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The article explains the benefits of Professional Learning Communities, which can be regarded as ... more The article explains the benefits of Professional Learning Communities, which can be regarded as a new approach in teachers' professional development. The context of the author is briefly given, an effective and descriptive language is used to facilitate readers' comprehension. The themes revealed are supported by the participants' comments addressing the theme. Few mechanical revisions should be made regarding in-text references: (Author, date, p. xx) and inconsistincies should be resolved concerning all the references through the text. A further suggestion to the author would be about exposing the content of the study. Clear research aims would be stated one by one together with the findings addressing the research questions. Overall, the study conducted provides a smooth introduction to the topic of PLCs, which are spread around several countries, supported by educational shareholders as they yield positive results for teacher learning. Therefore, the study acts as a contribution to the field.

Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Ahmet Keleşoğlu Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi, Oct 28, 2023

African Educational Research Journal, Aug 16, 2023

International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, Sep 26, 2023

This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. According to open ac... more This article may be used for research, teaching, and private study purposes. According to open access policy of our journal, all readers are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, link and search our article with no charge.

The Socratic method in developing spoken English discussion discourse markers: A case study, 2024

Socratic pedagogy is a systematized method that encourages learners to question themselves and ea... more Socratic pedagogy is a systematized method that encourages learners to question themselves and each other-without being judgmental. It aims at boosting empathy and developing an ability to reach informed conclusions. It supports the acquisition of social skills and fosters collaboration while helping them to think critically, deepen their understanding, and find reality in equilibrium. In reaching for insights, students acquire vital skills, knowledge, and practices. Socratic learning depends on how participants can use systematic dialogue. This study monitored the effects of students' use of specific discourse markers (DMs) over a series of speaking tasks undertaken in Socratic seminars. Each task was devised to support the learning objectives of a standardized English language course given to pre-service English teachers in Turkey. Recordings were used to provide feedback to ten participants and then analyzed for appropriate use of spoken DMs. The findings of the study revealed solid evidence of accurate and contextually appropriate DM usage as the number of appropriate DM use increased significantly in the seminars conducted at the end of the intervention period.

Mapping Teacher-Produced Tests to a Usefulness Model, 2024

Promoting Continuous Professional Development of English Teachers Through Action Research, 2022

The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors' a... more The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors' attitude toward professional development, self-efficacy beliefs, and reflective thinking. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory constituted the base and the professional development program was designed accordingly. The participants of the study were nine English Language instructors working at three different universities. Throughout the 16-week program, it was aimed to equip the participants with action research skills to conduct their own study in their own context according to their needs and/or interests. All the participants completed the Plan, Act, Observe, and Reflect stages of the Action Research Cycle.

Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2004

Dil ogretiminin iletisim odakli olmasiyla beraber ogrencilerin sinif ici etkinliklere katilimi ik... more Dil ogretiminin iletisim odakli olmasiyla beraber ogrencilerin sinif ici etkinliklere katilimi ikili calismalarla da yapilmaktadir. Ikili calismalar, yapilan etkinliklere esit oranda katilimini sagladigi ve bireysel calisma ve grup calismasiyla kiyaslandiginda neredeyse hic zaman kaybi olmadigindan en cok tercih edilen etkilesim turlerinden biridir. Ogrenciye ogretmen rehberligi olmadan bagimsiz calismayi ve etkilesim kurmayi saglar ve bu yuzden hazirlamasi kolay ve cabuk olmasinin yaninda ogrenci ozerkligini arttirir. Ikili calismalari sinif ortaminda daha ayrintili gormek amaciyla bu calisma ogrenci-ogrenci etkilesimi desenlerini belirleyerek ortaya cikan veriyi incelemistir. Calisma, ikili arasindaki farkli etkilesim desenlerinin ogrenci ciktilarina etki edip etmedigini gostermektedir. Calisma evrenini bir devlet universitesinde Ingiliz Dili Egitimi bolumunde okuyan 20 ogrenci olusturmaktadir. Calismanin bulgularina bakildiginda, yuksek performansli ogrencilerin verilerinin basar...

Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi SBE Dergisi

Promoting learners' higher-order thinking, which is also called critical thinking. requires u... more Promoting learners' higher-order thinking, which is also called critical thinking. requires using instructional strategies beyond merely recalling information but analyzing, evaluating, and creating information, as suggested in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (2001). As an indispensable vehicle for instructional practice and assessment, questioning is both an end to be achieved and a valuable means to attaining higher-order thinking levels. Bearing in mind that a teacher who can incorporate the so-called skills may transfer those to future language practitioners, teacher educators are on the lookout for designing courses that foster critical thinking. In this study, one of the core courses entitled 'Literature in ELT' was chosen to explore the questioning levels of pre-service ELT learners (henceforth PTEs) at a university to uncover their knowledge of higher-order thinking levels using Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy as a framework. Randomly selected sho...

International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022

The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors’ a... more The current study adopts a mixed-method research design to foster English Language instructors’ attitude toward professional development, self-efficacy beliefs, and reflective thinking. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory constituted the base and the professional development program was designed accordingly. The participants of the study were nine English Language instructors working at three different universities. Throughout the 16-week program, it was aimed to equip the participants with action research skills to conduct their own study in their own context according to their needs and/or interests. All the participants completed the Plan, Act, Observe, and Reflect stages of the Action Research Cycle.

