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2. An exploration of the linguistic, professional and intercultural experiences of 'international' academics from different disciplines at a UK university
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Kani, Zeynep Gülşah and Durrant, Philip
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378 ,internationalisation of UK higher education ,international academics ,linguistic ,professional and intercultural experiences - Abstract
The internationalisation of higher education in the past decade has brought about dramatic changes in the profiles of staff and students in UK universities. The number of international students are estimated to rise to 7 million by 2020 by the OECD (2011) at all levels of education in many parts of the world and particularly in English speaking countries (Davies, 2003; Jackson, 2010). Also, one in four academics had a non-UK nationality in 2010-11 according to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE, 2012: 4) apart from the linguistically and culturally diverse, latecomer UK-domiciled academics. In such an atmosphere, there is an increasing trend in research on international students and teachers who are speakers of English as an additional language (EAL) especially in TESOL. Nevertheless, there are few studies into the experiences of the academic staff as speakers of EAL who are working at a UK university. Therefore, this research examined the linguistic, professional and intercultural experiences of ‘international’ academics from different disciplines in the internationalising contexts of higher education in the UK. Fifteen academics who are speakers of EAL at an intercultural UK university were interviewed with a semi-structured format. The participants shared their stories and experiences of the phenomenon “being an ‘international’ academic/lecturer”, which contributed to the development of a deeper understanding of the experiences and challenges they underwent in terms of language, academia and interculturality. The participants shared their language-related experiences and attitudes towards the “(non)native-like” language use as bi-/multi-lingual speakers, the challenges of teaching and researching at an internationalising university and their accounts of experience of interculturality and approaches to (non-)essentialist cultural descriptions as “international” academics.
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- 2015
3. Examining EFL Pre-service Teachers' Use of Classroom Discourse Moves and Factors Affecting Their Choices.
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah and TÜRKMEN, Gökçe Nur
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ENGLISH as a foreign language ,CLASSROOMS ,STUDENT teachers ,ENGLISH language ,METHODOLOGY - Abstract
Many factors affect a teacher's classroom behavior. What these effects depend on, where they come from, and how they affect the teacher are closely related to the teacher's personal characteristics. This mixed-method descriptive case study aimed to examine the classroom behaviors of twelve Turkish EFL pre-service teachers at a Western state university and to understand their thoughts about what the classroom discourse moves that they use depend on. With this aim, the classroom behaviors of EFL preservice teachers were examined through observation and interviews, complementary to each other. The frequencies of selected classroom discourse moves, which are "eliciting, extending, facilitating, clarifying, supporting, and omitting" were observed, and the most frequently used moves were revealed. The pre-service teachers' opinions evident in their extracts from interviews pointed out the effect of personal and social factors on their behaviors in the classroom and their views on the classroom discourse moves. As a result of the research study, it was found that the pre-service teachers frequently used the facilitating and clarifying discourse moves, and the factor that most affected them was their prior teachers and university education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. English Language Teacher Educators’ ‘Real World’ Approaches to Professional Learning
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Kani, Zeynep Gülşah
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- 2014
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5. Reflections on Varieties of English in an Audiovisual Media-Based Online Teacher Training Course
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah
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İngilizce çeşitleri,Görsel-işitsel medya,İnternet tabanlı öğretim,Günlükler,İngilizce öğretmeni adayları ,Varieties of English,Audiovisual media,Web-based instruction,Journals,EFL pre-service teachers ,Social ,Sosyal - Abstract
