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‘Vicarious’ Interaction in Efl Online Discussions: A Classroom Research
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Onchevska Ager, Elena
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In this talk, I will summarise my main learning moments from a classroom research into the quality of my undergraduate students’ (n=50) participation in online platform discussions. I set up a Google Group as a non-compulsory ecomponent to my EFL course. This platform was envisaged as an opportunity for my students to alternatively contribute to the course by starting threads on topics of their interest or by commenting on existing threads. What caught my attention after observing their e-exchanges for a full academic year (2011/12) was that some students--albeit active in class--mostly stayed away from online activity. Others mysteriously disappeared from this online forum half way through the course. I was curious to explore the reasons for this, at times, strange (e-) behaviour among my students. I engaged in both first- and second-order research (Marton in Freeman, 1998), as I was keen on investigating both the quality of my students’ exchanges and their perceptions of, and speculations about, their own behaviours. This classroom research shed local light on a global phenomenon: ‘vicarious interaction’, i.e. observing the interaction between other participants without taking active part in it (Sutton, 2000). Some of my students’ feedback supported Sutton’s claim that “direct interaction is not necessary for all students” (p. 3) and that some might learn best via long periods of observation before actually joining the group at a visible level (if they join the group at all). Sutton strongly argues that participants should be given control over how they interact with other participants, to what extent and whether they interact at all.
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2013
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"Paralyzed in Winesburg, Ohio, or Grotesques in Dublin" Defining the Structure of Epicleti
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OZTURK, M.Kubra
MILAK, Eldin
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In a letter to Constantine Curran, in July 1904, James Joyce wrote: „I am writing a series of epicleti – ten – for a paper ... I call the series Dubliners.“ The term epicleti has been interpreted as a misspelled form of “epiclesis”, the process of transubstantiation as defined by the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. This went hand in hand with Joyce’s interpretation of the role of an artist as „a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life”. Wolfhard Steppe convincingly argued that epicleti was a misreading of Joyce’s handwriting and that in fact the word written is epiclets, but the notion of epiclesis still remains a valuable way of interpreting the works of James Joyce, and McDermott, in a study of Joyce and Raymond Carver, has argued that epicleti itself can be considered a genre of short story. Taking this perspective, the main focus of the paper is to define the very structure of epicleti by systematically examining each of the genre’s key features, including the notion of transubstantiation and epiphany, as well as setting and characters traits. To have a variation of samples, we will use a frequently pointed out similarity between Dubliners (1914) and Winesburg, Ohio (1919) written by Sherwood Anderson. A number of scholars, including Zlotnick and Curry, examined this relation, focusing mainly on the comparison of the works and/or disbanding the possibility of imitation, respectively. Studies such as these offer a useful framework, but do not go in depth with the notion of an epicleti, and what it means for a story to be regarded as one. Using the comparison we aim to isolate the main elements of the structure, examining at the same time the place of a single structure within the frame of the whole collection, defining a genre of short story writing which can be usefully called epicleti.
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2013
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“AKIL İLEAHMAK” KONSEPTLERİNİN KAZAK ATASÖZLERİNDE LİNGUAKÜLTÜREL YANSIMASI
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İssayeva, Gulsinay
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Thе studies of the early XXI century is characterized by the increasing attention to linguistic concepts inevitably raising the issues of mental human abilities. Obviously, there is not such sphere of human activity, wherever thet characteristic of cleverness or stupidity of a person isn’t met. Being a complex interweaving of intentional, cognitive and moral aspects, cleverness and stupidity accompany communication and are implemented in it. Quite understandable is the interest of researchers to the age-old problems of intelligence and stupidity. In the framework of cognitive linguistics, many changes in the semantic space of language are clear, they are derived from innovations in conceptual sphere, from the changes of human conceptions of the world. People often think by associations, focusing on the life experience the circumstances important for the sustenance, as well as focusing on sensory experience, on mythological ideas, and many other things not fitting logical syllogisms.Anthropological orientation of modern linguistics leading to the research, implemented at its junction with other disciplines determines the interdisciplinary status of the category of the concept used in two new paradigms: cognitive linguistics, and linguocultural studies, as well as structural and semantic direction. In addition, as a result of the review of the existing in domestic linguistics methods and techniques to identify and the describe the concepts, we conclude that cognitive scienc is stile a new direction and only develops the methodology of the study.This paper deals with the concept of objectification of cleverness and stupidity concepts in the Kazakh language world image and their paremiological analysis. The theme of the work is at the crossroads of the major subject areas of modern linguistics: cognitive linguistics, linguocultural studies, and linguoconceptology, and touches upon verbalized ideas of the inner world of a man as a carrier of the certain culture within the anthropocentric paradigm of humanities Keywords: Cleverness, Stupidity, Concept, Proverb
