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PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

WEDNESDAY

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0930 – 1000

Department of Western Languages and Literature Hikmet Öksüz Conference

Hall, KTU

Opening Speeches by

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Naci Kayaoğlu&

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Çıraklı

1000 – 1200Edward Said Hall, Sapir Hall, Krashen Hall & Golding Hall SESSION I

1200 – 1300* LUNCH BREAK

1300 – 1500 Edward Said Hall, Sapir Hall, SESSION II

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Krashen Hall & Golding Hall

1500 – 1520* BREAK

1520 – 1800 Edward Said Hall, Sapir Hall, Krashen Hall & Golding Hall SESSION III

1800* END OF SESSIONS

THURSDA

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0940 – 1140Edward Said Hall, Sapir

Hall, Krashen Hall & Golding Hall

SESSION I

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1140 – 1240 * LUNCH BREAK

1240 – 1440Edward Said Hall, Sapir

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SESSION II

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1500

Department of Western Languages and Literature Hikmet Öksüz Conference

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SONGS OF INNOCENCE: A Tribute to Silence

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KTU DELL GRADUATION SEMINAR PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

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Charlotte Brontë's Homodiegetic Narration in Jane Eyre

Merve Nur Özdemir

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Thomas Hardy and his novel Jude the Obscure

Esra Aydın Assoc. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

10:4011:00

The New Battleground: The Media; Advertising and Persuasion

Sema Acinik Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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The New Battleground: The Media, Mobile Media, Narrative Power and Media

Influence, Nationalism and The Media

Meliha Özdin Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

11:2011:40

The New Battleground: Propaganda Model, Public Opinion: Are Polls Democratic?

Ratings, Representations of Class, Representations of Masculinity,

Representations of Race, Representations of Women

Burçin Bendik Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

11:4012:00

An Effective Thinking Method of Reflective Judgement: Critical Thinking

Düha Arslan Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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13:0013:20

Gruesome Fiction from the Future’s World: Margaret Atwood’s The

Handmaid’s Tale

Eda Bayrak Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

13:2013:40

Marxism with its Key Concepts Onur Kaptan Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

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The Clergy in the Middle Ages Büşra Çakar Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

14:0014:20

The Use of Drama in English Language Teaching

Ayşe Özkan Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

14:2014:40

Media Guide for Students Özge Can Yalçın Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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Speech Act Theory Simge Işık Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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15:2015:40

Virginia Woolf and Her Concept of Androgyny

Gamze Bodur Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

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The Nature of Text: Text Linguistics Avni Güner Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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16:0016:20

On the Uses of Studying Literature Mine Çalhan Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

16:2016:40

The Use of Drama to Enhance Speaking Skills

Elifcan Bayır Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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The History of Turkish Theatre Neslihan Aktürk Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

17:0017:20

Freud and Psychoanalysis Fatma Nur Gündüz

Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

17:2017:40

Translating or Creating Something New? Kardelen Kaşka Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

17:4018:00

A Concise Introduction to Feminism: Occurrence of the First Wave Feminism

Sevil Gül Yılmaz Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

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KTU DELL GRADUATION SEMINAR PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

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10:0010:20

William Shakespeare as a Tragedy Writer Dilber Öter Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

10.20 10.40

One World to Rule Them All: Tolkien's Middle Earth

Şule Hekim Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

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A Story of Courtly Love: The Romance of The Rose

Hamide Sarı Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

11:0011:20

International Students’ Adjustment and Education Hardships in Turkey

Mahriban Jumadurdyyeva

Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

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11:2011:40

Child Labor in Victorian Era Seda Özel Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

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What Is Suicide? Fatma Nur Talaş Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

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Post-Truth: Perception vs. Reality Güner Kazancıoğlu

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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Voice in Texts?

Efilay Kaya Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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Critical Reading Gizem Kızılyar Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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A Darwinian Theory of Beauty Vildan Aktaş Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

14:2014:40

A Comparative Approach to Didem Madak, Sylvia Plath, Forugh Farrokhzad

Mehtap Gümüş Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

14:4015:00

The Conflict between Individual and Society in George Eliot’s Silas Marner

Kübra Akar Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

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15:2015:40

The Author’s Biography and Literary Works of Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Bilal Can Tulun Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Çıraklı

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Ecocriticism in Azra Kohen's Aeden Öznur Akdeniz Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Çıraklı

16:0016:20

Cultural and Historical Heritage of the UK: Variations of British English in the Culture

and Language of London

Alperen Mutlu Res. Asst. Öznur Yemez

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16:2016:40

Bahaeddin Özkişi:Life, Literary Identity and Works

Hüseyin Bedirhan Özcan

Res. Asst. Öznur Yemez

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The Biographical Elements of Ahmed Rasim Yasin Görmüş Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı

17:0017:20

Racism and Discrimination as a Heritage in Harry Potter’s Wizardry World: Legator

Salazar Slytherin to Heir Dark Lord Voldemort

Mert Aytar Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

17:2017:40

Thomas Hardy: A Victorian or a Modern Novelist?

Hamide Yaşar Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

17:4018:00

Examining The Lord of the Rings in Terms of Heroism

Devran Beşikci Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

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Aviation English Aslıhan Yetim Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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Sales Assistants’ Perception of Language Competence: Ordu-Fidangör Case

Cansu Duyar Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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An Investigation into Learning Strategies of Anxious EFL Learners

Yağmur Dönmez

Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

11:0011:20

How I Survived in America Muhammet Emin Katlan

Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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English as a Lingua Franca: ELF Approach to Pronunciation

Mihriban Kuş Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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Plagiarism in Academic World: The Ways and the Reasons

Hacer Taş Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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13:0013:20

Analyzing Idioms and Their Frequency in Two Textbooks: A Corpus-Based Study

Aysun Altun Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

13:2013:40

A Research on Students' Experiences with Corpus Use in Foreign Language Academic Writing Class at

Karadeniz Technical University

Furkan Kara & Betül Tuğçe

Mert

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

13:4014:00

Hedging in Academic Writing: Turkish EFL Learners' Use of Hedging in Their Academic

Papers

Ferhan Ertürk Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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14:0014:20

The Difficulties that Turkish People Have with the Pronunciation of English

Kadir Hakan Gül

Lec. Saye Zibande

14:2014:40

Reading Strategies Asuman Dilbaz Lec. Saye Zibande

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Vocabulary Learning Strategies in Studying English as a Foreign Language

Burcu Köksaldı Lec. Saye Zibande

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Evaluating the Cornerstones of Language Education: Course Books

