Özet:

The study aims to identify the writing and book reading motivations of primary school fourth grade students, to study the gender of students, the state of reading of newspapers/magazines and the level of writing and book reading motivations that influences the academic success of the Turkish course. The research method was used as a relational scan scheme. In the 2014-2015 educational year, 262 primary school fourth-class students who studied in the district centre of Kırıkkale participated in the research. As a data collection tool, Personal Information Form, Book Reading Motivation Scale and Writing Motivation Scale were used. More than half of the students who participated in the study read newspapers/magazines; elevated levels of motivation to read books and low levels of motivation to write. In the explanation of the academic success of the Turkish lesson, the result is that the motivation for reading is an important, the motivation for writing is an unimportant variable. When the motivation for writing and the variables of the state of reading of the newspaper/magazine are stable, there is a positive link between the motivation for reading of the book and the academic success of the Turkish class. When the book reading motivation and writing motivation variables are stable, a low-level positive relationship between the state of newspaper/magazine reading and the academic success of the Turkish lesson has been identified. The importance of the course in the field of academic success is in the form of the motivation for reading books, the state of reading newspapers/magazines and the motivation for writing. Considering the positive relationship between the motivation for reading and the academic success of the Turkish lesson, studies can be done to increase the motivation for students to read books. Research can also be designed to determine the reasons why students have a low motivation to write and to increase their motivation to write.

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