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The purpose of this study is to investigate prospectives teachers' reading culture. The research was carried out at a public university in February and March 2019. 365 prospective teachers, including 205 primary school prospective teachers and 160 Turkish language teacher candidates, participated in the study. Reading Culture Scale was used to data collection. In the research, prospective teachers' reading culture was discussed with sub-dimensions at individual development reading relationship, basic reading skill, visual reading and book selection.In addition, the department where prospective teachers are trained, their gender and the frequency of reading books were examined as a variable.For data analysis a computer-aided statistics program was used. 25 % of prospective teachers participating in the study stated that they read every day, 27 % read once a week, 32 % read once a month, 11 % read three months ago, 3 % read six months ago. It has been revealed that prospective teachers' reading culture scores are low and there is a significant difference in favor of female candidates according to gender variable. It has been concluded that the levels of reading culture differ significantly according to the frequency of reading books and this difference is in favor of prospective teachers who read books every day.

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