Elif Şimşek Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

15:4016:00

A Brief Overview of Widespread Phenomenon: Academic Procrastination

Tuğçe Uzun Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

16:0016:20

A Slice of Teacher Written Feedback: The Heartbeat of Writing Instruction

Eren Kaya Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

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16:2016:40

Academic Emotions Şeyda Nur Geylan

Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

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The Necessity Language Learning and Language Qualities in Touristic Sector

Esma Arıcan Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

17:0017:20

Brand Names and Language Muhammet Aktop

Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

17:2017:40

Comparative Analysis of the Signboards in England in Turkey and Their Possible Reflections towards

the Culture- Specific Aspects of the Two Countries

Vildan Atıcı Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

17:4018:00

A Corpus Based Study on the Use of ‘Make’ by Turkish EFL Learners

Nagahan Sümeyye Kocabaş

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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KTU DELL GRADUATION SEMINAR PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

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The Effect of Learned Helplessness on EFL Learners’ Academic Achievement

Tuğçe Çağan Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

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Mobile Learning Readiness and Acceptance on EFL Undergraduate Students

Oğuzhan Yılmaz Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

10:4011:00

Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety among Non-Native English Teachers

İrem Naz Saraçoğlu

Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

11:0011:20

Students’ Perceptions towards Teacher Feedback and Peer Feedback in Their

Writing: The Case of EFL Students at KTU

Hanife Öztürk Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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A Comparison between Teachers' and EFL Students' Perceptions of Presentation

Anxiety

Hande Yıldız Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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The Relationship between Cultural Identity and the Degree of Pronunciation Anxiety

Firdevs Arslan Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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Foreign Language Demand of Turkish Business World

Begüm Hazal Yıldırım

Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

13:2013:40

Parental Involvement and Encouragement in Learning English as a Foreign Language in

Pre-School

Sinan Solmaz Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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Burnout among Senior Students: A Literature Review

Büşra Demir Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

14:00 Difficulties of English Foreign Language Hilal Sürmeneli Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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14:20 Learners in Translation

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Cultural Adaptation of Erasmus+ Exchange Program Students

Serkan Türk Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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Corpus-Based Analysis of Tertiary Level of Turkish EFL Learners’ Clausal Sentences

Büşranur Kuru Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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15:2015:40

Teaching Anxiety of Pre-Service Teachers: Concerns and Solutions

Hümeyra Polat Lec. Saye Zibande

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Gender Differences in Using Language Mehmet Kaan Aksu

Lec. Saye Zibande

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Vocabulary Learning and Autonomy Tuba Topsakal Lec. Saye Zibande

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Gratitude Expressions and Gender Differences in EFL Learners

Hilal Ercenik & Tuğba Tektaş

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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The Use of Discourse Markers in Tertiary Turkish EFL Learners’ and Native Learners’ Writing: The Case of ‘I Think’ and ‘In My

Opinion’

Gizem Dere Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

17:0017:20

My Erasmus Experience and Observations in Poland

Mehmet Ali Kavak

Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

17:2017:40

Rethinking Academic Procrastination: Active Procrastination as a Form of Self-

regulation

Ömer Küçükkaya Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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How to Develop Emotional Intelligence? Filiz Güler Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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The Use of Adverbial Connectors in Academic Writings of Native Speakers of

English and EFL Students

Aleyna Yılmaz Pektaş

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A Corpus Based Study on L2 English Hypothetical Conditionals

Dilek Cankur Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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Roles of Quantifiers in Argumentative Writing and Classroom Activities in Corpus-Based

Approaches

Hanife Yalçın Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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How Students Choose a University? Orkun Oygur Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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Causes and Impacts of Absenteeism among University Students

Yağmur Küçükbekir

Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

11:2011:40

Digital Game Based Language Learning Ahmet Tolga Abdal

Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz

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How A Book Changes One's Life Kübra Aydınlı Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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Computer Adaptive Testing on Determining Students’ Level of Language

Ramazan Sağlam Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

13:20 The Use of L1 In L2 Classes: Students’ and Leyla Ömeroğlu Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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13:40 Teachers’ Perspectives

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Why Am I Anxious During Listening: Anxiety in Second Language?

Fatmanur Ertan Lec. Saye Zibande

14:0014:20

A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Adverbs in Academic Vocabulary by Academic

Authors

Yeliz ZAMBAK Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

14:2014:40

A Case Study in Corpus Analysis: 15 July Coup Attempt in Turkey

İrfan KANKUL Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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A Nutshell Review of Higher Education: Master and Doctoral Degrees

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The New Transition System to Secondary Education (Lks) with Two Alternatives: ‘Suffering’

Future under ‘Recurring’ System?

Ebru Kara Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

10.20 10.40

The Same System, a New Name: A Snapshot of the New University Entrance Exam (YKS)

Burak Ayan Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

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Introspective Observation of EFL Learners as Evidenced in Their Translation Studies

Kiraz Salman Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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11:0011:20

Attitudes of L2 Learners toward Code-Switching

Tansu Lokumcu Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

11:2011:40

Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Servet Tuğba Bayırol

Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul

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A Comparative Research on Impact of Erasmus Exchange Program on Students'

Personal Development: Does Erasmus Affect Turkish or European Students Most?

Yasemin Demir Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

13:0013:20

Evaluation of Initial Teacher Training's Efficiency According to Students' View

Halil Samet Yılmaz

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

13:2013:40

Polysemous Verbs and Modality in Native and Non-Native Argumentative Writing: A

Corpus-Based Study

Ziynet Kübra Bekaroğlu

Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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Integrating Literature into Language Instruction: Let Shakespeare Be Your

Teacher!

