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European Journal of Education Studies ISSN: 2501 - 1111 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1111 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 11 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1068227 PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ VIEWPOINTS ON READING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES OF 3RD AND 4TH GRADE PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTSi Yusuf Ergen1ii, Onur Batmaz2 1 Bayburt University, Bayburt Education Faculty, Turkey 2 Bayburt University, Rectorate, Turkey Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to determine the viewpoints of primary school teachers on difficulties experienced by 3 rd and 4th grade primary school students in reading comprehension. The study was planned in Phenomenology Design, which is one of the Qualitative Research Methods. The study group consisted of 25 primary school teachers working at 7 primary schools in the city center of Bayburt. The sampling of the study was determined with the Criterion Sampling Method, which is one of the Purposeful Sampling Methods. Semi-structured Interview Forms were used for data collection. The Descriptive Analysis Methods were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the study, it was concluded that difficulties in reading comprehension appeared in the form of difficulties in answering questions after reading a text the cause of the difficulty in reading was students’ not focusing on the meaning and teachers conducted plenty of activities suitable for the levels of students to overcome the difficulties in reading. Keywords: primary school teachers, reading, reading comprehension i This study was presented as verbal statement in IX International Education Research Congress. Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 542 Yusuf Ergen, Onur Batmaz PRIM“RY SCHOOL TE“CHERS’ VIEWPOINTS ON RE“DING COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES OF 3RD AND 4TH GRADE PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 1. Introduction One of the most important conditions of modernization in our present day is following the developments in all fields closely, and keeping pace with them. Although there are many ways to obtain information, it is believed that the most valid of these is reading Özyılmaz, . In addition, reading is also considered as the most basic element of learning-teaching processes, and as these processes proceed, reading becomes one of the most important basic skills contributing to the access to information and independent learning of it by students (Leppanen et al., 2008: 551). However, a quality reading activity is only meaningful when it ends up with comprehension. As a matter of fact, Nation (2005) claimed that the ultimate goal of reading was comprehension. Comprehension may be defined as obtaining information from sounds, words, or narrations, making inferences from the material that is read, and receiving the message intended to be conveyed (Calp, 2010: 73). For this reason, reading and comprehension concepts are closely related to each other. Demirel described this relation as humans read to understand and want to understand what they read . Ünal and Köksal (2007) emphasized that reading achieved its goal when it ended up with comprehension. In this way, a good reading process is only possible when the message intended to be conveyed in the material is understood in an accurate manner (Luma, 2002: 9). For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1235 European Journal of Education Studies - Volume 3 │ Issue 11│ 2017 543