Turkish Studies - International Periodical For The Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 9/2 Winter 2014, p. 305-319, ANKARA-TURKEY DEVELOPING A CRITICAL EYE THROUGH REASONING FALLACIES * Mehmet BARDAKÇI ** Abdulvahit ÇAKIR ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to explore the impact of raising awareness about reasoning fallacies on the development of critical reading skills of the first grade students in the ELT department, Gazi Faculty of Education. It was evaluated via a 56-question reasoning fallacies test confining seven questions to each fallacy studied in this research. Although there are numerous kinds of fallacies, between 14 and 191 to be more precise, the common ones were chosen in accordance with the reasoning fallacies test for practical reasons. In addition to this, during the literature review, some other common fallacies were determined and included in this dissertation. This study compared the students trained explicitly about questioning the arguments and argumentative texts on the one side and the students in the ordinary reading classes following the regular syllabus in terms of awareness about reasoning fallacies. A true experimental design was used to collect data through pre- and post-tests. The collected data were analyzed by using independent samples t-test, Wilcoxon signed-ranks test and Mann-Whitney U-test. The experimental group consisted of 27 students and the control group consisted of 24 students. The groups were randomly selected from among ten classes. The results of the analysis revealed that there was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group and the control group after the treatment (p<0, 01). According to the results, it can be concluded that students can improve their critical reading skills through learning how to determine reasoning fallacies. In accordance with the study and its results some implications were discussed and some suggestions were made for further research. Key Words: Critical Reasoning, Reasoning Fallacies, Teaching Fallacies, Critical Reading * Bu makale Crosscheck sistemi tarafından taranmış ve bu sistem sonuçlarına göre orijinal bir makale olduğu tespit edilmiştir. ** Yrd. Doç. Dr. Gaziantep Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Yabancı Diller Eğitimi, El -mek: mbardakci@gantep.edu.tr