Abstract:

The research was conducted in order to determine the free time activites of the Turkish teacher candidates who are studying in thedepartment of Turkish language teaching of Gazi University. For his purpose, 152 Turkish teacher candidate sstudying in the Turkish language teaching department of Gazi University constitute the study universe. Survey form wasused as data collection tool. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS statistical package program and frequency and percentage distributions were presented and interpreted in tabular form. Accordingt other findings of the research, it is observed that most of the teacher candidates follow a television program followed by literary novels, personal development, adventure, educational book types among thebook types they prefertoread, half of the teacher candidates do not have any club membership, relaxation, entertainment, history and visiting the tourist places.Teacher candidates have identified their technological tools as smartphones, laptop computers, computersand plasma televisions.

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