Bu makale, çevrimiçi bir öğretmen eğitimi kursunda dinleme günlükleri aracılığıyla İngilizcenin çeşitlerine ilişkin İngilizce öğretmen adaylarının farkındalığını artırmayı amaçlayan sınıf temelli bir araştırma çalışmasına ilişkindir. Ders dönemi boyunca öğretmen adayları tarafından (iki) haftada bir yazılan 143 günlük hem pedagojik bir araç hem de bir araştırma aracı olarak hizmet vermiştir. Seçtikleri internet tabanlı görsel-işitsel materyaller üzerine düşünceleri, adayların bu materyaller aracılığıyla çeşitli İngilizce kullanımlarına maruz kalmaları nedeniyle günlüklerin araştırma amacını gerçekleştirmede etkili olduğunu ortaya koydu. Kökten-anadilcilik, standart İngilizce ve Dünya İngilizceleri üzerine makaleler okuma, yansıtıcı düşünme ödevleri, sunumlar ve sınıf tartışmalarından oluşan ders ilerledikçe, internet tabanlı görsel-işitsel materyallerin de İngilizce kullanım yelpazesini genişlettiler. İngiltere, ABD, Kanada gibi İç Çember olarak adlandırılan ülkelere özgü, İngilizcenin daha Merkez tabanlı kullanımlarıyla başladılar ve ilerleyen haftalarda Genişleyen ve Dış Çember olarak adlandırılan ülkelerde İngilizcenin ortaya çıkan kullanımlarına artan bir ilgi geliştirdiler. Dinleme günlüklerindeki düşüncelerinden çıkardıkları sonuçlara dayanarak, dikkat ettikleri noktaları tartışacağım ve gelecekteki araştırmalar için pratik çıkarımlara ve önerilere değineceğim., This paper reports on a classroom-based research study aiming at raising EFL pre-service teachers’ awareness of varieties of English by means of listening journals in an online teacher training course. 143 journals which were written (bi-)weekly by the trainees throughout the course term served both as a pedagogical tool and a research instrument. Their reflections on the web-based audiovisual materials of their choice revealed that the journals have been influential in realising the research aim in that the trainees were exposed to various English uses through these materials. As the course which comprised reading articles on native speakerism, standard English versus World Englishes, reflection tasks, presentations and classroom discussions progressed, they expanded the range of English uses in their web-based audiovisual materials. They started with more Centre-based uses of English specific to Inner-Circle-called countries such as the UK, the USA, Canada and developed a growing interest in the emerging uses of English in the Expanding and Outer Circle-called countries in the upcoming weeks. Drawing on the conclusions from their reflections in the listening journals, I will discuss the points which they have become mindful of and touch on practical implications and suggestions for future research.
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- 2021
6. A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF (NON-) ESSENTIALIST CULTURAL DISCOURSES EMBEDDED IN THE TEXTBOOK SERIES 'ENGLISH FILE'
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah and ARSLAN, Gizem
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Social ,EFL Textbook Analysis,Cultural Discourses,(Non) Essentialism,Neo-Essentialism,Intercultural Communication ,Sosyal - Abstract
In today’s various language learning contexts in which the reflection of Englishlanguage uses for intercultural communication becomes prominent, the core resourcesof the language classrooms, be they virtual or face-to-face, are still textbooks. Therefore,the stance taken while constructing the multimodal components in the textbooks wouldinfluence whether language learners will develop an understanding of the target languagecommunity in line with an international perspective or not. In this vein, our study is acritical examination of (non)-essentialist cultural discourses in cultural representationsin the visuals and the texts of English File Fourth Edition Elementary, Pre-Intermediateand Intermediate Student’s Books. Taking account of multimodality in both semiotic andsocial-historical rhetorical senses and acknowledging the pedagogic-didactic nature ofthe textbooks, we focused on different meaning-making tools like images and texts andthe interaction between them within the scope of this article. Findings showed that thetextbooks mostly perpetuate an essentialist perspective of culture, favouring “Western”,especially British, and American cultural representations, besides some texts addressingneo-essentialist perspectives. The elementary book has the highest number of essentialisttexts in which “the West” is described and emphasised constantly, while the pre-intermediate book, albeit with a few texts from a critical perspective, is mostly composedof neo-essentialist elements. Lastly, the intermediate book can be viewed as the most non-essentialist one among others, since it consists of the highest proportion of interpersonaland intercultural exchanges without a specific reference to a cultural arena that is bothpredefined and defining in the series, though half of the texts still make a reference to the“Western” countries in the intermediate book as well.