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2014
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“LEARNERS' NEEDS AS A STARTING POINT FOR DESIGNING A SYLLABUS FOR ESP: A CASE STUDY OF LAW STUDENTS AT SEEU”
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Saliu, Basri
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The study focuses on the issue of designing a syllabus for English for specific purposes courses and shares the view that according to the nature of such courses, their content should be based on a thorough investigation of the learners’ needs. The aim of the research is to launch a firm base for the subsequent production of a syllabus for an ESP course for Law at South East European University by exploring and investigating the needs of course participants or respondents to this research. The research examined needs analysis views of ESP students and teachers involved in ESP program. The study consists of two parts, theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part draws out the general structure of syllabi, determines the place of needs analysis in the process of ESP syllabus design, and clarifies the difference between objective and subjective needs analysis. It describes the conventional techniques engaged for conducting a needs analysis. The theoretical part forms a strong basis for an empirical study, the main findings of which are reported in the following part of the research. The study applies both quantitative and qualitative research instruments The survey about ESP learners’ preferences and needs and the Individual Background Questionnaire provided a good quantitative basis for needs analysis in order to help ESP course designers to design a syllabus with more relevant content. Qualitative data was provided from semi-structured, open-ended interviews to reveal learners’ views and expectations for ESP subject. Data were analyzed using descriptive analysis, cross tabulation and content analysis. The findings of this study firmly suggest that there are many perceived subjective and objective needs of ESP learners’ at law faculty which should be considered in the design process of the new syllabi for ESP. Most students and teachers seemed to believe that their needs for ESP do not entirely match the general learning outcome of ESP course at law faculty and the study suggest the general learning outcome be tailored in line with the beliefs of what students think they need in ESP for Law. Most importantly, this study suggests that the needs analyses of learners’ and teachers’ views for ESP syllabi, facilitates the process of designing a better syllabus for ESP students in Law. The idea is to conform learners’ “wants” with those perceived by teachers or courses designers in the learning outcome. Keywords: English For specific Purposes, Learners’ needs, Needs analysis, Syllabus
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2014
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“OUR NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES”: RAISING MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS THROUGH A CLIL PROJECT FOR YOUNG LEARNERS
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Griva, Eleni
Chostelidou, Dora
Semoglou, Klio
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This paper presents a CLIL project, which was designed and piloted for 18 weeks with 6th grade students of an experimental primary school, in northern Greece, aiming to interweave language and content learning. The objectives of the project were to: a) develop the students’ skills in EFL, b) develop their multicultural awareness c) enhance their knowledge in aspects of cultures of neighbouring countries and corresponding aspects of Geography. Stories were at the ‘core’ of the project, since they are considered motivating and fun, as well as an optimal way to introduce children to a diversity of cultures. The CLIL courses were designed in the form of a ‘story-based’ mini syllabus, including common traditional stories from our neighbouring countries in the Balkan and North-East Mediterranean area. Multimodal materials, such as stories, ppt, video clips, songs were used to arouse the students’ interest within a ‘task-based’ framework, which called for working together on a common group task, helping each other and interacting while being involved in “problem-solving”. The effectiveness and feasibility of the project were estimated by collecting both qualitative and quantitative data. The results indicated the positive effect of the CLIL approach on the students’ skills in the target language along with the students’ considerable familiarization with the target cultures.
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2014
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“Redefining The Role of Culture in Language Education Programs in South East Europe” - subtitle "Shall We Consider Culture as the Fifth Skill in Language Education?"
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POSHKA, Agim
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In the field of language education there are 4 basic skills that are essential in the process of teaching and learning. These are: reading, writing, listening and speaking. In many teaching methodology publications, all these skills are integrated in one particular learning context. However, in the curriculum of the many newly formed countries in the Balkan Peninsula Macedonia although the reality is multicultural there is an element that shadows almost every learning/teaching material and that is the cultural aspect. What this study aimed to investigate and reflect upon is the importance and the need to treat culture as a fifth skill in order to widen the horizon of teaching foreign languages in the majority of the multicultural states in the South East Europe. Introducing these cultural contexts in educational curriculums might be interesting and thorny at the same time. The study reflects also on a number of studies conducted by United Nations local offices and a joint project of the South East European University and the University of Columbia conducted in 2012. Besides the literature review and the research work conducted in Macedonia this paper provided a list of some well known teaching techniques and practices that occurred to be successful in the western world educational practices.
