262 DOI: 10.7596/taksad.v2i2.249 Prospective Teacher Concerns: A Comparative Study of Departments of English Language Teaching and Language and Literature M. Naci KAYAOĞLU, M. Kerem KOBUL, akire ERBAY * Abstract Language teachers in Turkey do not take a standard pre-service education as graduates of English Language Teaching (ELT), linguistics, and translation departments all end up with language teaching profession and this, in turn, results in different teaching needs and concerns. The researchers argue that these different concerns may be one of the underlying causes of chronic language education problems in Turkey, in that Turkish Ministry of National Education does not take into consideration the comparative picture of practicing teachers and composes curricula, teaching materials, and compulsory one-shot professional development activities that all reflect “one size fits all” ideology. Therefore, determining the needs and concerns of pre-service language teachers is of vital importance. The current study has arisen from Griffith’s (2012) call for more larger-scale studies on teacher concerns across different contexts via triangulation. The researchers aim at not only investigating teacher concerns but also painting a much detailed comparative picture between ELT and linguistics department prospective teachers. The researchers target convenience sampling, in the full knowledge that this group will not represent the whole population. However, this type of non- probability sampling can serve well when it is easy to gather much informative data. Building * Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Letters. Tarih Kültür ve Sanat Aratırmaları Dergisi (ISSN: 2147-0626) Journal of History Culture and Art Research Vol. 2, No. 2, June 2013 Revue des Recherches en Histoire Culture et Art Copyright © Karabuk University  وا وارث ا ا http://kutaksam.karabuk.edu.tr/index.php Özel Sayı/Special Issue (English Studies)