What is the Difference between Good and Poor Young Adult Readers?

Yıldız M., Özdemir Cihan M., Kurşun E.

READING PSYCHOLOGY:AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY, cilt.45, sa.2, 2024 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 45 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2024
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/02702711.2024.2308929
  • Dergi Adı: READING PSYCHOLOGY:AN INTERNATIONAL QUARTERLY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Periodicals Index Online, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This study investigated demographic profiles, reading characteristics and processes of good and poor young adult readers. Data were collected from 149 undergraduate students studying at a state university in Turkiye through a questionnaire set and eye-tracking experiments. Groups of this study - good and poor readers - were defined according to their performance in a combination of three reading comprehension tests and an oral reading skills test. As a result, significant differences were found between good and poor young adult readers in terms of their ages, genders, the number of books they have in their libraries, and eye movements such as saccade and fixation counts, saccade length, dwell time, and regressions but no differences in their reading habits, strategies, and attitudes, parents' educational and economic levels, educational backgrounds, and saccade and fixation duration. Concentrating on several components of reading, this study thus provides a comprehensive perspective on the differences between good and poor readers.