Ömer Alptuğ Doğan

Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya

14:0014:20

Emotional Intelligence Gülden Öztürk Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

14:2014:40

Teacher’s Attitudes towards the Use of Creative Drama in ELT

Beyza Karagüzel Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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KTU DELL GRADUATION SEMINAR PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

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Foreign Language Anxiety across Different Language Skills: Listening, Speaking,

Reading and Writing

Zübeyde Travaç Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

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Munich “My Hometown” Gözde Şirin Arslan Inst. Hasan Sağlamel

11:0011:20

Corpus Analysis of Verbs of Perception in Native (LOCNESS) and Non-Native (TICLE)

Corpora

Ecem Pehlivan Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

11:20 The Use of Lexical Bundles in Academic Seda Sincer Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay

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11:40 Research Articles: Corpus-Based Comparative Analysis

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Lexical Ties in Texts: Categories of Cohesion and Coherence

Sedef Yancar Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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Queen Victoria and the Status of Women in the Victorian Era

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A Comparative Analysis of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Miraç Uslusoy Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz

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Functional Text Analysis: A Guide For Students

Tunahan Turgut Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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Context in Translation: Definition, Access and Teamwork

Ebru Karabıçak Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

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A Doll’s House: Henrik Ibsen’s Nora as an Angel in the House

Betül Akkuş Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

11:2011:40

The Elizabethan Theatre and William Shakespeare’s Othello

Beyza Menteşoğlu Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız

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Factors Affecting the Process of Translation Yunus Emre Değermenci

Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

13:0013:20

Media: A Kingdom of Lies? Emine Dilara Yılmaz

Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

13:2013:40

The Language of Conversation Seray Koçak Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut

13:40 A Mind against Society: Maggie Tulliver in Meltem Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

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14:00 George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss Bahçekapılı

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Jane Austen and Her Last Novel: Persuasion Rakiye Özdal Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

14:2014:40

Capitalism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Meryem Güler Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour

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Charlotte Brontë’s Homodiegetic Narration in Jane Eyre

Merve Nur Özdemir(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My presentation is about Charlotte Brontë’s life and literary works. At the beginning part of my presentation, I will provide my audience with some biographical information about Brontë’s life. Then I will introduce her literary works. Here, I will focus on the critical reactions to her works. Then, focusing my attention on Brontë’s Jane Eyre, I will analyse the characteristics of the narrator in this novel. I will do so by the help of a concept from narrartology, homodiegetic narrative. I will introduce this concept and conclude my presentation by giving an outline of my study during the next semester.

Keywords: narrartology, homodiegetic narrator, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 

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Thomas Hardy and His Novel Jude the Obscure

Esra Aydın (Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My seminar presentation deals with Thomas Hardy as a Victorian novelist. My presentation will include a brief review of Hardy’s life, his works, and his writing style. Towards the end of my presentation, I will focus on Hardy’s last novel Jude the Obscure. Being generally considered as the last Victorian novelist, Hardy portrays the characteristics of the time in his works. Accordingly, the main narrative concerns in his works are marriage, religion, society and social class, isolation, gender, and love. In Jude the obscure, Hardy develops some of these themes. Published in 1895, Jude the Obscure tells the story of the central character Jude Fawley's tragic life and failed love experiences. I will conclude my presentation by introducing my main questions about this novel, and telling my audience how I plan to develop my raised questions in my thesis project during next semester.

Keywords: Thomas Hardy, Hardy’s novels, Victorian Era, Jude the Obscure, Jude Fawley

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The New Battleground: The Media; Advertising and Persuasion

Sema Acinik (Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Fehmi TURGUT)

The aim of this seminar is to explain the shape of media and advertising within cultural, social realms, and economic realms. Media and advertising are important social phenomena that exert power in every sphere of our daily lives. From the computers to televisions, newsapapers to e-mails, cell phones to films and music, man has fallen under a mediatic influence. Thus, the media has become a battleground for issues such as depictions of race, gender. Advertising is another subject that is the largest industrial economy areas and has effect on many circles of life. It shows what will make the public happy and who they are. Consumers are affected by advertising in multiple media. With the attack and influence of marketing media, the society’s mind is changed and molded.

Keywords: media, culture, society, advertising, battleground

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The New Battleground: The media, mobile media, narrative power and media influence, nationalism and the media

Meliha Özdin(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Fehmi Turgut)

Mobile media has been in our lives for a long time. Actually, man himself has been a mobile media means since he first started talking and writing. The rapid advances in technology have created a very complicated interconnectedness among individuals, which means everyone can reach each other at any moment. People first painted the cave. Then they began to write in parchments

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with the invention of the paper. However, today the use of media, or media as aconcept has lost its actual meaning as a means of communication. It has become a battlefield in which words and sentences have transformed into bullets and missiles. The purpose of this presentation is to uncover how the media has become a new battlefield in both interpersonal and international relations.

Keywords: media, mobile media, history of media, narrative power, media influence

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The New Battleground: Propaganda Model, Public Opinion: Are Polls Democratic? Ratings, Representations of Class, Representations of Masculinity, Representations of Race,

Representations of Women

Burçin Bendik(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Since media has entered our lives, it is very effective in any part of our decisions. Thus, most of the media channels have very different way to change our mind. In the first topic of this study, Propaganda Model which is formulated and applied by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky shows us how media play on important role on our lives. As another example “Are Polls Democratic?” They have a big role on our decisions thanks to the media. Secondly, this study will answer the importance of ratings, how media represents Class, Masculinity, Race and the Women. Finally, all these topics will be analyzed in different outlines.

Keywords: media, propaganda, polls, ratings, class, masculinity, race, women

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An Effective Thinking Method of Reflective Judgement: Critical Thinking

Düha ARSLAN(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi TURGUT)

The aim of this study deal with critical thinking what critical thinking is, what benefits of critical thinking are on learners/students, and what the effects of critical thinking are on reading and writing. Critical thinking is defined in various ways. One definition is the process of reasonably deciding what to believe. Another definition says that it analyses arguments and generates insights into particular meanings. Generally, critical thinking is a reflective judgement. It provides the skills of choosing, organising and using to the learners. In this way, the learners may easily select to understand particular meaning. There are four main skills of critical thinking: interpreting, analysing, reasoning, evaluating that every learner needs to have and are a kind of meaning process. The learners having these essential four skills are able to create knowledge with less dependence on textbooks.

Keywords: critical thinking, skills, interpreting, analysing, reasoning, evaluating, reading, writing.

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Gruesome Fiction from the Future’s World: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Eda Bayrak(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

For centuries, controversy over women’s struggle, identity and self-respect have remained constantly updated in the patriarchal order. Beyond being a human, the acceptance of a woman’s body as an element, their being enslaved and unidentified prompt to struggle. In Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, an unnamed woman was portrayed in a dystopic world. Indeed, this novel, which fits into the genre of dystopian literature, describes the subjugated women to sexual slavery. Dystopia is an imaginary place that the social order is destroyed and the atmosphere of this world is like a hell. In this context, this study aims to analyse Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale as a dystopic novel which represents the role and struggle of the women in a dystopic world.

