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The impact of social media as an instructional tool in Japanese culture teaching
(Springer, 2024) Karapolat, Tuğçe; Özsen, Tolga; Çetinkaya, Levent
This study aims to investigate how social media tools, in other words social network services (SNS), affects the success of Japanese language learners in learning Japanese culture in undergraduate programs. For this research, a mixed method approach was used with a quantitative, quasi-experimental research design including a pre-test-post-test control group experimental model for quantitative data and an open-ended follow-up questionnaire for qualitative data. The topic of Shintō was selected for the Japanese culture lesson to be taught to a control group (indoor and face to face) and three experimental groups with different SNS tools (Zoom, YouTube and Instagram). An achievement test was used to measure success, with 30 questions in a pilot test reduced to 27 after item analysis. Two-factor ANOVA was used for the analysis. After measurement four groups’ value was found insignificant, a Sample Pair Test was implemented for each groups’ pre-test-post-test results. The results revealed that all groups showed a statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores. The traditional Group and the YouTube Group had the highest mean achievement score,. This suggests that the social media teaching environment is as effective for the learning process as the indoor and face to face environment and learning tools. Furthermore, the qualitative data collected in this study revealed both positive and limited aspects of SNS tools. Participants highlighted the inadequacies of using SNS as the main learning environment. In the light of these data, this paper concludes that traditional classroom training is still useful in teaching Japanese culture, and SNS can be used as a supportive instrument.
Extramural English in Scandinavia and Asia: Scale Development, Learner Engagement, and Perceived Speaking Ability
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023) Sundqvist, Pia; Uztosun, M. Sercan
This article comprises two international studies. Study 1 aimed to develop a scale to measure the frequency of learners' voluntary, informal, out-of-school engagement with English, so-called Extramural English (EE) activities. It involved three stages – pilot study, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis – followed by measuring the test–retest reliability and known-groups validity of the scale. L2 English learners (N = 907; mean age: 17) from Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) and Turkey participated. The analyses led to a 32-item EE Scale that loaded onto eight factors: EE Digital Creativity, Gaming, Internalized, Music, Niche Activities, Reading and Listening, Social Interaction, and Viewing. Study 2, in which the scale was implemented, aimed to explore the frequency of EE activities and examined whether EE predicts learners' perceived speaking ability in different settings. Learners from Scandinavia (N = 197) and Asia (N = 125; China and Turkey) participated. Data analyses showed that both samples engaged most frequently in EE Music, Viewing and Reading and Listening. Ordinal regression analysis revealed that EE predicts perceived speaking ability in both contexts, but differently so. Thus, EE seems to play different roles for learning English in the different settings. Implications are discussed regarding the context-specific nature of EE.
Emergency remote teaching adaptation of the anonymous multi-mediated writing model
(Elsevier Ltd, 2023) Razı, Salim
Covid-19 related transfer of instruction to digital platforms has heightened the complications involved in teaching writing, including assessment problems regarding the increased risk of academic misconduct incidents. This study aimed at scrutinizing how the revised anonymous multi–mediated writing model fits emergency remote teaching (ERT), ensuring the promotion of academic integrity. The revised model was implemented throughout a two–semester freshmen “Writing Skills” course via a mixed methods triangulation research design in the ELT department of a university in Türkiye. Quantitative data came from writing assignments and peer feedback analyses, whereas qualitative data were retrieved through reflection papers and interviews. Students' ERT scores were compared to pre-Covid face-to-face (F2F) learning scores, revealing no significant differences; confirming that students’ performances were similar in F2F or ERT without any increase in academic misconduct in ERT. The AMMW model worked well in ERT by enabling scaffolding through asymmetrical and symmetrical asynchronous online feedback, with the integration of a rubric as the learning tool. Qualitative findings revealed the limitations of online teaching, especially regarding the importance of teacher–student(s) interaction. As an anthology of L2 writing practice amid the Covid-19 outbreak, this study may help other academics to cope with cases resembling those presented here.
Preservice English Teachers' Preparedness to Teach: Stakeholders' Perceptions in Teaching Practicum
(SAGE Publications Inc., 2023) Çelik, Handan; Zehir Topkaya, Ece
Preservice English language teachers (PSTs) realize and shape their perceptions regarding preparedness to teach during their education. However, being prepared to teach is complex and multifaceted and requires individual factors and interaction with context and other people. Therefore, understanding it from stakeholders’ lens is needed. Within a descriptive and exploratory design, one-on-one, semistructured interviews were conducted with 8 faculty advisors (FAs) and 11 cooperating teachers (CTs) supervising PSTs in primary, secondary, and high schools in a northwestern city in Türkiye. The data collected in teaching practicum stage of field experience was coded and categorized via constant comparison method of analysis. The FAs, except for few issues, regarded the PSTs as unprepared to teach, while the CTs did as prepared to teach. The emergence of a perception gap could show lack of common understanding and mismatch between the stakeholders’ perceptions regarding their standards of and approaches toward high-quality teacher preparation.
