ABSTRACT

The current research aimed to explore the relations between preservice teachers’ reader beliefs and reading comprehension skills. With this overall aim of the present study, this research sample consisted of a total of 241 preservice teachers studying at department of elementary classroom teaching profession in Turkey’s Mugla province. Reader beliefs inventory and reading comprehension test were used to gather the data from the preservice teachers. SEM analyses were used to find required answers in response to the research aims. The research findings showed that while transmission reader beliefs had the negative contribution to the prediction of reading comprehension, the transaction reader beliefs had the positive contribution to the prediction of reading comprehension skills of the preservice teachers. The results of the study were discussed through related scientific literature and it was given the important implications for the future research and educational practices.