Gençer, Y., & Çetinkaya, G. (2015). Investigating the relationship between connectives and readers' reading comprehension level. Reading Improvement, 52(2), 39-50.

Gençer, Y.; Çetinkaya, G.

2015

Gençer, Y., & Çetinkaya, G. (2015). Investigating the relationship between connectives and readers' reading comprehension level. Reading Improvement, 52(2), 39-50.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between connectives in Turkish texts and readers’ reading comprehension. Research was conducted with a total of 50 teachers. In the study group, readers’ reading comprehension was determined through 10 descriptive texts by using open-ended questions. The results of the analysis revealed that, while there is no statistically significant correlation between the reading comprehension scores of the good readers and the numbers of the connectives such as temporal, causal, adversative and additive in the texts forming the study database, a negative correlation was found between the reading comprehension scores of the poor readers and concession connectives at the level of r = -0.805 (p>0.05) and the connectives expressing expansion at the level of r = -0.647 (p>0.05).

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