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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.Conference Object What Do Pre-Service English Language Teachers Have To Say for Their Future?(2023) Altınmakas, DeryaThe dignified socio-cultural value attached to the teaching profession is in decline not only in Turkey, but also in many other parts of the world. Previous studies (Aksu et al., 2010; Fray & Gore, 2018; Heinz, 2015) have shown that pre-service teachers might have altruistic, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations at diverse levels when they embark on their teacher education programmes (TEP). It has also been widely studied that pre-service teachers’ initial motivations and conceptualizations of the teaching profession are subject to change over time due to the gap they observe and experience between the theory and practice, precarious employment, lack of financial resources and benefits, low salary, limited opportunities for promotion and professional development, unstable work-life balance, ideological pressures, and demanding parents and educational stakeholders. This study will present the preliminary findings of an on-going research exploring pedagogical beliefs, professional conceptualisations and motives of 20 pre service English language teachers studying their second and third years of a TEP in Istanbul, Turkey. Guided by reflective practice theory (East, 2022; Farrell, 2021), the first data set was obtained from web based logs where participants were guided with questions to reflect on to what extent the training they receive in TEP corresponds to the practice they observe in their internship schools and how this experience reformulates their pedagogical beliefs. The second data set was collected using focus-group interviews where the participants were asked to comment on their motives to choose and continue to practice the teaching profession. The results indicate that pre-service English language teachers have ambivalent beliefs and attitudes toward their future practices, mainly pertaining to the socio-political and economic turmoil in the country, accelerating inflation and challenging living conditions, prevalent notion of native-speakerism in private schools, and technological innovations gradually replacing the role of teachers.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 Pragmatics in Discourse(Pegem Akademi, 2021) Çiftçi, HatimeIn this chapter, we have briefly discussed how pragmatics and discourse inform each other as two closely intersecting concepts. This is also the underlying assumption for our chapter on pragmatics in discourse as they entail several common aspects regarding the analysis of language use in social interaction. We discussed the role of context and social factors and presented the distinction between pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics. Additionally, we have provided a broad overview of five different approaches to pragmatics in discourse as these have been predominantly embraced by recent research studies. These are namely conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, genre analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis. Finally, from a sociolinguistic perspective, we have utilized the concept of domain in speech communities and exemplified it with two discourse domains and these are classroom discourse and institutional discourse.Book Part Discourse Analysis as a Research Methodology for L2 Context(Wiley Blackwell, 2022) Çiftçi, HatimeDiscourse analysis as a qualitative research methodology promotes our understanding ofhow language is used by interlocutors in ongoing talk. Along with the increased use oftechnology and digital media in our lives, the scope of discourse analysis can be expandedfrom face-to face interactions to any instance of online communication. Thus, it is highlylikely to utilize discourse analysis as a research methodology in a wide spectrum ofsecond/foreign language (L2) teaching and learning contexts. In discourse studies, it is acommon practice to inform our analysis by using a specific methodological framework, suchas conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal analysis, corpuslinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and so on. This chapter presents how I used discourseanalysis utilizing interactional sociolinguistics to examine linguistic politeness in office hourinteractions at two foundational universities in the northwest of Turkey where English is themedium of instruction. Drawing on a reflective and narrative report of my researchexperience, this chapter provides insights into how discourse analysis can be implemented inL2 teaching and learning contexts, what researchers should consider before and during theresearch process, the potential challenges of conducting discourse analysis for similar L2contexts, and suggestions for future endeavors in this line of research.Book Part The Central Concepts: Culture, Language, Intercultural Competence and Interculturality(Eğiten Kitap, 2021) Çiftçi, HatimeThis chapter presents the basic concepts, such as culture, language and culture, intercultural competence and interculturality with a brief discussion of earlier and recent perspectives and frameworks. The chapter starts with various definitions of culture and draws on linguistic anthropology followed by dimensional and analytic frameworks of culture. Then, the relationship between culture and language is presented through linguistic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic viewpoints. Such a interwoven link between language and culture brings up the discussion of the role of intercultural communication and interculturality accompanied by a set of both earlier and recent frameworks. Then, the concept of interculturality is briefly reviewed tapping on some critical issues, such as diversity and power dynamics in intercultural communication. This is followed by implications of interculturality for language teaching and relevant practices.Book Part Book Part Citation - WoS: 1Differentiating Flipped Learning Approaches for the Diverse Needs of the Faculty of Economics, Administrative, and Social Sciences(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2016) Kurban, Caroline Fell; Şahin, Muhammed…Conference Object Pre-Service English Language Teachers’ Learning Experiences and Perceptions During Their First Practicum(AAAL 2019, 2019) Tekiner Tolu, Aylin; Nural, ŞükrüPracticum is one of the most important components of pre-service teacher education programs (Price, 1987). To better design the curriculum of the practicum and ensure the utmost growth, this study examined in depth the experiences and perceptions of the pre-service English language teachers during their first practicum. In the study setting, the undergraduate program stands out as unique and innovative because it includes practicum in four semesters beginning with two days per week in the 3rd year and three days in the 4th year. Therefore, a qualitative case study was conducted with the 15 interns in their first practicum. For participant triangulation, 15 mentor teachers and 3 university supervisors participated in the study as well. The data were collected via online open-ended pre and post-questionnaires, students’ weekly journals and reflective reports, and focus-group interview. The data were analyzed through content analysis and constant comparison method by identifying key terms and creating themes and categories (Creswell, 1998). To increase trustworthiness, in addition to member checking, two researchers analyzed the data, compared their results, and a total interrater agreement was achieved (Leech & Onwuegbuzie, 2007). The findings reveal a very complex and multifaceted experience for the interns leading to growth with certain aspects to be worked on for improvement. The study signifies that the interns mainly focused on generic dimensions of pedagogy rather than those related to the specifics of language teaching. Findings also unearth their perceptions about the demands of the teaching profession in general, managing stress, increase in self-efficacy, learning about doing critical classroom observation, having a sense of collegiality, and revising career plans. Based on these findings, we believe that it is necessary to bring the particulars of classroom-based language teaching to the interns’ attention by providing them with structured classroom observation checklists and guidelines for reflections.Conference Object Evaluating a Model From Two Perspectives: Teachers and University Scholars(Iated-INT Assoc Technology Education & Development, 2016) Aktekin, Nafiye ÇiğdemProductive strategies for evaluating outcomes are becoming increasingly important for the improvement of teacher education [1] and for any model that claims to offer the best practice. The University within School (UwS) model suggests that teacher education must be done through collaboration between universities and schools. According to Ozcan [2], the model combines two models of professional education: one is the traditional "apprenticeship-journeyman-master's" model, which is practice-based; the other is modern professional education, which is mostly based on theoretical knowledge and is implemented through formal schooling. Students and academicians of an education faculty of a foundation university have been practicing to this end in a workplace for two years. Teachers of the partner school have been part of this model as mentor teachers, role models, and participants. This study aims to evaluate the model from the perspectives of teachers and college faculty since the model aims to prepare the conceptual framework of teacher education through the participation of all partners. The perceptions of two faculty members and three teachers were investigated through interviews. The evaluation of the model will help to design the model more effectively.