@article{2013,title={AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF READING SKILLS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE READING},abstractNode={It’s seen that the concept of ‘globalization’ will mostly come out and be discussed in 21st century. With the globalization the world become a small city in many areas; technological developments make the world trade easier, scientific developments display the necessity of the change in the competition or the wars among the countries. The world humans’ collective living styles make the importance of foreign language wider. In Turkey there were various steps until today in the area of teaching foreign language, the fundamental development has carried on since 1997. With the 8 year compulsory education in primary schools, foreign language teaching, although it is not official, has gone down to kindergarten. While there are various discussions about foreign language teaching, one of the most discussed subject is the beginning age of foreign language teaching. Scientists seem to be separated in this subject; the one that defends foreign language education has to begin from the early ages and the one that defends foreign language education has to begin after the consciousness of native language. In whatever way it occurs, a relationship is supposed between native language skills and foreign language skill, because the common point is language and the same skills are expected in both. This study investigates the effects of native language reading skills on learned second language with the aim of defining whether native language skills effects second language teaching. This study aims to determine B and C level prepatory students’ in The School Of Foreign Languages reading skills in native language whether effect foreign language reading. Through this aim the answers of the following questions are searched: 1. Is there a meningful relation between second language English learners’ reading skills in native language and learned language reading skills? 2. Do reading skills in native language and learned language vary according to students’ gender, departments and levels? The study is modelled as relational survey method and the universe of the study is the students of Erciyes University -The School Of Foreign Languages in the 2009-2010 and 2011 -2012 academic year. In the study with 2017 participants, reading texts in two languages and questions related to these texts are given to students, and then the students are asked to answer these questions. Then the relation between the marks is investigated through the variables in the second section. The data is},author={Mustafa DURMUŞÇELEBİ},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}