THE RELATIONSHIP OF FLUENT READING SKILLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH READING COMPREHENSION, READING ATTITUDE AND ANXIETY DURING THE COVID-19 PROCESS

ABSTRACT

The covid-19 pandemic, which affects life in every way, has inevitably had repercussions on education. The fact that schools are closed for a long time and education is continued remotely has become a variable that affects the academic achievements of students. In this context, the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on reading and reading comprehension, which are language skills, has been a matter of curiosity. The research aims to determine the effect of fluent reading skills of secondary school students on reading comprehension and their relationship with reading attitude and anxiety during the covid-19 pandemic process. The target group of the study is 300 students who are at the level of the fifth and eighth grades. In the research, student recognition form, reading attitude scale, reading anxiety scale, informative and narrative reading texts, multidimensional fluency scale, reading comprehension test and audio recordings were used as data collection tools. The data of the research were collected in accordance with the scanning method, the obtained data were transferred to the SPSS program and analyzed. In the results section of students ' reading skills and fluency without the required level of reading comprehension, reading fluency and reading comprehension skills of the students to be more successful in Girl, eighth grade students were higher than the positive attitudes of fifth grade students, it was determined that anxiety and reading. The results obtained at the end of the study were compared with the literature and some suggestions were made. (English) [ FROM AUTHOR]