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  • Article
    Suggestions in Digital Discourse: The Case of MOOC Reviews
    (Elsevier, 2025-10-01) Ciftci, Hatime
    This 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.
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    Insights Into Academic Writing in English as Lingua Franca Contexts
    (Research Papers in Language Teaching and Learning, 2024) Bayyurt, Yasemin; Altınmakas, Derya
    In an era where English is the global lingua franca, academic writing has transformed significantly.This manuscript explores academic writing in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts, tracing thejourney of English from colonization to lingua franca status and contextualizing it within evolvingparadigms of English and language teaching worldwide. We delve into ELF research, where Englishplays a multifaceted role as a resource for multilingual communication. Our examinationencompasses ELF’s definitions, diverse users, and English as a multilingual franca. Our focus shiftsto academic writing practices within ELF contexts, scrutinizing unique challenges andopportunities arising from linguistic diversity, cultural nuances, and communication strategies.Through a review of existing studies on academic writing in ELF contexts, we offer practicalinsights for educators, researchers, and students navigating this realm. This manuscript guidesreaders through the intricate world of academic writing in the globalized domain of English as alingua franca.
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    Vocabulary in an English Medium Instruction Context : Selection and Difficulty
    (2018) Nural, Şükrü
    Vocabulary has long been an important issue in English as a foreign language learning and in academic disciplines but scant attention has been paid to vocabulary learning in English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts. In this exploratory study, vocabulary learning in the social sciences was investigated from the perspective of first-year undergraduate students in Turkey. An open-ended questionnaire was administered to 161 freshmen majoring in International Relations and Philosophy. The findings suggest that students tended to remember vocabulary for reasons pertaining to the characteristics of the lecture, the lecturers’ delivery style, to the characteristics of the students themselves and to the nature of the lexical items they were exposed to during their lectures. Some recommendations are suggested to inform lecture delivery in EMI contexts.
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    Citation - Scopus: 78
    Mobile-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, Kadir
    Mobile 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.
  • Presentation
    Flipped Learning Course Design Tool Kit
    (MEF University, 2016) Kurban, Fell Caroline
    Curriculum Design, Higher Education, Curriculum Theory, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum and Instruction, Flipped Classroom, Flipped learning.This presentation describes the theories and practice behind flipped learning course design at MEF University.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Warning Notes in a Learner’s Dictionary: a Study of the Effectiveness of Different Formats
    (International Journal of Lexicography, 2022-01-25) Çakar, Tuna; Nesi, Hilary; Nural, Şükrü
    This study used an online correction task to explore the extent to which different types of warning notes in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online were heeded when users tried to correct errors in the use of L2 target words. The task was completed by 332 participants, yielding 1,819 answers produced after clicking on links to relevant entries. Warning notes were categorised in terms of their formatting features, but there were found to be inconsistencies in the way the dictionary associated different categories with different kinds of learner error. Participants judged warning notes with more visual enhancements to be more useful, but in the correction task the position of the warning notes also seemed to affect the degree to which the warnings were successfully applied. Different types of warning notes in learners’ dictionaries have not been examined previously in any depth, and the results suggest that some adjustments to formatting and placement might make them more effective.
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    Citation - WoS: 2
    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Stancetaking in Spoken Elf Discourse in Academic Settings: Interpersonal Functions of I Don’t Know as a Face-Maintaining Strategy
    (Hacettepe University, 2021-04-08) Çiftçi, Hatime; Akbaş, Erdem
    Our study examines interpersonal functions enacted through a stance marker in spoken ELF academic discourse. We specifically focus on investigating the functions of I don’t know in an academic speech event by embracing an interpersonal pragmatics and sociolinguistics perspective to figure out how it contributes to the act of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity. We have examined 14 interactions of doctoral defense discussions from the ELFA corpus. Our detailed discourse analysis of these doctoral defense discussions has revealed five distinctive interpersonal functions of the stance marker I don’t know allowing speakers to construct their stance and adopt a face-maintaining strategy in the ongoing spoken discourse: prefacing a suggestion, seeking acceptance, hedging/mitigating, checking agreement, and expressing uncertainty. Considering the highly-context dependent and context-regenerated functions of I don’t know, our study attempts to delve into the relational and interpersonal aspect of communication, and thus contributes to research in this strand by disclosing the interpersonal functions of stancetaking as an intersubjective activity with a particular focus on ELF academic discourse.
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    Citation - WoS: 8
    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Second Language Motivational Self System of Sixth Graders in Turkey: a Correlational Study
    (Wiley, 2021-02-24) Çiftçi, Hatime; Arslan, Tugba
    Investigating the foreign and second language (L2) motivational self system (L2MSS) of Turkish sixth graders, this study reports relationships among three components (ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, and L2 learning experience) of the L2MSS and the variables of school type (public and private), gender, and intended effort. Data were collected from 170 students in two public and two private secondary schools in northwestern Turkey through a questionnaire. The results of correlation analysis indicate a strong positive correlation between ideal L2 self and L2 learning experience, and the variables of school type and gender did not make a difference. Intended effort was found to have a strong positive correlation with these L2MSS components. The results of multiple regression analysis provide further evidence for especially intended effort as a significant predictor of L2MSS, whereas the school type and gender did not contribute to the system. The major implications of the study and future research possibilities are discussed.
  • Article
    The Effect of Clil Training on Turkish Efl Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Clil
    (E.L.E. Publishing, 2020) Kassymov, Guzyal; Çiftçi, Hatime
    This study aims to investigate the effect of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) training on Turkish EFL pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs and their attitudes towards CLIL. For this purpose, a group of 28 Turkish pre-service language teachers was trained on CLIL, its theoretical background, aims, principles, strategies for planning and teaching lessons. The data collection tools included a teacher selfefficacy scale, a questionnaire of attitudes and experiences in CLIL, and semistructured interviews. The participants completed pre-tests and post-tests of teacher self-efficacy scale in order to measure the effect of training on their self-efficacy beliefs. Moreover, the participants’ attitudes towards CLIL were explored through the attitudes questionnaire and semi-structured face-to-face interviews. The findings revealed that the introductory CLIL teacher training had a statistically significant effect on selfefficacy beliefs of Turkish EFL pre-service teachers. The participants’ attitudes towards CLIL turned out to be positive as well.
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    Citation - WoS: 3
    Citation - Scopus: 5
    Why "sway" Again? Prosodic Constraints and Singability in Song (re)translation
    (Springer, 2019) Güven, Mine
    This 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.