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- 2021
7. A critical inquiry into in-service EFL teachers’ intercultural self-efficacy beliefs and experiences
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah and YILMAZTÜRK, Seda
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kültür,kimlik,söylem,kültürlerarası çalışmalar,hizmet içi İngilizce öğretmenleri ,Culture,identity,discourse,intercultural studies,in-service EFL teachers ,Linguistics ,Dil Bilim - Abstract
Bu makale, İstanbul’daki İngilizce hazırlık okullarında çalışan, sosyal ve dilsel olarak farklı geçmişlere sahip üniversite İngilizce öğretmenlerinin kültürlerarası öz-yeterlik inançlarını ve deneyimlerini incelemektedir. Eleştirel yorumlayıcı bir kuramsal çerçeve altında karma yöntemli bir vaka çalışması tasarımını benimseyen çalışma, kültürlerarası öz-yeterlik inançları ve deneyimleri ölçeği aracılığıyla ve Türk, Batı ve Orta Doğu kökenli kültürlerarası tecrübeli katılımcılarla yapılan görüşmeler yoluyla toplanan hem nicel hem de nitel verileri içermektedir. Betimsel istatistiksel ve tematik çözümlemeler öğretmenlerin daha çok işyerlerinde kültürlerarası deneyimler yaşadıklarını ve zaman kısıtlaması nedeniyle uygulamada kültürlerarası dil öğretimine ilişkin endişe duymalarına rağmen sınıfta çeşitliliğe karşı olumlu tutumlar geliştirdiklerini ortaya koymuştur. Öğretmenler kültürlerarası yeterliliğe sahip olmanın bir parçası olarak görülebilecek bazı özellikleri vurguladılar: saygılı ve çeşitli insanlarla iletişim kurmaya istekli olmak, çeşitliliği kabul etmek, farklı ve bilinmeyeni tartışmak ve mizah sergilemek. Kültürlerarası deneyimlerle ilgili açıklamaları, en sık atıfta bulunulanı 'bireycilik' ve 'toplumculuk' olan çeşitli söylemlerden etkilenen karmaşık, katmanlı ve iç içe geçen bir kültür görüşünün göstergesiydi. Çalışmanın ışığında, yerel uygulamaların ve söylemlerin ulusal ya da uluslararası olanlardan daha fazla etkiye sahip olabileceği sınıflarda, anahtar oyunculardan biri olarak dil öğretmenlerinin gözünden, ‘tekmerkezci olmayan’ kültürel konulara ilişkin çıkarımlar ve yeni içgörüler sunuyoruz., This paper examines the intercultural self-efficacy beliefs and experiences of university EFL teachers from socially and linguistically diverse backgrounds working at English language preparatory schools in İstanbul. Adopting a mixed-methods case study design under a critical interpretivist theoretical framework, the study included both quantitative and qualitative data collected through an intercultural self-efficacy beliefs and experiences scale and via interviews with interculturally experienced participants from Turkish, Western and Middle Eastern backgrounds. Descriptive statistical and thematic analyses revealed that the teachers had intercultural experiences mostly in their workplaces and that they developed positive attitudes toward diversity in the classroom though they were concerned about intercultural language teaching in practice due to the time constraint. The teachers highlighted some of the features that could be regarded as a part of having intercultural competence: being respectful and willing to communicate with diverse people, accepting diversity, discussing the different and unknown, and displaying humour. Their accounts of intercultural experiences were indicative of a complex, layered and overlapping view of culture influenced by several discourses, the most frequently referred ones of which were ‘individualism’ and ‘collectivism’. In the light of the study, we offer implications and new insights into ‘non-monocentric’ cultural threads through the eyes of language teachers as one of the key actors in classrooms, where local praxes and discourses may have more impact than national or international ones.
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- 2021
8. THE LINGUISTIC EXPERIENCES OF BI/MULTI-LINGUAL ACADEMICS AT A UK UNIVERSITY
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Kani, Zeynep Gülşah
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With the internationalisation of higher education in the past decade, there have been dramatic changes in the profiles of staff and students in UK universities. These changes have brought about an increasing trend in research on “international” students and teachers who are speakers of English as an additional language (EAL) especially in TESOL. Nevertheless, there are few studies into the experiences of the academic staff as speakers of EAL who are working at a UK university. Therefore, my doctoral research examined the linguistic, professional and intercultural experiences of fifteen bi/multi-lingual academics from different disciplines in the internationalising contexts of higher education in the UK, and in this paper, I present their language-related experiences and challenges; particularly their perceptions of being an EAL speaker in the past and during their current teaching in the UK. The participants were interviewed with a semi-structured format through a phenomenological research journey which I have undergone as a first-person experience philosophically and which also enabled me to explore the participants’ experience per se from their perspectives methodologically. First, their views on English language learning (ELL) experiences, “native” and “non-native-like” use of English and the positioning of their own language use will be explored through their linguistic background. This will help understand how their attitudes and previous language experiences affect their perceptions of being an EAL speaker and interactions with people. Lastly, expressing their views on ELL experiences, I will elucidate the problems which impacted their use of language and ways of communication with other people, and their teaching among a mixed group of students from different sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds like themselves. These people included students, staff and local people, be they ‘English as a first language’ speakers or EAL speakers. Academics’ accounts revealed that their previous experiences of ELL played an important role in the linguistic, socio-cultural, psychological, intellectual and academic aspects of their lives. Their lives were affected by the view of English as a matter of gaining prestige and status. The quality of the English language education in the country of origin was another factor affecting their lives. These factors caused some to feel the fear of not being able to learn English and the attrition of the proficiency in the mother tongue. The academics’ views (except for Paul) showed that “nativeness” is not an important factor which puts them at a disadvantage while communicating; in contrast, being an EAL speaker may be quite an advantage to establish rapport and empathy with the international students they teach. Further language-related issues were associated with familiarity with colloquial language and vocabulary use, expressing emotion, humour and identity in L2, having different cultural expectations about communication and meaning-making/ being (un)able to read between lines. All in all, this paper accounts for the reasons behind the participants’ language performance and provides insights into their experiences and encounters in the early part of their transition to the life and university teaching in the UK.
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- 2018
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9. HOW PARTICIPATORY IS LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION?: TRAINEES' PERSPECTIVES.
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah
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EDUCATION of language teachers ,TRANSFORMATIVE learning ,TEACHER training courses ,STUDENT teachers ,TEACHING experience ,LEARNING - Abstract
Within the complex "coral gardens" (Breen, 2001) of human learning and teacher education, participatory and mediational tools such as social relations, concepts and cultural artifacts or problem-posing activities, deserve more time and effort as they are scarcely investigated. This exploratory study with both cognitive-interactionist and sociocultural perspectives aims at shedding light on the ELT trainees' views about the use of such tools through project work during their pre-service teacher training courses at a Turkish university under a mixed-methods research design. A thick description of the trainees' interpretations of their engagement with project work displayed that participants supported the use of such tools as a teaching strategy that values themes and contents of their interest and choice regarding learning and teaching language skills and research. They showed willingness to undergo an authentic and meaningful learning/teaching experience by expressing themselves through sustained participation in such project-based activities though they noted that there is still a need for the reconsideration of the whole curriculum in line with a more transformative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
10. A case study on the English language teacher trainees' perceptions about teacher competencies identified by Common European Framework (CEF) and European Language Portfolio (ELP)
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Kani, Zeynep Gülşah, Yavuz, Aysun, and İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı
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Teacher training ,English ,Language education ,Eğitim ve Öğretim ,European Language Development Folders ,Teacher proficiency ,Education and Training ,Candidate teachers ,Teachers ,Foreign language education ,Sufficiency - Abstract
Bu çalışmanın amacı, İngilizce Öğretmeni adaylarının Avrupa Dil Portföyü ve Avrupa Ortak Çerçeve Metni'nde tanımlanan öğretmen yeterlilikleriyle ilgili algılarına onların şu an sahip oldukları ve ulaşmak istedikleri yeterlilikleri tasvir ederek ışık tutmaktır. Bu çerçevede, adayların yeterlilik algılarının eğitim sürecindeki ?sınıf düzeyi, cinsiyet, dil seviyesi ve mezun olunan lise? gibi değişkenlere göre nasıl değiştiği de keşfedilmektedir.?The Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications? yayınında tanımlandığı gibi, öğretmenlerin sahip olmaları gereken özellikler ?öğretmenliğin üniversite eğitimi üzerine icra edilen bir meslek olması, hayat boyu öğrenmeye dayanan bir meslek olması, farklı ülkeler ve farklı eğitim kademeleri arasında hareketliliği gerektiren bir meslek olması, üniversiteler, okullar, eğitim endüstrisindeki kuruluşlar ve diğer eğitim sağlayıcılar arasında ortaklık kurulmasına dayanan bir meslek olması?ndan oluşan dört temel ilkenin altında açıklanmıştır. Üç ana yeterlilik ise bilgi, teknoloji ve ilim ile çalışmak, insanlarla (öğrenciler, meslektaşlar ve eğitim alanındaki diğer bireyler) çalışmak ve toplum içinde ve toplum ile birlikte (yerel, bölgesel, ulusal, Avrupa ve dünya seviyesinde) çalışmaktır.Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Bölümü, İngiliz Dili Eğitimi Ana Bilim Dalı, birinci, ikinci, üçüncü ve dördüncü sınıfta okuyan 154 İngilizce Öğretmeni adayı bu örnek olay çalışmasına katılmıştır. Avrupa Dil Portföyü ve Avrupa Ortak Çerçeve Metni'nin uygulanmasında, öğretmenler için gerekli yeterlilikler ile ilgili bir anket öğretmen adaylarına uygulanmıştır. Bazı açık uçlu sorular nitel olarak ele alınırken, anket sonuçları nicel olarak ve tanımlayıcı ve keşifsel istatistiklerle incelenmiştir. Elde edilen bulgular, ankete katılan öğretmen adaylarının kendilerini şu anda ?The Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications?da tanımlanan yeterlilikler konusunda yeterli bulduklarını ve ayrıca usta düzeyde yeterliliğe sahip olmak istediklerini ortaya koymuştur. Adayların şu anda kendilerini ne kadar çok yeterli buluyorlarsa, gelecekte de tanımlanan yeterlilikler çerçevesinde o kadar çok yeterli olmak istedikleri ortaya çıkmıştır. Görüşlerine göre, dördüncü sınıflar şu anda birinci ve ikinci sınıflara göre daha yeterlidir. Cinsiyet değişkeniyle ilgili olarak şu anki yeterlilikler açısından bir fark olmasa da, gelecekteki beklentiler yönünden bayanlar erkeklerden daha yeterli olmak istemektedirler. Dil beceri seviyeleri ile adayların hem şu anki yeterlilikleri hem de sahip olmak istedikleri yeterlilikler arasında olumlu bir ilişki vardır. Ayrıca, Anadolu Öğretmen Lisesi mezunları kendilerini Anadolu Lisesi mezunlarından daha yeterli algılamaktadırlar. Sınıf düzeyi ve mezun olunan lise türleri ile adayların sahip olmak istedikleri yeterlilikler arasında bir ilişki yoktur.Anahtar Kelimeler: Ortak Çerçeve Metni, Avrupa Dil Portföyü, Öğretmen Yeterlilikleri, İngilizce Öğretmeni Adayları. The aim of this study is to shed light on English Language Teacher (ELT) Trainees? perceptions about teacher competencies identified by Common European Framework (CEF) and European Language Portfolio (ELP) by describing their current and desired competencies. In doing so, how their perceptions on the competencies differ according to the variables such as ?grade level, gender, language level and the graduated high school? during the process of education is also explored.As identified in ?Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications?, the required teacher competencies are elaborated under four common European principles ?being a graduate profession, a profession placed within the context of lifelong learning, a mobile profession, a profession based on partnerships?. The three key competencies are ?working with information, technology and knowledge, working with their fellow human beings ? learners, colleagues and other partners in education, and working with and in society - at local, regional, national, European and broader global levels?.154 ELT trainees studying in the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th grade at the English Language Teaching Department, Foreign Language Education Programme at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University participated in this case study. A questionnaire about the required teacher competencies in the implementation of the CEF and the English Language Portfolio was administrated to these trainees, and the survey results were analyzed quantitatively and with the use of the descriptive and exploratory statistics while some open-ended questions were dealt with qualitatively. The findings obtained revealed that the trainees that participated in the questionnaire currently found themselves to be competent in the required teacher competencies defined in ?Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications?; moreover, they would like to have to be experts in these competencies. It has been marked that the more the trainees found themselves competent currently, the more they would like to be competent in the competencies described in the CEF and the ELP in the future. The fourth-grade trainees are currently more competent than the first and the second grades according to their views. In terms of gender, there is not a significant difference between males and females in relation to their current competencies, whereas females expect to be more competent than males. Moreover, there is a positive and significant relationship between the ELT trainees? language competency levels and their perceptions on both current and desired competencies that they have. Furthermore, the trainees graduated from Anatolian Teacher Training High Schools found themselves more competent than the trainees graduated from Anatolian High Schools. There is not a relationship between their grades or the type of high school the ELT trainees graduated and their perceptions on the desired competencies.Key words: Common European Framework (CEF), European Language Portfolio (ELP), Teacher Competencies, ELT Trainees. 177
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- 2011
11. LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING.
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KANİ, Zeynep Gülşah
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HIGHER education ,TEACHING ,TURKISH language education ,THEORY-practice relationship ,FOREIGN language education ,LEARNING - Abstract
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