ATTITUDES OF PROSPECTIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS TOWARDS LEARNING A SECOND FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Abstract

In this study it was aimed to scrutinize the attitudes of prospective teachers of foreignlanguages towards learning a second foreign language. The data were collected via “AttitudeScale Towards Second Foreign Language” developed by Çetin et.al. (2019) from a total of 300student teachers of foreign languages in Gazi University Ankara. Out of these 300 studentteachers, 206 were female and 94 were male. The study adopted the survey method and wasconducted during the Spring Semester of 2018-2019 academic year. For the data analysesconducted via SPSS package program, t-test and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) fromparametric tests were conducted. In addition, the effect size values were calculated in order todetermine the effect of independent variables on the attitudes of participants towards learninga second foreign language. At the end of the study it was observed that attitude scores of theprospective teachers of foreign languages were high 71% of the participant prospectiveteachers obtained scores between this score interval. Also, it was found that attitude scores ofprospective teachers differed in accordance with their gender, grade, academic success,attaching importance to learning a language, department perception and attaching importanceto second foreign language activities.