Reflections of L1 on foreign /second language learning for immigrant students

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Reflections of nationalism and the role of language policies in national identity formation in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan Akyıldız, Selma; Tokluoğlu, Ayşe Ceylan; Department of Eurasian Studies (2019) After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the newly independent Azerbaijan has entered its nation-building process. Azerbaijani political elites aimed to re-form national identity through a set of language policies. In this context, they focused on the alphabet, and on the name of the official language which they consider as markers of their national identity. Turkism versus Azerbaijanism as the two competing ideologies have left their mark on this process. Language has been used as a political tool for pr...
Reflections on Turkish Personal Data Protection Law and Genetic Data in Focus Group Discussions Özkan, Özlem; Şahinol, Melike; Aydınoğlu, Arsev Umur; Aydın Son, Yeşim (2022-12-01) Since the 1970s and more rigorously since the 1990s, many countries have regulated data protection and privacy laws in order to ensure the safety and privacy of personal data. First, a comparison is made of different acts regarding genetic information that are in force in the EU, the USA, and China. In Turkey, changes were adopted only recently following intense debates. This study aims to explore the experts’ opinions on the regulations of the health information systems, data security, privacy, and confide...

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S. Çağatay, “Reflections of L1 on foreign /second language learning for immigrant students,” presented at the 14 th METU ELT CONVENTION, Ankara, Türkiye, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: file:///C:/Users/oktay/Desktop/akademik%20%C3%A7al%C4%B1%C5%9Fmalar/sibel%20publications%20and%20citations%20for%20do%C3%A7entlik/S%C4%B0BEL%20PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES/metu%20convention/bookofabstracts-4.pdf.