Abstract:

In this quantitative study, Turkish teacher candidates are surveyed to assess their listening styles in terms of the variables as gender, grade level, education type and taking listening course. This research was implemented in scanning model. Target study group was composed of 2011-2012 fall semester Erciyes University Education Faculty Turkish teacher candidates (n=376). Listening Style Inventory (LSI) developed by Lu (2005) and adapted Turkish by Maden and Durukan (2011) was used in order to identify Turkish teacher candidates’ listening styles. The research findings were analyzed through frequency and Chisquare techniques in SPSS 16.0. As a result of the study, 180 of Turkish teacher candidates are inactive listeners, 177 of Turkish teacher candidates are participating listeners, 16 of Turkish teacher candidates are active listeners and 3 of Turkish teacher candidates are neutral listeners. It is found that there was no significant difference between Turkish teacher candidates’ listening styles and the variables as gender, grade level, education type and taking listening course

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