Abstract:

Having the characteristics given in the definition of professional teacher is directly associated with reading habit and culture. In this regard, having reading habit at a good level is important for teacher candidates who are taken as models. The purpose of this research is to determine reading habit profiles of undergraduates of Necmettin Erbakan University Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education. According to the results of the research; it was detected that most of the teacher candidates read 1-5 books, they selected “Not having reading habit” option principally among the factors preventing their reading; their reading habit did not change as to class levels distinctly; “advice from a friend” took the top place among the factors which were effective on their reading; novel and story took the top place among the genres preferred by them; reading in their department predominantly, the internet and TV lasted  less than 1 hour, hanging out with friends took 2-3 hours; the writings on the social networking sites, literary books, newspaper on internet and religious magazines were in the first four among the materials mostly preferred, most widely read Turkish writers included İskender Pala, Elif Şafak, Sinan Yağmur, Canan Tan and Reşat Nuri Güntekin; most widely read foreign writers included Khaled Hosseini, Adam Fewer, Cengiz Aytmatov, Dostoyevski and Victor Hugo.

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