Abstract :
One of the most important groups of a society, who are supposed to speak correctly, beautifully and efficiently is the teachers. Because the speech problems of a teacher, for the most part, affects the society but particularly the students and thus causes the students who survive speech problems to be raised. Identifying the speech problems of teacher candidates can be a starting point for solving those problems. The purpose of this research is to reveal the “speech problems” of teacher candidates. The data of the research has been obtained by asking the open-ended question “What are your speech problems?” to 101 of fourth-year students of the Faculty of Education of Adıyaman University in the 2011-2012 education term. As a result of examining the data by Content Analysis, it has been identified that the candidates have speech problems arising from reasons such as sound, tone, emphasis, pronunciation failing, psychological (being unable to speak in front of a community, being unable to speak with close friends), speech hesitancy, being unable to fulfill the rules of grammar, lack of knowledge, difficulty to focus on speech, have those problems caused by physical reasons and social obstacles. In order to minimize the identified speech problems of candidates, as the trainings such as drama, theater, and pantomime can be performed, classes like elocution and effective speaking as well as oral expression classes can also be take place in Education Faculties.