Task-related collaborative behaviours in task-based oral peer interactions
(Routledge, 2023) Aksoy-Pekacar, Kadriye
Collaboration in peer interaction has been investigated extensively by analysing language-related episodes (LREs). These have been classified variously depending on the nature of the discourse. Most studies of collaboration in peer interaction have thus tended to adopt a predetermined framework for analysis. Meanwhile, task type as a mediating factor has been widely examined by identifying and quantifying LREs. This study, drawing on sociocultural theory, explores this area by taking an ‘emic’ approach, focusing on a bottom-up analysis of collaborative behaviours in task-based EFL peer interactions. The participants were 15 adult learners of a state university in Turkey. Their EFL proficiency level was judged to be B1+ (intermediate) and their ages ranged between 18 and 20. They were randomly assigned to 3 peer groups and completed 8 different speaking tasks orally, involving 4 convergent and 4 divergent tasks.The qualitative analysis of this data identifies 5 categories of task-related collaborative behaviours; namely, (1) pooling knowledge/ideas, (2) encouragement for participation, (3) task policing, (4) simplification of the task and (5) language policing, in both types of tasks. The results are discussed in relation to social interdependence theory and learner autonomy in self-directed learning, and possible explanations for observing such collaboration are also provided.
Facilitators and barriers to creating a culture of academic integrity at secondary schools: an exploratory case study
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2023) Çelik, Özgür; Razı, Salim
Academic integrity is a vital pedagogical responsibility that educational institutions should explicitly address. One of the best ways to uphold academic integrity is to create a culture of academic integrity throughout the school. This is especially imperative at high schools where students develop their moral identity because students who act dishonestly at high school will likely behave accordingly in post-secondary education and ultimately be dishonest in familial and professional settings. Creating a culture of academic integrity is a challenging, long and multifaceted journey. In this respect, this exploratory case study set out to create a culture of academic integrity at a high school in Türkiye and explore what facilitates and impedes the process. We followed Stephens’ (2016) Multilevel Intervention Model and implemented a School-Wide Education program to guide us through the process. We conducted various activities throughout one academic year, from seminars to competitions. At the end of the term, we conducted individual and focus group interviews with the members of the school community and analyzed the interview data to identify facilitators and barriers of the process. The analysis yielded five facilitators (1) creating buy-in, (2) administrative embracement and support, (3) activities that promote student involvement, (4) external expert and school collaboration as praxis, and (5) policy as the blueprint and five barriers (1) deficiencies in responding academic misconduct, (2) prioritization of academic success over academic integrity, (3) teacher resistance against change, (4) exam-based assessment design, and (5) timing of the activities. Each theme was discussed in detail, and recommendations were made for high schools which set out on a journey of creating academic integrity culture.
Testing of support tools to detect plagiarism in academic Japanese texts
(Springer, 2023) Özşen, Tolga; Saka, İrem; Çelik, Özgür; Razı, Salim; Cente Akkan, Senem; Dlabolova, Dita Henek
Plagiarism has been among the top forms of academic misconduct. Detective, reactive and proactive measures are taken to mitigate plagiarism in scholarly works. Text-matching tools play a significant role in the detection of plagiarism. Many studies have tested the performance of text-matching tools in detecting plagiarism from various perspectives. However, no study addressed the performance of such tools in ideographic languages, particularly Japanese. Considering the sharp increase in the number of academic Japanese text and plagiarism incidents in the Japanese context, it is essential to explore to what extent text-matching tools catch similarities in Japanese texts and respond to the needs of Japanese users. Within this scope, this study set out to explore the coverage and usability performance of text-matching tools in the Japanese language. We tested the coverage performance of 10 text-matching tools with five types of intentionally plagiarized documents. Also, we tested the usability performance via a feature checklist. The testing results suggested that the tools generally give a relatively higher performance on the usability side rather than the coverage aspect. Most tools have minimal coverage performance in the Japanese language. In the end, we provided takeaways for vendors, policymakers and educators.
Foreign language speaking competence and self-regulated speaking motivation
(Wiley, 2021) Uztosun, Mehmet Sercan
This study investigates the extent to which variables related to self-regulated speaking motivation contributes to the prediction of foreign language speaking competence and explores whether there is a relationship between these two constructs. The data were collected from 84 Turkish university students using self-regulated motivation for improving speaking English as a foreign language scale that comprised four subscales: task value activation, regulation of learning environment, regulation of classroom environment, and regulation of affect. Multiple regression analyses revealed that self-regulated speaking motivation predicts 34% of EFL (English as a foreign language) speaking competence, with a unique contribution of regulation of affect. Pearson correlation coefficient revealed a significant positive correlation between foreign language speaking competence and self-regulated speaking motivation. These findings suggest that self-regulated speaking motivation may be one of the predictors of improved speaking competence. Implications of self-regulated speaking motivation for the development of speaking competence are included.
