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This study aimed to examine the effects of listening to music while reading on reading comprehension performance. A total of 129 eighth grade students participated voluntarily in the study. The randomized posttest-only control group design was adopted in the study. The results demonstrated that the reading comprehension performance of the students who read the text while listening to their non-favored music without lyrics, non-favored music with lyrics, and favored music with lyrics were significantly poorer than those who did not listen to music while reading the same text. The results also showed that the reading comprehension performance of the students who read the text while listening to their favored music without lyrics did not significantly differ from the reading performance of the students who read the same text without music. Implications for education and directions for future studies were also discussed.  

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