Abstract:

This study aims to examine the reading motivations of Turkish teacher candidates in terms of various variables. The study, in which a quantitative research approach was adopted, was conducted with the screening model. The study group consists of 219 students studying at the Turkish Education Department of the Faculty of Education of Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University in the fall semester of the 2018-2019 academic year. "The Adult Reading Motivation Scale," developed by Schutte and Malouff (2007) and translated into Turkish by Yıldız et al. (2013), was used in the study as the data collection tool. As all data obtained from the study were distributed normally, parametric tests were used in data analysis. It was seen in the study that the reading motivation of the teachers differed significantly according to the factors of gender, whether there was a library / bookcase at home, the number of books read per year, and whether there was someone reading book at home under the sub-dimension "Self"; according to the factors of family's income level and the number of books read per year under the sub-dimension "Competence"; according to the factors of grade and the number of books read per year under the sub-dimension of "Recognition"; and according to the factors of the number of books read per year and whether there was someone reading book at home under the sub-dimension "Other".

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