Keywords: Margaret Atwood, dystopia, The Handmaid’s Tale, women’s role and struggle

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Marxism with its Key Concepts

Onur Kaptan(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan YILDIZ)

Marxism as a political and philosophical idea aims to change the world system by eliminating the class structure. Troubles in society started with the class difference in the nineteenth century. Those troubles were related to profit and money. In the Victorian era, people became poorer because bourgeois made their profit and did not think about the workers. According to Marx, the system in this era was flawed, and to provide equal chance of living standards to society, elimination of class structure was necessary. To eliminate class structure and make a healthy system for society, one should examine what kinds of illnesses capitalism had when it came to society. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as pioneers of the Marxist ideas laid some key concepts to illuminate the sicknesses of capitalism and class structure. Accordingly, this study aims to explain the key concepts of Marxism: economic base and superstructure, alienation, commodity fetishism and commodification.

Keywords: social class structure, economic base and superstructure, alienation, commodity fetishism, commodification

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The Clergy in the Middle Ages

Büşra Çakar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

In the Middle Ages, everyone belonged to a particular social category. So, the idea of the “estates” is important to the social structure of the Middle Ages. The feudal medieval society was traditionally divided into three estates. The first estate was the clergy consisting of the people who prayed. The second estate was the nobility, those who fought. The third estate was the commoners, those who worked. The reason why the clergy was the first estate is that they received their authority from God. The nobility also received their authority from the clergy.  The commoners had no rights or authority. Briefly, each of the estates played an important role in the hierarchical social order. But, after a while, especially in the late fourteenth century, the members of the estates, in particular the clergy, violated the traditional borders of the three estates. This presentation shortly deals with the three estates and then focuses on the clergy and how the members of the clergy abused their responsibilities and duties in the Middle Ages.

Keywords: The Middle Ages, the three estates, the clergy, the nobility, the commoners

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The Use of Drama in English Language Teaching

Ayşe Özkan(Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Despite having education for many years, learners still may not have enough courage to use the language in front of an audience. Traditional English classes have an active role in language teaching; however, they do not give the learners adequate opportunity to use their output. This means while the main purpose of language teaching is to ensure communication in daily life, it is neglected. For this purpose, drama in English language teaching has been used as a technique for many years. In this regard, this presentation deals with the use of drama in English language teaching. In order to clarify the concept, it tries to answer some questions such as what drama is, who needs it, and when it can be used in class. Then, it includes strategies about how drama can be put into practise in classrooms with the help of activities such as mime, simulation, role-play, exploiting a scripted play, creating one's own script improvisation without a script, exploiting the course book for dramatic purposes and further possibilities. Finally, it draws at the conclusion with the advantages of using drama in ELT classes.

Keywords: drama, language teaching, role play,

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Media Guide for Students

Özge Can Yalçın(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

The term ‘media’ includes the whole range of modern communications media: television, the cinema, video, radio, photography, advertising, newspapers and magazines, recorded music, computer games and the internet. There is a connection between the media and the education. Media education is education about the media. This is not the same as education through the media – for example, using TV or the internet to learn about other school subjects. Our aim isn’t to stop you from watching your favourite TV programmes, or to save you from what some people see as harmful influences. Media would not exist without audiences. Yet the media have to compete for people’s attention and interest; and finding and keeping an audience is not easy. New technologies create all sorts of possibilities for making media. With the right computer packages, you can manipulate photographs and images, create layouts for newspapers or magazines, edit video and sound, and put your work out on the World Wide Web. This technology is getting cheaper all the time, and it can make your work look really professional. Aims of this study are explaining media education, production, key questions, audiences, and making media.

Keywords: media, students, technology, guide

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Speech Act Theory

Simge Işık(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Fehmi Turgut)

The purpose of this study is to explain the nature of speech act theory which claims that utterances are examined by their propositional content, the intention of the utterance, and its outcome. A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication. In the past three decades, speech act theory has become an important branch of the contemporary theory of language. This theory initiated by John L. Austin, developed by John R. Searle. The theory is clarified and analysed both in regards to its faults and advantages. Suggestions for the progression of the theory are developed, using the ideas of other scholars and theorists. By studying how utterances are formed and issued, along with the looking into utterance circumstances and sincerity, one can garner a clear glimpse into what constitutes a performative speech act and what does not.

Keywords: performative function, utterances, propositional content, intention of utterance, speech act

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Virginia Woolf and Her Concept of Androgyny

Gamze Bodur(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Androgyny is a concept which means to have both male and female features. As a feminist writer, Virginia Woolf widely uses concept of androgyny in her works. According to her, by combining the traits of men and women, we become a real person, which is also a necessity to be a good writer. Writing as a purely man or a woman hinders creativity. So, for Woolf, creative mind should be androgynous. Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Orlando (1928) deal with her androgyny concept. In A Room of One’s Own, by supporting woman writers, Woolf explains her concept of androgyny. In Orlando, Woolf discusses how to become an ideal person with sex change. In her works, we can see her concept of androgyny with different aspects. In this respect, this study aims to analyse Woolf’s concept of androgyny as depicted in her A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Orlando.

Keywords: Virginia Woolf, androgyny, A Room of One’s Own, Orlando.

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The Nature of Text: Text Linguistics

Avni Güner(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Text linguistics, also known as written discourse analysis, seeks to analyze texts beyond the level of the sentence, typically but not necessarily in their situational context. Text linguistics tends to focus on the patterns of how information flows within and among sentences by looking at aspects of texts like coherence, cohesion, the distribution of topics and comments, and other discourse structures. Much like syntax is concerned with the structure of sentences, text linguistics is concerned with the structure of texts. Accordingly, text linguisticscan be defined as the study of text as a product or as a process. The text-as-a-product approach is focused on the text cohesion, coherence, topical organization, illocutionary structure and communicative functions; the text-as-a-process perspective studies the text production, reception and interpretation. Text can be understood as an instance of language use, a relatively self-contained unit of communication. As a ´communicative occurrence´ it meets seven criteria of textuality (the constitutive principles of textual communication): cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality and intertextuality, and three regulative principles of textual communication: efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness.

