Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures

Aspects of Turkish Bilingualism Editorial Note Sağın Şimşek, Sultan Çiğdem (SAGE Publications, 2019-08-01)
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT TEACHING IN WORLD LANGUAGE EDUCATION: CRITICAL CRITERIA FOR GLOBAL TEACHERHOOD Karaman, Abdullah Cendel (Informa UK Limited, 2007-12-01) In world language teacher education, there are few opportunities that integrate preparing prospective educators for meaningful participation in intercultural dialogues and for deeper understanding of value conflicts. Student teaching abroad offers one such promising opportunity. With our conceptualization of a critical systems approach towards heightened global awareness, we present an alternative framework that can be used in studies on international student teaching (IST). Furthermore, we theorize a type ...
Language learning in conflictual contexts: a study of Turkish Cypriot adolescents learning Greek in Cyprus Tum, Danyal Oztas; Kunt, Naciye; Kunt, Mehmet (Informa UK Limited, 2016-05-03) The Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities in Cyprus have been divided for the last five decades. This study investigated whether the recent introduction of Greek language studies in Turkish Cypriot secondary schools affects students' attitudes towards the language, its speakers and culture, and motivation to study the language. Findings revealed that students studying Greek (experimental group) report having more positive attitudes towards Greek, its culture, and speakers and are more motivated to s...
Worldviews, Criticisms, and the Peer Circle: A Study of the Experiences of a Student Teacher in an Overseas School Karaman, Abdullah Cendel (Wiley, 2010-12-01) This article explores international student teaching (IST) within the narratives of a prospective language teacher from the midwestern region of the United States. With a focus on one participant, the case study highlights significant factors that relate to the IST experience in Ecuador. A corpus generated from verbal protocols collected over a 1-year period in the United States and Ecuador was studied. With the application of descending hierarchical classification, a factor analysis of the correspondences,...
Going beyond the post-observation's interactional agenda: The observers’ references to their practices and pedagogical understandings Topal, Pınar; Yiğitoğlu Aptoula, Nur (Elsevier BV, 2022-6) The recent proliferation of studies on the language of reflection unveiled post-observation conferences (POC) as an essential setting in teachers’ professional development. As the studies on these conferences have mainly focused on pre-service settings, research on in-service context where the peers are the providers of feedback remains limited. In an attempt to address this gap, this study micro-analyzes the video recordings of 14 in-service POC sessions at an English preparatory school with the theoretica...

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N. Yigitoglu, Voices, Identities, Negotiations, and Conflicts: Writing Academic English Across Cultures. 2013, p. 187.