Papers by Çiğdem Karatepe
Adaptation of Syrian Refugees into Turkish Culture: Does language proficiency in Turkish help?
Gece Kitaplığı, 2020
Syrian refugees in Turkey and intercultural sensitivity: Stretching healthcare and education services to their limits
Gece Akademi, 2019
‘The only five star thing about this hotel is its prices’: A study on restrictive adverb ‘only’ in negative hotel reviews
Lexington Books, Lanham (MD), USA, 2021
Use of conventional indirect strategies in requests by Turkish EFL learners
Gece Akademi, 2019
International Journal of Language Academy, 2020
Slang has always been a part of the daily language. Teenagers tend to use a colourful variety of ... more Slang has always been a part of the daily language. Teenagers tend to use a colourful variety of slang words with higher frequency in comparison to that of the adults'. Teachers find it difficult to deal with the widespread use of slang in high schools. Teenagers' tendency to overuse slang is regarded as part of identity formation and their way of interacting with others. This study aimed to understand how a group of high school students (n:93), studying in a Turkish vocational-technical state school, perceived the use of slang in daily life. The data were collected by means of a questionnaire and an interview protocol. The questionnaire data were analysed using Independent Samples t-Test and frequenciesdescriptive statistics. The researchers determined the repeated themes in the interview data, and these were used as the supporting source of information to answer the research questions. The findings indicated that male and female student groups differed in their perception of slang. It was found that while male students mostly used slang to show that they belonged to a group, female students thought that it was a habit. The female students' answers showed that they also tended to think about their group when they used slang. For both groups, efforts for fitting in with the social group played an important role. Female students also reported being more affected by social media. It was found that there was a relationship between the male students' slang use habit and the educational background of their fathers. The students, whose fathers were more educated, did not use slang words as frequently as the ones whose fathers had less education. Those students, whose fathers had sent longer time in the education system tended to blame their peers. However, others whose fathers had spent less time in the education system tended to blame their family environment and social media.
Journal of Foreign Language Education and Technology, 2017
The study aimed to investigate the effects of multi-sensory language teaching on young learners’ ... more The study aimed to investigate the effects of multi-sensory language teaching on young learners’ listening skill in English by employing a quasi-experimental design. The experimental group was taught English through multi-sensory language teaching while the control group was taught through mainstream coursebook-based instruction. A four-section and 18-item listening test developed by the researcher and evaluated in terms of its reliability and validity was administered to the groups as pre-, post and delayed posttests. Although the Mann-Whitney U test result indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the groups’ pre listening achievement test scores there appeared statistically significant differences between the groups in favor of experimental group with regard to their listening comprehension both immediate after the treatment and a month after the treatment. Moreover, the qualitative data collected through the learners’ diaries, the teacher’s blogs a...
St Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2013
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative... more This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY
The trouble is y'know...': The use of y'know in the conversations of Turkish speakers of English and native speakers' of English
Pragmalinguistics Awareness in EFL Teacher Training
Language Awareness, 2001
Hedged Turkish complaints and requests in the Problem-Solution text pattern
Pragmatics and Society, 2021
This study investigates to what extent Turkish formal complaint letters followed the ‘Problem-Sol... more This study investigates to what extent Turkish formal complaint letters followed the ‘Problem-Solution Pattern’ (Hoey 1983), and on how the writers expressed their wishes when they explained their problem and asked the authorities to amend a mistake. The study is based on a corpus of 134 Turkish complaint letters. It draws upon Flowerdew’s (2008, 2012) approach to the problem-solution pattern and the role of clause relations in this text pattern. Results showed that age-old Turkish rhetorical norms led writers’ choice of lexico-grammatical patterns in reflecting politeness in order to maintain their own and the recipients’ faces. The speech acts (complaint and request) in the ‘Problem and Solution’ parts below were hedged and impersonalized. The Turkish traditional rhetorical formula that was used in the request does not explicitly ask the reader to do something; in this way, the writers attempt to protect both their own face and that of the reader.
Esra Çam & Çiğdem Karatepe ICRAL
Advances in Language and Literary Studies
Although the use of technology for pragmatics instruction has attracted significant attention fro... more Although the use of technology for pragmatics instruction has attracted significant attention from scholars, the number of studies regarding the impact of self-access materials to this end is limited. Nearpod is a useful cloud-based application to support self-paced learning. This paper aims to probe the effect of learning through Nearpod on EFL learners’ request performance. Researchers designed seven self-access courses to teach requests. The data was collected from 11 EFL learners through Online Oral Discourse Completion Tasks before and after the treatment. The post-test results revealed that the participants significantly improved their request performance after the treatment. The learners’ responses in the pre-test and the post-test were also qualitatively analyzed for an in-depth investigation of the changes in their requesting behavior. The findings revealed that the learners stopped modality generalization and started using a variety of modal verbs according to the context ...
Pragmatics and Language Teaching
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RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021
Ingiliz dili egitimi alaninda son zamanlarda edimbilimsel dil ogelerinin ogretimi daha fazla ilgi... more Ingiliz dili egitimi alaninda son zamanlarda edimbilimsel dil ogelerinin ogretimi daha fazla ilgi gormeye baslamistir. Alandaki arastirmalar, Ingilizce ders kitaplarinin edimbilimsel ogeleri sunma konusunda yetersiz kaldigini gostermistir. Ders kitaplarinin ogrenciler icin onemli bir bilgi kaynagi olmasi nedeniyle, ogretmenlerin ders kitaplarindaki edimbilim aktivitelerini zenginlestirebilmeleri onemlidir. Ancak, ogretmenlerin bunu ne olcude basarabilecegi henuz arastirilmamistir. Ilgili alanyazin incelendiginde ogretmenlerin edimbilim ogretim materyalleri hakkindaki goruslerini inceleyen bir calismaya rastlanmamistir. Bu boslugu doldurmak icin, ilk olarak amaci ricalari ogretmek olan bir ders kitabi aktivitesi alanyazin taranarak zenginlestirilmistir. Sonra bu aktivite 100 Turk Ingilizce ogretmeninin dikkatine sunulmustur. Ardindan ogretmenlerin gorusleri hakkinda bilgi, bir anket ve yari yapilandirilmis mulakat araciligi ile toplanmistir. Ayni zamanda ogretmenlerin edimbilim ogret...
Article History: Purpose: Study abroad has been exceedingly popular among students, recently. Tur... more Article History: Purpose: Study abroad has been exceedingly popular among students, recently. Turkish youth have become even more willing to study abroad and improve their English language skills. As lingua franca (ELF), English is the main Language for interaction, particularly in international education. The current study investigated the language learning perceptions of Turkish students having participated in the Erasmus Exchange Program before. Research Methods: The participants were 100 (58 females and 42 males) university students from different departments having been in the Erasmus Exchange Program in the last five years. The data were collected Received: 25 Dec. 2019 Received in revised form: 6 Mar. 2020 Accepted: 7 Mar., 2021 DOI: 10.14689/ejer.2021.93.3
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
One of the defining characteristics of pragmatic competence is the ability to use appropriate lex... more One of the defining characteristics of pragmatic competence is the ability to use appropriate lexico-grammatical and syntactic indirectness strategies (Blum-Kulka et al 1989) within a particular situation. Writing a complaint letter to an authority figure requires high pragmatic competence. However, even if learners have a good command of grammar, they fail to express and comprehend the intended illocutionary meaning. This study aims to examine request forms used by Turkish learners of English and NSs of English in complaint letters. The NS informants (N: 38) are mainly teachers teaching in the city of Bursa, Turkey and learners are all Turkish ELT teacher candidates (N:295) studying at Uluda University. Informants composed a letter where they asked the student registrar of Uluda University to correct their grade which appeared to be incorrectly entered as FAIL into the electronic records. Majority of NSs made 'conventionally indirect requests' (Blum-Kulka et al 1989) such as 'I'd be grateful if you recheck your records and amend this mistake'. Besides, quite many NSs did use the imperative form. But these are used to ask for notification about the result. On the other hand, NNSs used mainly three strategy types: Explicit Performative (I request from you to correct this mistake), Want Statement (I want you to correct control this mistake (please) and Suggestory Formula (If you can help in this matter, I would be really pleased). The results indicate that teacher candidates have difficulty in choosing the right verb form and using modal verbs to indicate indirectness appropriately.
Pragmalinguistic Awareness in EFL Teacher Training
Language Awareness, 2001
... situation. They may resort to transfer from his/her L1 (Bialystok, 1993; Lazenby Simpson, 199... more ... situation. They may resort to transfer from his/her L1 (Bialystok, 1993; Lazenby Simpson, 1997; Wierzbicka, 1985). Previous studies do not seem to give a detailed description of what is transferred (cf. Kasper & Schmidt, 1996). ...
Bu bir Ingiliz Dili ve Egitimi programinda isbirlikci ogrenci merkezli egitimin Dil Edinimi dersi... more Bu bir Ingiliz Dili ve Egitimi programinda isbirlikci ogrenci merkezli egitimin Dil Edinimi dersinde kullanilmasi sonucunda ogrencilerin bu teknige karsi gelistirdikleri tutumlari arastirmak icin yapilmistir. Veri bir on-anket bir de son-anket kullanilarak ve her iki anket uygulamasindan takiben yuz yuze gorusme yapilarak toplanmis. Sonuc olarak ogretmen adaylarinin bu derse karsi olumlu tutumlar gelistirmis olduklarini ve isbirlikci egitim faaliyetlerini ogretmen merkezli ogretime gore daha guduleyici bulduklarini gostermektedir. Ogrenciler, bu ders suresince arkadaslariyla isbirligi yaparak ogrenmenin bilgilerin daha kalici olmasina yardimci oldugunu ve bu bilgileri diger derslerde kullanabilmelerini sagladigini belirtmislerdir.
Attitudes of Parents towards Their Children's Culture Learning in an EFL Setting
Journal of Foreign Language and Technology, 2019
Language and culture are inseparable terms and in many researchers' opinions, such as those o... more Language and culture are inseparable terms and in many researchers' opinions, such as those of Byram (1988), Kramsch (1993), and Brown (2000), they should be integrated during the foreign language teaching process. Many studies have been conducted about the effects of culture teaching on language learning, or the views of both language teachers and learners about target culture teaching while learning a foreign language. However, there is very limited research examining the effects of parents on their children's foreign language learning process about target culture teaching. Based on this gap in the literature, the present paper attempts to find out what parents think about the target culture in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classes, and to identify whether there is any difference between the attitudes of parents considering their educational background, whether they know a foreign language, and whether they have been abroad before. One hundred and nine parents partic...
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