Abstract:

The aim of this study was to determine pre-service teachers’ opinions regarding writing obstacles. Participants of this study were 107 1st grade preservice teachers at Adıyaman University Faculty of Education, Department of Primary School Educa- tion. Qualitative research methods were applied in the study and data were collected via open-ended interview survey. In the analysis of data descriptive analysis tech- nique was used. Findings of the study showed that teacher candidates do not have the habits of writing. Moreover, they indicated that they wrote often the description of proverbs and phrase in writing activities in primary and secondary education lev- els. Teacher candidates also stated that they wrote more often essays and memories. Furthermore, the findings of this study demostrated that teacher candidates had neg- ative attitudes toward writing because they had to write on issues determined by the teacher in primary and secondary education. Additionally, teacher candidates em- phasized that main factors preventing the writing were lack of knowledge, experi- ence, and interest, absence of the habit of writing, inability to focus on writing, hav- ing limited vocabulary. Teacher candidates pointed out that they did not want to write because of lack of self-confidence, disliking writing, lack of motivation, and being unable to use language effectively. Finally, some suggestions were made to develop writing skills.

Keywords: