A CASE STUDY ON READING HABITS OF SENIOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Students of faculty of letters are expected to have a certain level of reading habits both as an internal factor in intellectual development, and as a requirement of their department. expectations from students in foreign language departments about the necessity of reading foreign language books and text types have increased recently. this descriptive survey study aimed to investigate the native and foreign language reading habits of 107 senior students in tekirdağ namık kemal university, faculty of arts and letters, german, french and english literature departments.. to this aim, a survey of 12 qualitative and quantitative questions was developed and administered to the participants prepared. findigs showed that students fell into the category of advanced and moderate level readers in both native and foreign language. however, text types read in native and foreign language differed. whereas students tended to read native language novels more in published form, they prefered to read different foreign language different text types in digital media. one of the most significant reasons reported for reading in a foreign language was to develop foreign language knowledge. it was also found that the most encouraging factor for students in literature departments was the lecturers. one of the most important results of the survey is that students wantd to choose the reading text themselves. almost half the participants stated that they did not enjoy reading compulsory texts as a requirement of courses and found it unnecessary.