Keywords: text linguistics, textuality, cohesion, coherence

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On the Uses of Studying Literature

Mine Çalhan(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Literature, like any art form, engages the reader in a complex set of emotional, symbolic, moral, intellectual and social considerations. Literature uses the normal means of communication -- language, images, symbols, codes, stories -- but uses them with more complexity and subtlety than is normal in everyday communication. As well, it avails itself of a certain sensibility we have to such things as form, sensual experience, rhythm, repetition, contrast, which sensibility we call the 'aesthetic'. What I have listed below are a number of suggestions as to how literature works for us, presented as theses; they are tentative -- open to challenge and change -- and not exclusive. My goal is to give you a sense of how one can begin to conceptualize why, aside from the fact that it might be fun, one can profit from the reading and study of literature. In the case of literature, as with any art form, reading and study are closely allied: the more one learns how literature works, the more open one is to the effects that it can have -- one gains competency as a reader, and literature becomes richer and more engaging for one. You will notice that there are overlaps among the theories.

Keywords: thesis, studying literature, aesthetic tools, types of thesis

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The Use of Drama to Enhance Speaking Skills

Elifcan Bayır(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Drama is an effective tool that has been used recently in education to enhance students’ psychomotor and mental capacity. Using drama provides many advantages to students in speaking, listening, interpreting, and comprehending the languages that they are supposed to know. In this presentation, how significant using drama activity is for students to enhance their speaking skills was taken into account mostly. The objectives of this study are to examine the types of drama activities such as mime, role play, simulation, improvisation, scripts and what aspects they will get after being in a drama activity. Many students have difficulties in speaking a second language, especially they do not know how to practice the words, to put information into practice, and to express themselves. However, drama gives students an opportunity to practice the language, to learn new vocabulary, and to reduce their fears on speaking the target language.

Keywords: types of drama activities, speaking, target language, improving skills.

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Freud and Psychoanalysis

Fatma Nur Gündüz(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

The aim of this study is to examine the Heathcliff’s – the protagonist of Wuthering Heights- examination through Freud’s Oedipus complex. Apart from this, character’s hidden feelings and desires that were engaved in his subconscious is important psychoanalytical elements which direct his behaviour. The reflections of his childhood experiences can be observed in the rest of his lives, thus emphasizing the importance Freud gives top ast experiences. Heatcliff tries to satisfy his inner instincts by tormenting those who caused him to suffer. In analysing the novel, particularly repressed thoughts and id, ego and superego which are the three main systems of the structural identity theory in psychoanalysis are significant. Shortly, the objective of this study is to analyse the above mentioned Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights with Freud’s psychoanalytical approach and to examine character’s inner selves and the reasons of his attitude.

Keywords: psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex, id, ego, superego, Wuthering Heights

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Translating or Creating Something New?

Kardelen Kaşka(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

One of the most challenging types of translation is the literary translation. Literary translation is not only a process of translation, but also a process of creation. Thus, the literary translator should be well aware of the culture, structure and idiomatic expressions of both the source and target languages. So, while translating a literary text, the students may face with many unexpected problems. Otherwise, translation will not be natural and mislead the readers. This study aims to analyze the possible problems students face with making literary translation. In this study, it will be discussed definition of translation, translation equivalence, translation problems and previous studies will be given.

Keywords: challenge, translation, literary, culture, structure, idiomatic expressions, problems

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A Concise Introduction to Feminism: Occurrence of First Wave Feminism

Sevil Gül Yılmaz(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

Women have been struggling against the inequality of their legal rights as a human in almost every part of their lives since the 18th century. Their efforts to have equal rights and freedom just like men have gave a shape to concept of feminism of 19 th century. Feminism can be defined as an approach which holds no brief for discrimination of two genders, defends the equal rights and tries to prevent controlling of male dominated settlement. The historical basis of feminism traces back to last years of 18th century and early 19th century and covers the period until 21st century. Women’s different perceptions of self-awareness have created different approaches. As a result, feminist movement has come into existence with 3 waves. This presentation gives a general information about concept of feminism, its historical background as an activity and then how the first wave feminism occurred, women’s role in that society, in what ways this movement tried to support women and finally a concise evaluation of the Subjection of Women which analyzes women’s status and equality by John Stuart Mill.

Keywords: women, inequality, feminism, feminist movement, gender, discrimination

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William Shakespeare as a Tragedy Writer

Dilber Öter(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences. The term tragedy dates back to the ancient Greek. Although the word tragedy is often used loosely to describe any sort of disaster or misfortune, it more precisely refers to a work of art that probes with serious questions concerning the role of man in the universe. Tragedy dating back to the Greek was introduced to many cultures and civilizations, and England was also one of them. The Elizabethan period, especially, has been defined as the golden age of theatre and tragedy with its master of tragedy: William Shakespeare. The very well-received examples of Shakespeare’s tragedy are Titus Andronicus (1594), Romeo and Juliet (1597), Julius Ceasar (1623), Hamlet (1603), Othello (1622), King Lear (1608), Macbeth (1623), Anthony and Cleopatra (1623), and Coriolanus (1623). Shakespeare- playwright, actor, and poet- was also known as the “Bard of Avon” due to his contributions to tragedy by his unique works. In this context, this study aims to depict the origin and background of tragedy, the Elizabethan theatre and William Shakespeare as a great tragedy writer.

Key words: The Elizabethan theatre, tragedy, William Shakespeare

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One World To Rule Them All: Tolkien’s Middle Earth

Şule Hekim(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Fantasy is a term which suggests an unreal world of different creatures not living in our universe. It refers to a created universe completely different from our universe along with magical and supernatural events. Fantasy fiction has gained importance since the ninth and the twentieth centuries. Works from those centuries to twenty first century are regarded as belonging to modern fantasy literature. As the father of fantasy, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien produced important works in the genre such as TheHobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. He created a world which is named Middle Earth. To make his Middle Earth consistent and considerable, he created folklore, history, and different races. The aim of this study is to depict Middle Earth with its main characteristics along with the brief life story of J.R.R. Tolkien. In this sense, Tolkien’s life will be presented at first, and then the history and geography of Middle Earth will be portrayed. Moreover, some notable places and important races in Middle Earth will be explained. At the end, the three works of Tolkien will be given to picture his Middle Earth.

Keywords: Middle Earth, fantasy, Tolkien, fictional world

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A Story of Courtly Love: The Romance of the Rose

Hamide Sarı(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

The following work investigates allegory of the art of courtly love in The Romance of the Rose that was begun by Guillaime de Lorris and completed by Jean de Meun in the thirteen century. This poem is one of the most popular French poem of the later Middle Ages and a vast store of information about medieval life and thought. Somepartof The Romance of the Rose was translated by Geoffrey Chaucer. Additionally, a dream allegory beginning at the walled garden describes a romantic courtly love over exertions to obtain the Rose and satires of the contemporary society. Hereby, this study is aim to make an allegorical reading of courtly love in The Romance of the Rose.

