Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the prospective students' habits of the following newspaper and magazine and to determine the relationships between these habits and media literacy levels. The research model has the features of descriptive-relational survey model, one of the general survey models. The population consists of prospective primary teachers who are studying at all education faculties in Turkey. Sample of study consists of 579 prospective primary school teachers of department of primary school teacher education in Adnan Menderes University. "Media and Television Literacy Levels Scale" developed by Korkmaz and Yesil (2011) were used to collect data in the research after getting the necessary permissions. As a result of the research, it can be said that females' habits of following newspapers and journals are superior to males' habits, and fourth grade prospective teachers level of media literacy is higher than first grade prospective teachers. There is a significant and positive relationship between prospective teachers' habit of following journals and their media literacy level and also, it has been found that prospective teachers' habit of following newspaper predicts their media literacy levels.