Abstract
Nowadays, foreign language has become a critical need for our society with the increase of political, economic and cultural relations between the countries. For his reason, training qualified people who know a foreign language has a great importance. A major duty to train a qualified person belongs to well-equipped, self-improvement, self-reliant foreign language teachers. Teacher candidates undergo five years of professional training process and they are graduated as foreign language teacher candidate who has a professional qualification and equipment at the end of this period. In this process, foreign language teacher candidates are carrying a lot of anxiety; the most important one is professional concern. The purpose of this study is to determine anxiety levels of teacher candidates related to the areas of Professional concern. For this purpose, we have tried to answer this questions: 1) Which areas are teacher candidates concerned most?, 2) Do the Professional concerns of teacher candidates differentiate according to their gender?, 3) do the Professional concerns of teacher candidates differentiate according to the departments they are in?, 4) Do the Professional concerns of teacher candidates differentiate according to their age? The participants of the research is the students of foreign language teaching department in university of Ondokuz Mayıs and the sampling includes the fourth grade students of three departments: English language teaching, French language teaching and German language teaching departments. The data was collected through the ‘‘personal information form’’ developed by the researcher and the ‘‘anxiety inventory of teacher candidates’’. The data was analyzed with SPSS 20 and the results of data are discussed in the conclusion.