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Article Suggestions in Digital Discourse: The Case of MOOC Reviews(Elsevier, 2025-10-01) Ciftci, HatimeThis study examines the speech act of suggestions in digital discourse through linguistic and functional approaches and explores how suggestions are performed along with cooccurring discourse-pragmatic particles, supporting moves, and aspects in their propositional content. More specifically, this paper presents findings regarding the speech act of suggestions in MOOC reviews as a recent and emerging genre of digital discourse. Embracing a discourse analytic perspective, this study indicates how suggestions are situated within the context they are used, and their multi-functionality is evidently relevant to the linguistic choices and supporting moves by MOOC learners, going beyond the utterance level meaning. Additionally, suggestion head acts involve certain aspects of online courses or their experience where learners often express their expectations or opinions for improvement. Overall, this study contributes to speech act research in digital discourse and provides insights into the use of suggestions in the discourse of MOOC reviews. (c) 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.Book Part Creating Effective Materials for Eap(Springer Nature, 2024) Altınmakas, DeryaMaterials used in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses should strike a balance between the required linguistic proficiency in receptive and productive language skills and the disciplinary-specific vocabulary, content, and text genres. While published EAP materials provide EAP teachers with a solid structure, a wide range of texts, and a syllabus to rely on, most coursebooks remain inadequate to cater to the needs of learners from different academic disciplines. Therefore, EAP teachers should consider a set of carefully determined criteria before selecting, adapting, and developing pertinent EAP materials for their students and exert effort to familiarize themselves with the disciplinary-specific text genres. This chapter informs the readers about the key principles of selecting, using, and adapting published EAP materials and ways of designing customized EAP materials for specific learning contexts. Practical principles are offered for EAP teachers preparing students, particularly for undergraduate programs. These guiding principles emphasize selecting engaging and relevant authentic texts and designing purposeful activities that integrate technology in material development. They also focus on teaching discipline-specific academic writing conventions and text genres through genre pedagogy in EAP courses, aiming to enhance students' academic literacy and critical thinking skills. © The Author(s). All rights reserved.Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Integrating Genre-Based Writing and Critical Thinking in Developing Writing Skills of Preservice Language Teachers(Multilingual Matters Ltd, 2024-12-31) Aptoula, Nur Yigitoglu; Altinmakas, Derya[No Abstract Available]Book Part Citation - Scopus: 1Teaching Literature With Elf Paradigm in Elt Classrooms(Taylor and Francis, 2023-10-18) Tülüce, Hande Serdar; Altınmakas, DeryaThis chapter shows how teachers can utilise literary texts in their language classrooms to unearth the potential of the ELF paradigm in promoting general and critical language awareness and preparing students for the complex and diversified socio-linguistic reality of the 21st century. Earlier discussions of integrating literature in EFL classrooms mainly emphasised the use of literary texts as supplementary materials to ELT coursebooks to reinforce learners’ linguistic knowledge and enhance their understanding of the target language and culture, particularly British and/or American. The current status of ELF challenges the taken-for-granted approaches to selecting and using literary texts in language classrooms, and thus the use of literature in language teaching is in need of rejuvenation. Considering the dynamics and the reality of communication in ELF contexts, language learners today need to be familiarised with the unfamiliar and different ecosystems. The chapter presents literature-based activities designed using two short stories and two novels written by multilingual authors, which can be used with secondary school and university students with B1+ levels of proficiency.Article Citation - WoS: 45Citation - Scopus: 78Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (mall) Research Trends and Patterns Through Bibliometric Analysis: Empowering Language Learners Through Ubiquitous Educational Technologies(Elsevier, 2022-11-01) Bozkurt, Aras; Karakaya, KadirMobile devices and technologies have proliferated extensively and become an integral part of lifeand learning. Mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has progressed as an emerging area ofresearch corresponding to recent advances in mobile technologies and the proliferation ofsmartphones and tablet computers. Accordingly, this study examined MALL research between2008 and 2020 through a bibliometric analysis using social network analysis (SNA) and textmining techniques. The SNA and text mining analysis suggest five broad research themes: (1) self-regulated language learning by defining one’s own learning objectives, (2) providing learneragency and motivation by empowering autonomy, (3) personalizing learning through artificialintelligence (AI)-supported mobile learning (m-learning), (4) MALL for learning in the wild, and(5) MALL to support higher education. The findings show that while MALL research has beenconsiderably operationalized