Abstract:

Primary school years, which is a critical period for reading habits, in gaining the love and habit of reading to students and the roles of Turkısh language teacher who teach at these levels are gaining importance day by day. The purpose of this research is to examine the reading habits of secondary school students in line with the opinions of Turkısh language teacher. In this sense, in order to examine the reading habits of secondary school students in depth, qualitative research method and phenomenology research design suitable for this method were used in this study. The study group of the research consisted of 19 Turkısh language teacher who were determined according to criterion sampling methods,one of the purposive sampling methods. To collect the research, it was carried out using a semi-structured interview form, which is one of the qualitative research techniques. The content analysis technique, one of the qualitative data analysis methods, was used in the analysis of the data obtained as a result of the interviews. According to the results of this survey; the reading habits of secondary school students are at a weak level. The high level of education of parents is a factor that increases students reading habits. Children of economically well-off parents have more reading habits than others. Watching television and technological communication tools were seen as the obstacles to the students reading habits. Mostly; family, teachers and friends came to the fore as effective factors in gaining reading habits of students. All of the Turkısh language teacher participating in the study stated that there is a direct proportional relationship between the reading habits of secondary school students and their academic success. Turkısh language teacher made suggestions mostly to schools, then to teachers and families, in order to help students gain the habit of reading.

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