INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, cilt.10, sa.1, ss.171-180, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
The language that people use while expressing their feelings, thoughts and wishes is one of the basic elements for speech. Speaking skill has a complex structure that includes physical, physiological and psychological elements. In addition, for a good speech, the speaker must have some skills. In this context, the aim of the research is to examine the pre-service teachers' proficiency in speaking anxiety in terms of some variables. In this direction, the aim of the research was tried to be realized by examining the relevant literature and the answers given by the pre-service teachers to the determined scales. In this study, in which the speaking anxiety of teacher candidates was examined in terms of some variables, in the quantitative dimension of the research in order to obtain the data; quantitative research method was used. The target population of the research consists of senior students studying at İnönü University Faculty of Education in the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. As a result, based on the findings, it can be said that the teacher candidates in the study did not experience any anxiety that would affect their teaching status about speaking. Various suggestions were presented in the light of the results of the study.