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2013
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A case Study: Consequences of the Cross-linguistic Influence in Second Language Learning
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Obralić, Nudžejma
Akbarov, Azamat
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It has been hypothesized that the cross-linguistic influence is one of the main reasons for the difficulties learners face while learning a second language or reaching academic learning outcomes. Therefore, we decided to conduct a study and find out to what extends differences and similarities, markedness, native language transfer, avoidance, first language influences, underuse and overuse are present between Bosnian and Turkish students who study at universities where the lectures are mostly conducted in English. Two main languages taken into the consideration as L1 are Bosnian and Turkish, whereas L2 is English. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the cross-linguistic influences of Turkish and Bosnian while learning English language and to point out its importance for learning a second language. The paper itself can be used as a useful resource for the future researches done on the language subject in linguistic.
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2013
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A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF SOME LAKOFF AND JOHNSON'S METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS FROM LOVE IS A JOURNEY METAPHOR AND THEIR CROATIAN EQUIVALENT
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Božić Lenard, Dragana
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Many people would argue that metaphor is a characteristic of extraordinary rather than ordinary speech. However, Lakoff and Johnson (2003: 8) strongly disagree with that claiming that our conceptual system is fundamentally metaphorical in its nature. Moreover, metaphors do not only shape our communication but the way we think or act. Occurring primarily in thought, metaphors are grounded in culture; hence serve as a valuable resource for a cross-cultural linguistic research. This paper aims at studying similarities and differences of English and Croatian perspective of love in terms of a journey. For the purpose of this research, Lakoff and Johnson’s 8 metaphorical linguistic expressions of LOVE IS A JOURNEY conceptual metaphor from Metaphors we live by (2003) were used in a survey and offered to 28 native Croatian speakers and former English language and literature students majoring in the field of translation studies being asked to provide their Croatian equivalents. After the conducted survey, the research has shown the great similarity of metaphorical linguistic expressions in English and Croatian language. However, it has shown that, in order to maintain the same effect, sometimes different tenses or voice perspectives have to be used. Furthermore, it has shown the existence of the same metaphorical expression in the respective languages, yet used within different conceptual metaphor. Moreover, the research has shown not only interliguistic but also intralinguistic differences, i.e. synonimical options Croatian language has due to a close geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic contact with Serbian language. In conclusion, it has been proved that even though two languages might share the same conceptual metaphor, the actual linguistic expressions underlying the conceptual metaphor may be coined on the basis of cultural-ideological differences, thus referring to metaphors being both cognitive as well as cultural entities. Keywords: metaphorical expressions, love, journey, cross-cultural linguistic comparison
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2014
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A CONTROVERSY IN PRESENTING NEW VOCABULARY IN AN EFL CLASS: SEMANTICALLY RELATED SETS (SR), SEMANTICALLY UNRELATED SETS (SU), THEMATICALLY RELATED SETS (TR)
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Aksoy, Fatma
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The present study was designed to investigate if there is a significant difference among SR clustering, SU clustering and TR clustering of vocabulary presented to Turkish EFL learners, and if there is, which way of presentation would be a more useful tool in a Turkish EFL classroom. A total of 46 preparatory school students, studying at Anadolu University School of Foreign Languages, participated in this study. The participants were required to provide Turkish equivalents of the 15 new words presented in semantic, thematic or totally unrelated sets that they were encouraged to learn through word cards. The data gathered from 37 of these participants were analyzed. The results of the delayed tests revealed that semantically related sets (SR) significantly differed from unrelated and thematic sets, and helped the participants learn and recall more words, while the results of the immediate tests did not yield to a statistically significant difference. Keywords: Vocabulary presentation, semantic clustering, lexical sets, thematic clustering.
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2014
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A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION IN TURKISH EDUCATION SYSTEM: PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE
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Genç, Hümeyra
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A teacher is an essential part of any education systems. Teacher training is always in the center of politics and various attempts have been made for it to become more efficient. Furthermore, great effort has been spent for improving language teacher education for more than 150 years in the Turkish Education System. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to reveal the changes which have occurred in both pre-service and in-service language teacher training between the times of Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey
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2014
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