Pre-Service Classroom Teachers’ Reading Interests And Habits

The aim of this research is to determine pre-service classroom teachers’ reading interests and habits with respect to various variables. To this aim, the research was designed in the descriptive pattern using relational screening model. In the research, 157 pre-service classroom teachers from the Faculty of Education of a university in central Anatolia participated. Data were analyzed using independent samples t-test, one-way variance analysis, Tukey test and chi square (χ^2) test. It was found, at the end of the research, that pre-service teachers’ reading interest scores do not differ with respect to the variables of gender, type of education, type of previous educational institution, income level and father’s educational background, whereas it was found that these scores significantly differ between participants whose mothers’ have different educational backgrounds.