Keywords: The Romance of the Rose, courtly love, allegory, medieval age, Chaucer

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International Students’ Adjustment and Education Hardships in Turkey

Mahriban Jumadurdyyeva(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

Thenumber of students who come to Turkey for the purpose of education from different countries and different cultures is increasing. Often these students come from the Balkan, Middle Eastern, Africa and Turkish Republics countries. These students bring a range of benefits to the host country in economic contributions, introduction of their culture and good relations among countries. However, the choice to study in Turkey which is situated among three seas and divided Europe and Asia may present many challenges for the international student including the experience of acculturative stress and difficulties with adjustment to the education system and environment of Turkey. Adjustment challenges are primarily attributable to English language and Turkish language proficiency and culture. Someof international students take education and an exam that are unknown for them applied at the universities for the first time. Achievement is affected by English and Turkish proficiency, academic skills and educational background. This research expresses the features of individual characteristics, interaction with Turkish students, perceived discrimination, culture and education levels of international students which is collected from different faculties foreign students.

Keywords: international students, adjustment, education level, Turkish and English language proficiency.

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Child Labor in Victorian Era

Seda Özel(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

This study analyzes child labor in Victorian era, nineteen century. In particular, firstly it clarifies who Victoria is and then it is told about the early Victorian era and the late Victorian era. In addition these, it tells about time of changes. Later, it clarifies the Industrial Revolution briefly. Finally, real subject of child labor in Victorian era is told. This study’ purpose shows the children’s hard times in Victorian class. Its another aim is which they work in condition and why they have to work. This study tries to clarify these topics.

Keywords: Victorian era, child labour, Industrial Revoluation, hard times, times changes

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What Is Suicide?

Fatma Nur Talaş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

Suicide is a problem that necessary to solve for years. It causes die many people funereally. Unfortunately, reasons of suicide cannot know by family, relatives or friends of person who commit suicide. The purpose of this study, informing people about reasons of suicide, psychology of suicide and how suicide can be prevented? How many people kill himself every year, the most common factors of suicide and age range of people who commit suicide are taken place in this study. Also, suicide in literature is mentioned. This study includes thoughts and expressions of psychologists. Many article about psychology of people who commit suicide, reasons of suicide, Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and Apter hypothesis about suicide are used in this study.

Keywords: suicide, psychoanalytic, suicide in literature, psychology

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Post-Truth: Perception vs Reality

Güner Kazancıoğlu(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi TURGUT)

The Web and the social networks have given legions of idiots the right to speak, whereas before they had no voice.

Umberto Eco

The ways media means spread fake news make lies more commonplace and hence, relativize the truth. This leads to the fading of the value or credibility of the media in comparison to personal opinions. Thus, the facts themselves take second place, while “how” a story is told takes precedence over “what”. People care not about what has happened, but rather about listening, seeing and reading the version of facts which more closely fits with each person’s ideology. This notion can be explained with the word Post-truth, which was declared as the Word of the year for 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary. Thus, the unexpected political events and unexplainable social situations that occurred in 2016 has found their perfect word to hide behind. Nowadays, social networks such as Youtube, Whatsapp, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter or any other

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personal blogs have become instant communication platforms which help something spread all over the world just in seconds without any truth-filter. This study underlines the effects of the social networks on society and abuse of access with distorted information chunks.

Keywords: post-truth, reality, perception, facts, alternative facts, fake news, media, social media

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What Do We Mean When We Talk about Voice in Texts?

Efilay Kaya(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Nowadays, anything that contains meaning, which does not necessarily have to be discourse, can be acknowledged as some kind of “text”. When it comes to the use of voice in order to represent discourse or emphasize it, one must swim against the stream of the dominant visual metaphor and accentuate the importance of the sound metaphor. As the word “voice” recently has gained importance and has been started to be used more in every possible way, it unfortunately leads to the fact that it lost its meaning. It is of great importance to be aware of what is really meant by the term “voice” or else it will only be a term that expresses the goodness and virtue of a writing. As voice can be treated in a literal and physical way, it is also possible to see how it transfers to writing. Those senses of voices, that can be applied to writing, can be distinguished in five different ways can those can be categorised in: the audible voice, dramatic voice, recognizable or distinctive voice, voice with authority and lastly resonant voice or presence. Each of these senses will be explained on what they are and how they are just but most importantly how they can be transfer into writing.

Keywords: voice, discourse, literal voice, dramatic voice, distinctive voice, resonant voice

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Critical Reading

Gizem Kızılyar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

To non -critical readers, texts provide facts. Readers gain knowledge by memorizing the statements within a text. This is a surface-level of learning and won’t get you very far at all in your research, which has to be an in depth understanding of your subject. To the critical reader, any single text provides but one portrayal of the facts, one individual’s “take” on the subject matter. Critical readers thus recognise not only what a text says, but also how that text portrays the subject matter. They recognise the various ways in which each and every text is the unique creation of a unique author. A non-critical reader might read a history book to learn the facts of the situation or to discover an accepted interpretation of those events. A critical reader might read the same work to appreciate how a particular perspective on the events and a particular selection of facts can lead to particular understanding.

Keywords: critical, text, reader, non-critical

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A Darwinian Theory of Beauty Based on Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Aesthetic

Vildan Aktaş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

A cat’s purr, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Charlie Chaplin dancing across the screen, a Chuck Palahniuk novel, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, or a stunning match-winning goal in a World Cup soccer match… What is the beauty? Is it this brief list includes creature beings, piece of arts, skilled human actions or is it something like ‘‘One of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty.’’ as Oscar Wilde defined in his spectacular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray? Moreover, is the theory- it’s in the eye of the beholder that is a matter of public record- can be the diorism of beauty? Ultimately, I can give you a taste what I intellectualize as the most puissant theory of beauty we yet have; and I get it not from a postmodern art theorist, or bigwig art-critic. This theory comes from an adept on worms and pigeon breeding, Charles Darwin, with my combine with Oscar Wilde’s percept of aesthetic.

