Study of the relationship between expression styles and reading comprehension

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between narrative styles and reading comprehension. The study involved 20 students studying in the fourth grade of a primary school in the central town of Afyonkarahisar province. In the research, one group pretest-posttest weak experimental pattern model, which is one of the experimental methods, was used. In the study, qualitative data was collected together with quantitative data to ensure data diversity and qualitative research method was used. In the study, students were asked to describe the book with a narrative style determined by themselves. During the study, data was collected through researcher's diary, researcher observations and notes, student and parent semi-structured interview form, photo and audio recordings, Reading Comprehension Success Test and Reading Comprehension Success Persistence Test. The application process of the research took twelve weeks. In the study, the data obtained from the number of expression styles used by the students and the number of pages of the books they read were analyzed using Descriptive Statistics, One Way Variance Analysis (ANOVA) and Tukey Test. In order to determine whether there were any significant differences between the pre-test, final test and persistence test, the Dependent (Related) Groups t Test was administered. Descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of qualitative data. At the end of the study, ıt was determined that the students used Oral Expression, Summary Extraction, Visual Expression, Poetry Writing, Question and Answer, Test Preparation, Acrostıc, Singing and Pantomime expression styles. The most common expression style used by the students was Oral Expression, while the least used expression style was Acrostıc. It was concluded that explaining the book with the style of expression that the students wanted improved the students 'own narrative styles, reading and understanding skills, and created the desire and habit of reading in the students. Keywords: Expression style, Reading comprehension, Reading habit