This experimental study aimed to investigate the effect of Multiple Intelligence Theory on EFL le... more This experimental study aimed to investigate the effect of Multiple Intelligence Theory on EFL learners’ writing performance. The issue of stimulating learners to become better writers was addressed through using a selection of activities prepared to trigger the multiple intelligences defined by the founder of Multiple Intelligence theory, Howard Gardner. In the study, both experimental and control groups analyzed the same materials. The course of treatment for the experimental group was outlined through inclusion of multiple intelligences activities during ‘while-stage’ of writing. In the control group, on the other hand, there was not any intervention in the planned flow. The results of the study yielded that the learners whose multiple intelligences were activated during implementation displayed better performance in writing. The findings are discussed in line with the current status and several implications are provided for utilizing the multiple intelligences in ELT.

International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019

Although critical thinking has been on the agenda for the past few decades, there is a serious ga... more Although critical thinking has been on the agenda for the past few decades, there is a serious gap in the field of foreign language teaching especially for quantitative research carried out regarding the teaching of this process as a skill. When the case is the teaching of critical thinking in EFL courses more specifically, teaching critical reading skills shares the same problem as one of its sub-skills. Yet, it is of utmost necessity to proliferate this kind of research to reach beyond epistemological deductions to delineate the borders of such a significant skill. Thus, the current study is designed as quantitative research that aims to contribute to foreign language teaching literature utilizing the procedures of both descriptive and inferential statistics. In this sense, a specifically developed critical reading scale was chosen and distributed to the third-year EFL students of a state university in Turkey to obtain the required clear data to detect any probable connection betw...

Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016

The role of affective factors in the educational process had been disregarded until a considerabl... more The role of affective factors in the educational process had been disregarded until a considerable amount of recent research revealed results concerning the influence of emotions on teacher and student performance. This study aimed to investigate the level of self-efficacy and its relation with anxiety among university students within an EFL context at the Department of English Language Teaching, at a state university. Demographic variables of the students;namely, age and parents’ educational background were included in the study to analyze their relation to their levels of self-efficacy and anxiety. The study was conducted in the fall semester of the academic year of 2014-2015. The participants are 150 first year students of English Language Department. The data were obtained through the English as a Foreign Language Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (EFL-SEQ) and Trait Anxiety Scale. The analysis of the questionnaires showed that there was a significant relationship between students’ ...

Toplumlarin surdurulebilirligi, egitim ogretimin ana ogesi ogretmenlerin yetistirilmesine verilen... more Toplumlarin surdurulebilirligi, egitim ogretimin ana ogesi ogretmenlerin yetistirilmesine verilen onemle dogru orantilidir. Turkiye’ de 2012 yilinda yururluge konulan 4+4+4 zorunlu egitim her alanda oldugu gibi ogretmen yetistirme programlarinda da bir takim degisiklikleri beraberinde getirmistir. Dikey yaklasim modelini temel alan bu karsilastirmali calismanin amaci, ogretmen egitimi konusunda basarili ulkeler arasinda ilk siralarda yer alan Finlandiya ve Almanya’nin ogretmen yetistirme programlarini inceleyerek Turkiye’de var olan ogretmen yetistirme programlarinin yeni egitim sistemiyle uyumlulugunun saglanmasi yolunda kaynak olusturmaktir. Uzerinde calisilan uc ulkenin ogretmen yetistirme programlari, ogretmen yeterliliklerinin 4+4+4 egitim sistemine uygunlugu, dokuman analizi yontemi kullanilarak incelenmistir. Analiz sonuclarina dayanarak, Turkiye'de ogretmen yetistirme programlari uzerine, diger ulkelerde oldugu gibi ogretmenler arasi farkliliklarin ortadan kaldirilmasi v...

International Journal of Language Academy, 2021

Critical thinking has been considered as one of the main goals of education at any level. The que... more Critical thinking has been considered as one of the main goals of education at any level. The question of 'in what ways does critical thinking develop best?' still needs further exploration. Cognitive science may provide assistance in comprehending the elusive nature of critical thinking, which may lend itself to explanations by receiving theoretical background and studying skills from a wide array of perspectives. Regarding the teaching of critical thinking skills to pre-service language teachers in an EFL context, it is apparent that it requires meticulous attention from the onset of the design of the language course. Aiming to develop a critical reading and writing course which was newly added to the English Language Teaching curriculum by the Higher Education Council and putting the teaching of critical thinking skills into the core, the current study aims to explore the critical thinking and reading levels of the students at the beginning of the course and display whether any difference took place during the course of time in the academic semester specified. The inclusion of the new course entitled 'Critical Reading and Writing', required the development of the course content and a selection of materials were made according to the general framework provided by the Higher Education Council. The current study utilized descriptive and inferential means. It aimed to determine and compare the students' critical thinking and critical reading levels before and after the study. Findings indicate that students' critical thinking levels developed at the end of the study. However, it is found that female students' critical thinking scores contributed more than male students' scores. When gender is not considered as a factor, the whole group of participants improved their critical thinking skills during the study; however they did not perform the same improvement on their reading scores.