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The Effect of Text Types on Reading Comprehension

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dc.creator Ayfer Şahin
dc.date 2013-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:06:36Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:06:36Z
dc.identifier 2146-7951
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/f85e5cd72d684142b10c383613adb5d3
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10627
dc.identifier.uri https://doaj.org/article/f85e5cd72d684142b10c383613adb5d3
dc.description Aim of this study, is to determine the effect of narrative and informative text types on Reading Comprehension levels of Primary Education 4th and 5th grade students. Application was fulfilled in 2011-2012 academic year with 134 students in a primary education school in Province Kırşehir. Reading comprehension tests prepared according to text types were used as data collection tool of the study. T-Test was used for associated samples when comparing reading comprehension marks of the students according to text types and T-test was used for unrelated samples when comparing reading comprehension marks of the students according to sex. In Comparisons, significance level is adopted as .05. As a result of the study it is determined that students understand narrative texts better than informative texts they read. Furthermore there is a significant difference in favour of female students between the narrative texts reading comprehension marks of male and female students for all tests except from 5th grade informative texts.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Mevlana University Educational Faculty
dc.relation http://mije.mevlana.edu.tr/archieve/issue_3_2/6_mije_13_27_volume_3_issue_2_page_57_67_PDF.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2146-7951
dc.source Mevlana International Journal of Education, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 57-67 (2013)
dc.subject Reading comprehension
dc.subject text
dc.subject text type
dc.subject narrative text
dc.subject informative text.
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title The Effect of Text Types on Reading Comprehension
dc.type Article


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