The relationship between candidate teachers’ communication skills and their attitudes towards teaching profession

AbstractThe aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between candidate teachers’ communication skills and their attitudes towards teaching profession. This research is a descriptive study and the sample for the research consists of students at the departments of Turkish language teaching at the universities in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The instruments used to collect the data for the research were “Teacher Communication Skills Scale” and “Scale for Attitudes towards Teaching Profession”. The data obtained was analyzed using the statistical analysis, standart deviation, The Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient and independent samples t-test techniques were used. As a result of the research, significant difference in communication skills and affection sub-dimension was determined according to gender independent variable; it was also determined that there is a significant correlation in a positive way between communication skills and affection sub-dimension; between communication skills and harmony sub-dimension; and between communication skills and attitude towards teaching profession