Abstract:

The main purpose of the research is to find out the attitude levels of the student music teachers towards practicing their main instrument and to investigate the differences of these attitude levels in relation to several variables such as sex, class level, type of instrument. The sample of the research consists of 77 students, who are attending first and fourth class at Marmara University Faculty of Education Music Department in the 2013-2014 academic year. In this research ‘The Attitude Scale Towards Instrument Practice’, developed by Özmenteş (2007), has been used. The attitudes of student music teachers towards practicing their main instrument have been found considerably positive. Statistically meaninful differences have been found between the attitudes of student music teachers towards practising their main instrument and their class level (in favor of freshman), the time they spent on practicing the instrument in a day, self efficacy levels of their instrument performance. On t

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