THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING ON FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION
SINIF İÇİ SERBEST OKUMA SAATLERININ AKICI OKUMA VE OKUDUĞUNU ANLAMA BECERILERI UZERINE ETKILERI

Author : Sevinç YERLİ USUL
Number of pages : 375-382

Abstract

This study aimed at finding the effects of extensive reading on students’ reading fluency and comprehension. For this study, with the participation of 32 pre-intermediate level university prep students, a-8-week experiment was conducted. During the experiment, the researcher asked the participants to read graded readers which were chosen by them according to their interest and level of proficiency. Every week, the students were given a separate lesson hour to do the extensive reading. Both at the outset and end of the experiment, a reading passage was given to the participants to test their comprehension and fluency. In order to test fluency “word counting” was preferred, and some comprehension questions were used to see how much they understood from what they read. At the end of the experiment, the results of two trials were compared by utilizing repeated measures t-tests, and the difference between them was found to be statistically significant. In other words, the results of this study revealed that extensive reading practice was helpful to improve L2 readers’ reading fluency. Furthermore, in order to see the relationship between fluency and comprehension, Pearson correlation analysis was conducted and a strong relationship between these variables was also reported.

Keywords

extensive reading, fluency, comprehension, prep class

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