Keywords: beauty, Darwinism, aesthetic, Oscar Wilde, art, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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A Comparative Approach to Didem Madak, Sylvia Plath, and Forugh Farrokhzad

Mehtap Gümüş(Supervisor: Asst.Prof. Dr. Karam Nayepbour)

My seminar presentation is about three writers from three different languages. My study is in fact a comparative study. A comparative study in literature generally analyses texts from different languages in terms of language, subject, and theme. In my study, I compare three female poets from three different languages—the American poet Sylvia Plath, the Turkish poet Didem Madak, and the Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad. In my seminar presentation, I will first introduce the comparative literature. Here I will focus on the historical development of comparative studies as a literary approach. In the second part, I will introduce the three poets and their poetry. Despite the fact that they are from different languages, their poetry shows some similarities. I will conclude my presentation by focusing on the aspects I am going to analyse in the three mentioned poets’ poetry in my graduation thesis project next semester.

Keywords: comparative literature, Sylvia Plath, Didem Madak, Forugh Farrokhzad

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The Conflict between Individual and Society in George Eliot Silas Marner

Kübra Akar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My seminar is about Silas Marner by George Eliot. I will first introduce the writer, George Eliot, focusing on her life and literary works. In the second part, I will try to show how her works have been read throughout the years by critics, and what themes are generally present in her novels.Then, I will introduce Eliot’s novel Silas Marner and the possible questions in this novel that I can analyse in my graduation thesis project. Eliot in this novel focuses on the conflict between the protoganist Silas Marner and the society in which he lives.

Keywords: individual, society, conflict, Silas Marner, George Eliot

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The Author’s Biography and Literary Works of Sait Faik Abasıyanık

Bilal Can Tulun(Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Çıraklı)

The current study aims to represent the biography of Sait Faik Abasıyanık accounted as one of the most outstanding narrators in Turkish Literature especially within the context of the substantial contributions and position of the author. Sait Faik Abasıyanık wrote with a passion and proclaimed “I would go mad if I did not write.” In his stories, he criticized the wealthy, privileged class and accused them of being snobbish and abusive, and he chose to defend the poor. Abasıyanık was especially successfully in expressing human trust and the joy of life that emerged from it. He is considered a master storyteller because within the short span of the genre, he managed to portray and defend an array of human thought, emotions and conditions, with a special emphasis on individuals who did not lose anything from their humanities despite the abuse that they withstood. In this respect, the purpose of this study is to emphasize that Abasıyanık, one of the prominent authors of Turkish story, is important milestone in Turkish literature with his contributions to contemporary storytelling.

Keywords: biography, literature, contributions, narrator, storyteller

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Ecocriticism in Azra Kohen’s Aeden

Öznur Akdeniz(Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Zeki Çıraklı)

In spite of all the perfection in Aeden, the planet Earth is full of problems and bitterness. The novel offers an outward view to the reality of the problems which people brought to our world Earth. The nonsense that is considered as normal, which prevents the development of human life and the conversion of a person into a more meaningful existence, is written in the novel based on scientific evidence. People are aware of using mines and materials, which the planet offers them, in a wrong way. And even this fact and even they know what kind of problems arise as a cause, they do not know how to solve those problems, because of the adaption feature the human organism starts to ignore them. To be able to solve a problem, it is necessary to know the origin of the problem. In this sense, Aeden is a compassionate novel. In this novel, Kohen draws an impression of nature that is repressed by human beings. Nature is not just simple scenery or a stage set in Kohen's fiction; it plays a major role in her characters' regression, which develops in parallel to their alienation from nature. This study explores the origins of man's alienation in nature in Kohen's work, and the implications for society such as alienation continue. This study employs an ecocritical approach to explore the relationship between humans and nature in the novel Aeden of Akilah Azra Kohen.

Keywords: Akilah Azra Kohen, Aeden, ecocriticism

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Cultural and Historical Heritage of the UK: Variations of British English in the Culture and Language of London

Alperen Mutlu (Supervisor: Res. Asst. Öznur Yemez)

London, the capital of Great Britain, is also one of the world's capitals of finance, fashion, arts and entertainment. It is among the oldest of the world’s great cities. Its history spanning nearly two millennia and one of the most cosmopolitan city across the world. In this regard, this study aims to introduce a capital city of the UK, London as a multicultural city, its cultural, historical, and geographical aspects and the uniquely diverse range of accents and dialects used in the city of London. This study also shows London’s huge variety of distinct regional accents to its various districts. Furthermore, the study argues that by far London is Britain’s largest metropolis; it is also the country’s economic, transportation, and cultural centre. Thus, it is worth having an intensive look into the city of London.

Keywords: language, culture, dialect, accent, variety, British English

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Bahaeddin Özkişi; Life, Literary Identity and Works

Hüseyin Bedirhan Özcan(Supervisor: Res. Asst. Öznur Yemez)

Bahaeddin Özkişi whose “Göç Zamanı” I translate as my dissertation study has lived between 1928 and 1975. He has published two stories and three novels in his lifetime. The author creates his works in a structure of human being, history and culture. While narrating the human being, he transmits several details about it with sophisticated and profound psychological analyses. While approaching the history, he particularly centered around "brave deeds and the obscure”. This study aims to investigate and tell about his life, literary identity and works. In this survey his literary character is clarified in related topics. Lastly, Bahaeddin Özkişi, having something to say about culture and civilization is depicted partially in the study.

Keywords: “Göç Zamanı,” dissertation, history, translate, literary work

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The Biographical Elements of Ahmed Rasim

Yasin Görmüş(Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı)

This survey explores the biography and literary heritage of Ahmed RASIM, born as an orphan in Istanbul in 1865. Raised by his mother, Nevber Hanım, he has developed his literary side and graduated with great success. Once teaching at schools for a short time, he became deputy of Istanbul in 1927. His works were published on newspapers such as Ceride-i Havadis, Tasvir-i Efkar, Cumhuriyet. This survey deals with the works of Ahmed RASIM, because he wrote some novels and stories as well as histories, geographies and journals. Particularly, he became popular with his anecdotes and essays. As a result of this survey, we learned that he was a successful and insightful observer of everyday life with all its colours and shades. In fact, he has narrated the living city of Istanbul and Istanbulites in an impressive way.