around linguistic factors, nonlinguistic factors relating to learners’interactions with mobile devices or applications have been largely overlooked. It was found thatMALL scholarship has recently tended to incorporate the use of mobile devices in informallearning contexts and outside the classroom due to the flexibility and anytime anywhere func-tionality of m-learning. The study concludes with several suggestions and highlights the areas thatneed more attention in MALL research.Book Part Discourse of Reflections on Instant Joint Engagement in Online Elt Graduate Courses (chapter 17)(Multilingual Matters, 2022-12-31) Çiftçi, Hatime; Dikilitaş, KenanIn this chapter, we investigate the discourse of post-course reflections by in-service teachers on instant joint engagement in online ELT graduate courses. Our findings demonstrate that engagement for teacher reflection might be promoted in synchronous interactions during online teacher education courses. We argue that in-service teachers’ cognitive, socio-constructive, affective and interactive engagement can foster their critically reflective voice.Book Part Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 5Why "sway" Again? Prosodic Constraints and Singability in Song (re)translation(Springer, 2019) Güven, MineThis study focuses on the song ?Quien sera? (1953, lyrics by Pablo Beltran Ruiz and music by Pablo Beltran Ruiz and Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina), which has had many language versions so far (e.g. Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, etc.), including the English Sway (1954, lyrics by Norman Gimbel), which is often erroneously thought to be the original. The lyrics have also been rewritten in Turkish by Fecri Ebcioglu in 1968/1987, Yesil Giresunlu in 1977, and Athena in 2000. With particular reference to Johan Franzon's analysis of song translation, the present article analyzes the Turkish versions in an attempt to investigate the possible constraints behind the decisions taken by the various agents of the cultural import. Given that a translated version of a source song is expected to reproduce the music and/or the lyrics and/or the sung performance, the Turkish versions appear to be adaptations with rewritten lyrics, which enable a reproduction of the melody and a sung performance similar to that of the source song. The data analysis further suggests that prosodic constraints rank the highest among the layers of singability and that translators' attitude towards the literary quality of the original lyrics might influence their decision to adopt assimilating strategies or not.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 7Co-Constructed Oppositional Stance and Facework in an Office Hour Interaction(De Gruyter, 2020-07-26) Çiftçi, Hatime; Vásquez, CamillaStance plays a salient role in communicating interpersonal meaning through language use. Understanding stance as co-constructed within dialogic interaction uncovers subtleties of how interlocutors use language to express their subjectivities and thus, negotiate their interpersonal relationship. The notion of face and facework, or relational work (Locher 2004), is therefore relevant to the understanding of stance in interaction. Drawing on Du Bois’ (2007) stance triangle, our study analyzes oppositional stance in a single, extended interaction and shows how two interlocutors in an academic setting jointly construct oppositional stance, each by drawing on their own interpretations. Our analysis indicates that this co-constructed oppositional stance is enacted throughout three broader stages, which we call initiation, negotiation, and resolution. We also demonstrate that expressing oppositional stance is a complex process where interlocutors employ various discourse strategies to express pessimistic evaluation, shifting positionings, and (dis)alignment. Meanwhile, instances of oppositional stance become face-maintaining and face-challenging at different stages in which directness and indirectness are variably employed.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 11Designing Effective, Contemporary Assessment on a Flipped Educational Sciences Course(Routledge, 2018-10-05) Caroline Fell Kurban; Fell Kurban, Caroline; Kurban, Caroline FellEvidence shows flipped learning increases academic performance and student satisfaction. Yet, often practitioners flip instruction but keep traditional curricula and assessment. Assessment in higher education is often via written exams. But these provide limited feedback and do not ask students to put knowledge into practice. This does not support the tenets of flipped learning. For two years, the author flipped instruction but retained traditional curricula and assessment. However, on the author’s current course, all three aspects were redesigned to better support flipped learning. The aim of this research is to test the effectiveness of this redesign regarding student engagement and satisfaction. Thus, it is asked: How, on this course, can meaningful, continuous assessment be provided as well as effective, personalized feedback, while staying in line with the philosophy of flipped learning? Action research took place from September 2016 to June 2017. Quantitative data from a student survey, and qualitative data from a research diary and student focus group were gathered. What emerged is: a little-and-often assessment approach is effective for learning and engagement; tasks must be authentic and test demonstration of knowledge, not memory; quality, not quantity, is key for student learning; and students desire individualized feedback. © 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.