A Qualitative Research on the Behaviors’ of Students With Reading Difficulties in the Classroom

Abstract

In this study, the undesirable behaviors of students who have reading difficulties in primary school were examined and it was aimed to develop solutions in line with the opinions of the teachers about these undesirable behaviors. In this study, where a case study pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods, is used, the situations related to the undesirable behaviors of the students who have reading difficulties are tried to be described. Teachers' opinions were obtained through interview questions developed by the researchers. 15 primary school classroom teachers who have students with reading difficulties in their class participated in the research by criterion sampling. The data of the research were analyzed by content analysis method. According to the opinions of the teachers obtained in the research, students who have reading difficulties exhibit behaviors such as grudge, aggressive movements, cutting paper, dealing with other things, not following while reading and display drawing attention behaviors in the classroom. According to the results obtained, it was concluded that students with reading difficulties exhibit undesirable behaviors such as introversion, inadequacy, and hurtfulness in the classroom, and in order to eliminate these undesired behaviors, it is necessary to eliminate these students' reading difficulties and give the student a sense of accomplishment.