Collaborative Action Pursuits within EFL Task-Based Peer Interactions
(Anı Publishing, 2021) Aksoy-Pekacar, Kadriye; Erten, İsmail Hakkı
This study aimed to unveil collaborative actions in EFL task-based peer interactions. Collaboration in peer interaction has been mainly investigated by analysing language-related episodes (LREs). Assuming that an etic coding would limit the understanding of collaborative actions, a qualitative analysis of learner interactions, particularly sociocultural discourse analysis, was adopted for this study. The data include 11 hours of peer interactions collected from a speaking club designed as an extracurricular activity. The participants were 15 adult learners enrolled at a language school of a Turkish state university and they were informed to have B1+ proficiency level. The learners were grouped into three groups and assigned to complete two language tasks: divergent and convergent tasks in L2. The interactions were recorded, and by employing the constant comparative method, all the collaborative actions were identified in the data. Two broad categories of collaborative actions emerged; language related and task-related, each of which has different subcategories. In this paper, the language-related collaborative actions, which are eight in total, are defined and exemplified with extracts from the data. The results present implications for the inclusion of peer interaction activities, especially in EFL contexts where learners have limited opportunities in participating in L2 interaction.
Foreign Language Learning Effort and Use of Digital Media among Digital Natives: A Case Study from an Urban Secondary School
(Children Research Center, 2021) Genç, Gülten; Köksal, Dinçay
This study aims to investigate the impact of new media and some demographic factors such as gender, affinity with English, self-reported academic success, and reading habits on foreign language learning efforts of 21st-century language learners born into a digital world. The participants were 100 students attending a government secondary school in Artvin, which is located in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. A case study methodology was employed in the research to investigate the characteristics of the specific subjects extensively. Two questionnaires and a demographic information form were used to collect data and were analyzed with descriptive and inferential analyses. The frequency distribution was presented in tables, and the binary logistic regression model was conducted to assess and identify the influence of new media on digital natives’ foreign language learning efforts. Research findings indicated that more than half of the digital natives possess a higher level of foreign language learning effort. Secondly, the variables such as affinity towards learning English, self-reported academic success, and using media hardware and social media had a significant effect on digital natives’ foreign language learning effort. Finally, the digital natives’ classification of effort was seen to be significantly predicted by using new media. The study strongly recommends the extensive integration and use of new media type, which the learners prefer, in the foreign language learning process of the digital natives since it directly contributes to the process of foreign language learning effort and indirectly enhances the enthusiasm and willingness of the digital natives.
Modern Japon Eğitim Sisteminin Tarihi Temelleri Üzerine Değerlendirme: Meiji’den Shôwa’ya 1868-1950 Arası Döneme Bakış
(Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 2020-06-30) Özşen, Tolga
Japonya’nın 19. yüzyılın son çeyreğinden itibaren tecrübe etmeye başladığı modernleşme ülkemiz de dâhil olmak üzere dünyadaki Japonya çalışmalarında farklı boyutlarıyla ilgi görmektedir. Türkiye’de bu sürece ilişkin ilgi gören boyutlardan bir tanesi de Japon eğitim sistemidir. Ülkemizdeki Japon eğitim sistemine ilişkin akademik birikim nicel olarak az sayıya, kapsam ve içerik olarak ise sınırlı bir çerçeveye sahiptir. Bu birikim, ağırlıklı olarak günümüz örgün eğitim sisteminin kurumsal yapısına, fiziksel altyapısına ve öğretim programlarına odaklanmaktadır. Japonya’ya özgü sosyokültürel, tarihsel, siyasal dinamikler, tarihsel gelişimi çoğunlukla değerlendirilmemiştir. Bu bağlamda, bugünün Japon eğitim sisteminin zeminini oluşturan Meiji döneminden İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasına kadar olan döneme (1868-1950) odaklanılması, söz konusu süreçte bugünkü Japon eğitim sisteminin temellerinin nasıl atıldığı, eğitim sistemine ilişkin politika ve yaklaşımlarda hangi sosyopolitik, sosyokültürel, jeopolitik dinamiklerin etkili olduğunun ortaya konulması Japon eğitim sisteminin köklerine ilişkin genel bir perspektif oluşturulmasında etkili olacaktır. Tüm bunlardan hareketle bu çalışma, 19. yüzyıl son çeyreğinden İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasındaki sürece odaklanarak, Japon eğitim sisteminin tarihsel zeminini dönemin sosyal, kültürel, siyasal ve jeopolitik dinamikleri çerçevesinde ve Japonya’nın sosyokültürel kodları üzerinden irdeleyecektir. Çalışmada, ilgili tarihsel döneme ilişkin veri kaynağı olarak özellikle Japon Eğitim-Kültür-Spor-Bilim ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı (MEXT) web sayfası üzerinde yayımlanan açık arşiv kaynaklardan ve alana ilişkin Japonca basılı kaynaklardan yararlanılmıştır. Bu çalışma ile, ülkemizdeki Japon eğitim sistemine ilişkin alan yazına tarihsel bir perspektif kazandırılması; Japon toplumsal düşün sistemi, tarihsel ve siyasal arka plan ve sosyoekonomik çerçeve bağlamında Japonya’nın o dönemine ilişkin genel okuyucuya bir çerçeve çizilmesi beklenmektedir.

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