Abstract
LISTENING ANXIETIES OF TURKISH LANGUAGE TEACHER CANDIDATES
Listening has a significant role on daily communication of an individual. For this reason, physical, cognitive and psychological elements of listening skills need to be defined correctly and improved. This study aims at identifying listening anxieties of Turkish language teacher candidates. Later on, their listening anxieties were investigated according to gender, reading habits, computer usage at home, mobile internet usage, preferred language skills. The study is a survey type research study. The sample of the study consisted of 150 teacher candidates who studied in Turkish Language Department in School of Education at Giresun University in 2015-2016 education year.
The study found that most Turkish language teacher candidates had listening anxieties below the average.
Keywords
Language, listening, listening anxiety, Turkish language teacher candidate.