. Data is collected by using reading comprehension tests and reading strategies scale. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic average, correlation, ANOVA and t-test are used for the analysis of the data. Turkish Language teacher candidates take the first place among all departments in reading comprehension and use of reading strategies. Both in terms of reading comprehension and use of reading strategies, the study reveals a significant difference between genders in favour of female teacher candidates.

Keywords: Reading, reading comprehension, reading strategies