An electronic performance support system for teaching Turkish as a foreign language : a case study

An investigation into the implementation of alternative assessment in the young learner classroom Çetin, Lynn Marie Bethard; Özbek Gürbüz, Nurdan; Department of English Language Teaching (2011) The purpose of this study was to explore and develop a better understanding of the implementation of alternative assessment in the young learner classroom. This in-depth, qualitative study focuses on teachers’ practices and beliefs, as well as the student perspective and the role of alternative assessment in the instructional process. Case studies were carried out on nine different English language teachers and their use of alternative assessment strategies and tools over a six month period in their first, ...
An ınvestigation of a complementary feedback model for l2 writing: peer and teacher feedback versus teacher feedback Tokdemir Demirel, Elif; Enginarlar, Hüsnü; Department of English Language Teaching (2009) This study aimed at developing a complementary peer-teacher feedback model, in which students and teachers share the responsibility of providing feedback in a systematic way and testing its effectiveness. The effectiveness of the developed feedback model on improving students’ writing ability was tested in the context of a multiple draft writing course which followed a process approach with 57 preparatory class students at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of English Language and Literature for a p...
A corpus-based analysis of genre-specific discourse of research: the phd thesis and the research article in elt Işık Taş, Elvan Eda; Enginarlar, Hüsnü; Department of English Language Teaching (2008) Writing a research article is not an easy task for novice researchers, who begin their study as outsiders in the academic community and who must deal with both the apprenticeship in their fields and the challenge of writing in a new genre. Moreover, PhD thesis is a genre which is very frequently “recontextualized” as a research article by the novice researcher. The aim of this study was to conduct a contrastive analysis of the genre-specific features of introductions in a corpus of theses written in PhD pro...
Metapragmatics of (im)politeness in Turkish: an exploratory emic investigation Güler Işık, Hale; Ruhi, Şükriye; Department of English Language Education (2008) Adopting an eclectic analytic perspective of discourse analysis, conversation analysis and functional approaches, this study conducts an in-depth pragmatic analysis and describes the function of three pragmatic particles yani, iste and sey in casual, conversational Turkish. All three particles have multiple functions, which are described by reference to occurrences in utterances within three different domains of conversation. While utterance initial occurrences of yani are mainly connective and continuative...
A Computational analysis of Turkish using the government-binding approach Birtürk, Ayşenur; Bozşahin, Hüseyin Cem; Department of Computer Engineering (1998)

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N. E. Çağıltay, “An electronic performance support system for teaching Turkish as a foreign language : a case study,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2003.