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This study aims to compare the reading comprehension skills of the bilingual students studying at the 4th Grade of the Primary School with the monolingual students studying at the 4th Grade. With this purpose, 303 students were included from the Black Sea Region, where mainly monolingual students studied and 247 students were included from the Eastern and South-eastern Regions, where bilingual students studied. Furthermore, in order to expand the scope of the research, it was intended to find out the views of class teachers about the reading comprehension skills of bilingual students. So in the research, the mixed method and the parallel pattern converging from the patterns of the mixed method were used. The research result presented a significant difference between the reading comprehension skills of the monolingual 4th grade students from the Black Sea Region and the students from the Eastern and South-eastern Regions. This difference was in favour of the monolingual students. On the other hand, reading comprehension skills of the 4th graders in the Eastern and South-eastern Regions did not significantly differ within itself depending on bilingualism.
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Monolingual individuals are those who can only speak and understand one language, while bilingual individuals can speak and understand two languages. This research aims to determine whether there is a notable distinction in the reading skills of Grade 4 pupils between those who are bilingual and those who are monolingual. The focus areas of comparison include fluency, accuracy, intonation, and expression. The data collection method involved structured observations of Grade 4 pupils in a face-to-face setting at the Elementary School. The study included the entire Grade 4 population, with 18 monolingual and 22 bilingual students as respondents. The findings showed that bilingual students demonstrated strong phonics skills, surpassing their monolingual counterparts. On the other hand, monolingual students excelled in word accuracy and displayed good proficiency in expression. The results indicate a significant difference in the reading abilities of bilingual and monolingual Grade 4 pupils, particularly in phonics, fluency, accuracy, and expression. Thus, it is recommended to prioritize regular reading assessments for both bilingual and monolingual students to enhance their reading skills.
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Factors Related to the Reading Comprehension Skills of 4th Grade Students According to Data of PIRLS 2001 Turkey2015 •
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Bilingualism and reading proficiency: Experiences of Armenian, Persian and Azeri student.The study presented here is an attempt to investigate the role of bilingualism in EFL students' reading comprehension proficiency, and to that end six classes of three high schools were randomly chosen. These high schools were Soghomonian (Armenian bilinguals), Taleghani (Turkish bilinguals) and Ershad (Persian monolinguals). They were given a questionnaire and a reading comprehension test and the obtained data were analysed through one-way analysis of variance test. The performance of the three groups was significantly different. Tukey's HSD showed that the Armenian bilingual group was the first and best group and the Persian monolingual group was the second one; however, the Turkish bilingual group was the poor third. The results suggest that L1 literacy practices of the Armenian bilinguals have worked to their advantage to the extent that they have outperformed the other two groups. This has not been the case with the Turkish bilinguals whose lack of L1 practices has worked to their detriment.
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Bilingual versus Monolingual Learners’ Reading Comprehension Ability Regarding their Interest in Reading Comprehension Topics2013 •
Comprehension is the main purpose of reading and involves three factors: the reader, the text, and the context in which the text is read. However, not everybody reaches comprehension. Perhaps there is a lack of interest from the reader, the text is not appropriate or simply the reader does not use the strategies needed to obtain meaning. Being aware of reading comprehension strategies will make students become effective readers thanks to cognitive, metacognitive and sociaffective processes. This paper describes the methodology applied to identify the reading strategies used by bilingual students in high school and the interpretation of data obtained in a first approach. Also, it shows the future work needed to validate the data from the questionnaries applied.
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This study was conducted to assess reading proficiency of first grade students at Turkish-Persian bilingual and Persian monolingual regions. The research design was survey-descriptive and the sample was selected through cluster sampling which emcompassed 20 classes including 300 first grade students. Shafiei et al.’s (1387) Inventory Reading Test (IRT), was employed to assess participants’ comprehension, accuracy and fluency; Soleimani and Dastjerdy’s (1389) phonological awareness test was employed to measure phonological awareness differences; and a research made questionnaire based on Nematzade et al.’s (1390) study was used to achieve participants’ vocabulary repertoire. The results through independent t test indicated significant differences in accuracy and fluency between bilingual and monolingual students. However, there were not significant differences among reading comprehension, phonological awareness, vocabulary repertoire of bilingual and monolingual students. To indicate...
International Journal of New Trends in Social Sciences
Bilingualism and reading proficiency: Experiences of Armenian, Persian and Azeri students2020 •
The study presented here is an attempt to investigate the role of bilingualism in EFL students’ reading comprehension proficiency, and to that end six classes of three high schools were randomly chosen. These high schools were Soghomonian (Armenian bilinguals), Taleghani (Turkish bilinguals) and Ershad (Persian monolinguals). They were given a questionnaire and a reading comprehension test and the obtained data were analysed through one-way analysis of variance test. The performance of the three groups was significantly different. Tukey’s HSD showed that the Armenian bilingual group was the first and best group and the Persian monolingual group was the second one; however, the Turkish bilingual group was the poor third. The results suggest that L1 literacy practices of the Armenian bilinguals have worked to their advantage to the extent that they have outperformed the other two groups. This has not been the case with the Turkish bilinguals whose lack of L1 practices has worked t...
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The study of reading fluency and reading comprehension skills of primary school students whose mother tongue is different2020 •
The purpose of this research is to analyse reading fluency and comprehension skills of different mother tongue of primary school students in the 4th grade. The effects of variables such as mother tongue and gender were examined in reading fluency and comprehension skills of different primary school students whose mother tongue is different. The working group of the study was selected by criterion sampling from the purposeful sampling methods among the students studying in primary schools in the province of Tuşba in Van. The working group consists of 201 female and 227 males, a total of 428 students. In the research, ‘Narrative Text’ collected data about reading fluency; ‘Multidimensional Fluency Scale’ measured reading prosody skills; and ‘Reading Comprehension Test’ was used to determine the reading comprehension levels. According to the findings, the students were generally divided into two groups: those whose mother tongue is Turkish, and those who is Kurdish. As a result of the ...
European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Role of Bilingualism and Personal Variables in Reading Literacy Performance of Bilingual Students Based on the PIRLS Study (2001)2013 •
Today, bilingualism and multilingualism are a global phenomenon and almost rarely, a country can be found in which at least population of its small part does not speak two or more languages. Bilingualism or multilingualism is one of the crucial problems of educational system that has created numerous challenges in formal education especially in the early years. The main purpose of the training curriculum is noticing reinforcing and training skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. Among the language skills, reading skill is one of the most important learning needs of students in their today life and perhaps the most important skill among school skills. Progress International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an initiative program for assessing reading ability of children in fourth grade which has been measured reading process every five years. The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of bilingualism and individual variables on bilingual students' readin...
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The aim of this study is to examine the reading comprehension scores of Turkish 5th grade students according to the variables given in the student questionnaire. In this descriptive survey study research participated 279 5th grade students, who studied at 10 different primary schools in four provinces of Ankara in 2008-2009 academic year. Two different data collection tools were made use of in the study: "Reading Comprehension Test" and "Student Information Questionnaire". Independent sample t-test, oneway Anova and two-way Anova tests were used in the analyses of the gathered data. The results of the study indicate that the reading comprehension scores of the students differ significantly according to sex of the students, the number of books in their houses, the frequency of summarizing activities on the reading text of free and the frequency reading hours provided by their teachers; but, differ not significantly according to educational level of their mothers a...
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