AN ANALYSIS OF THE INFLUENCES OF HAND-WRITING TEACHING ON READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: A LINGUISTIC APPROACH
YAZMA ÖĞRETİMİNİN İLKOKUL ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN OKUMA-ANLAMA BECERİLERİ ÜZERİNE ETKİLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ: DİLBİLİMSEL BİR YAKLAŞIM

Author : Bekir SAVAŞ
Number of pages : 120-140

Abstract

Topic of this research paper is deficiencies of reading comprehension skills of Turkish students in PISA researches. According to Ministry of Education, the most important part of the problem is handwriting teaching, which has been realized through cursive writing since 2005. Therefore, from next year on, it will be replaced by manuscript writing. This research was carried out to reveal whether reading comprehension deficiencies of Turkish students are resulted from cursive teaching. Quantitative and Qualitative research methods were used together, which is very common in social science researches. 2 experiments and a questionnaire were used to find out whether there is a relation between their cursive writing and reading comprehension skills. Data were processed through SPSS program. We concluded that there is a relation between students’ hand writing skills and their reading comprehension skills. The cursive writing program failed because both students and parents regard cursive unnecessary, and teachers have had no training for teaching cursive and students have to start primary school too early. Therefore, reading comprehension problem of Turkish students did not result from due to the cursive itself but the wrong way of its teaching.

Keywords

Cursive, manuscript, teaching writing, reading comprehension

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