Çiftçi, Hatime
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06.03. Department of English Language Teaching
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| English Langauge Education Publishing | 1 |
| Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics | 1 |
| Journal of Politeness Research | 1 |
| Journal of Pragmatics | 1 |
| Tesol Journal | 1 |
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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 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.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, HatimeThis 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.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.Article Suggestions in Digital Discourse: The Case of MOOC Reviews(Elsevier, 2025) 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.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Stancetaking in Spoken Elf Discourse in Academic Settings: Interpersonal Functions of I Don’t Know as a Face-Maintaining Strategy(Hacettepe University, 2021) Çiftçi, Hatime; Akbaş, ErdemOur 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.Article Citation - WoS: 6Citation - Scopus: 6Co-Constructed Oppositional Stance and Facework in an Office Hour Interaction(De Gruyter, 2020) 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.Book Part Discourse of Reflections on Instant Joint Engagement in Online Elt Graduate Courses (chapter 17)(Multilingual Matters, 2022) 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.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 5Second Language Motivational Self System of Sixth Graders in Turkey: a Correlational Study(Wiley, 2021) Çiftçi, Hatime; Arslan, TugbaInvestigating 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.