Keywords: Ahmed Rasim, biography, Istanbul, Istanbulite author

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Racism and Discrimination as a Heritage in Harry Potter`s Wizardry World: Legator Salazar Slytherin to Heir Dark Lord Voldemort

Mert Aytar(Supervisor: Asst.Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Since the beginning of humankind, there have always been a supremacy competition and the wish of keeping only one herd’s own existence, distinctness, and thoughts alive; and two of the pioneer fractions of this emerge as racism and discrimination. It seems that this fact has affected all branches of life so much that even the fictional world of witchcraft of Harry Potter has not been omitted. Within this respect, this presentation aims to clarify what racism and discrimination mean in point of fact and wizardry world in the first step. And then, different types of races of the world of wizards will be listed and introduced. Later, Salazar SLYTHERIN’s identity and segregationist idea, and that he legates the ideology to the next generations will be explained. Finally, the significant points reflecting upon the racism and discrimination in Harry Potter, such as who is Tom Marvolo RIDDLE, how he became Dark Lord VOLDEMORT by inheriting the legacy and being the heir, and attempting to purify the Wizardry World by annihilating the other races, will be discussed.

Keywords: racism, discrimination, races of wizardry world, Salazar Slytherin, Lord Voldemort, purification ideology

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Thomas Hardy: A Victorian or a Modern Novelist?

Hamide Yaşar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

The presentation aims to depict Thomas Hardy as a modern novelist different from the rest of the Victorian novelists. First, there will be a short introduction to Hardy’s life and then will continue with his works. With this aim, the presentation will deal with Thomas Hardy with its biographical and literary background and then will focus on the different themes which separate Thomas Hardy from the other Victorian novelists mainly through the examples from his Jude the Obscure.

Keywords: Thomas Hardy, Victorian novel, Jude the Obscure

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Examining The Lord of the Rings in Terms of Heroism

Devran Beşikçi(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Heroism is a term which is associated with courage and selfless action. The term ‘hero’ dates back to the early ages, but the most important example of heroism in English literature is Beowulf. Since then, the terms hero and heroism have been used in literary texts. Heroism and heroes in literature are mainly related to epics. In epics, heroes are strong in build and brave in heart; they fight with dragons and monsters, slaying them and saving people and lands, becoming kings and living as their saviour. J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the important authors of modern literature, and The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are good examples for fantasy-epic. Although they were written in the 1950s they are like ancient epics, and contain various heroes. The Lord of the Rings, first written as a sequel to The Hobbit, later became a trilogy. In The Lord of the Rings, there is one main quest: the destruction of ‘The One Ring.’ Characters in the trilogy are either trying to prevent this quest or to aid it. There are many heroic characters and they act extraordinarily brave in some crucial moments even though most of them are not physically strong.

Key words: The Lord of the Rings, heroism, fantasy-epic, J.R.R. Tolkien

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Aviation English

Aslıhan Yetim(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Aviation English has been a language which is specifically used in aviation-related areas for years and years. As a matter of fact, English’s power as an international language has been felt for some reasons in aviation area. Furthermore, a particular degree of English proficiency has been demanded for those who want to be pilot and air traffic controller to prevent some problems which include probable threats because of miscommunication or non-proficient aviators. Thus, this presentation aims to have a brief looking at fatal consequences because of non-native aviators and also explain why English and aviation is related to each other. This study also includes personal background story concentrating on aviation itself.

Keywords: aviation, English language, international phenomenon

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Sales Assistants’ Perception of Language Competence: Ordu-Fidangör Case

Cansu Duyar(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

This study investigates the sales assistants’ perception of language competence in Ordu- Fidangör, which is a touristic attraction. Tourism is an important sector which helps to develop a country's economy, and today the tourism sector needs some necessities for sales assistants. These are personal characteristics, basic literacy and numeracy, selling skills, computer literacy, product knowledge, a knowledge of the law and other regulations, taking responsibility and initiative, other areas, including using the telephone, merchandising and housekeeping, and customer service skills. Customer service skills require communicating with people. There are new economic investment regulations in Ordu, which draws tourists from many investors in different countries. Today, those people are mostly Arabic, and this creates difficulties about communication with the tourists, so they need another language to communicate with the language they are most familiar with except their mother tongue. But, is the competency level of the language which they are familiar with sufficient enough? From this aspect, this study aims at identifying the perceptions of sales assistants’ language proficiency. This is a qualitative study, ant it will attempt to elicit purposively selected ten sales assistants' perceptions of foreign language competence at the most attractive place Fidangör, in Ordu. The findings will be analyzed through the content analysis.

Keywords: sales assistants, perception of language competence, ELF (English as Lingua Franca), trading skills

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An Investigation into Learning Strategies of Anxious EFL Learners

Yağmur Dönmez(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

A considerable number of foreign language learners suffer from language anxiety when they are exposed to learn a new language. Therefore, understanding the correlates of language anxiety is necessary. It has been noted that language anxiety is associated with use of language strategies, which play an important role in the overall language acquisition. Language learning strategies are specific actions which increase learners' awareness and make their learning easier. Learners’ strategy use can help learners in providing better language learning. To this end, this study aims at exploring the language learning strategies of EFL learners who have a high and a low degree of language anxiety. The study to be conducted at a north- eastern state university in Turkey will identify the anxiety level of language learners and investigate what language learning strategies they employ while they are learning English. In this regard, the data will be gathered through questionnaires and interviews. Both quantitative and qualitative data will be included to gather findings. Possible language learning strategies of EFL learners are examined. The findings of the study will be discussed.

Keywords: language anxiety, EFL learners, language learning strategies.

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How I Survived in America

Muhammet Emin Katlan(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

America is a multicultural country and has unlimited possibilities. No country seems more familiar than America because of the events, activities and natural attractions largely taking part in the world. In this presentation, I will talk about my 3-year experience in the USA and the observations I made during my stay there. Also, there will be some general information about the country’s culture and traditions. The main purpose of the presentation is to encourage my friends to experience the life in America and show how to survive and handle in all circumstances. Basically, this presentation provides different perspectives for every single individual to accept the country as a mixture of language, religion, race and its cultural values.

Keywords: America, language, culture, multiculturalism

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English as a Lingua Franca: ELF approach to pronunciation

Mihriban Kuş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

This presentation indicates the patterns of English as a Lingua Franca and also includes the question ‘What is Lingua Franca?’ In the second part; I will mention about the difference between accent and intelligibility. Everybody has accent which is just a combination of speech sounds that you characteristically made and it is flexible thing. On the other hand, intelligibility is a combination of two people involved interaction which include speaker and listener. According to Jenkins (2007) each person has the responsibility of being understood and each must make an effort to understand. English language teaching industry has taken a more native speaker oriented approach and assumes that people using English as a second language are learning it. In order to similar or integrate within a native speaking community and that simply may not be the case certainly statistically it is unlikely to be the case nowadays. So it is just about teaching students to handle the English language as it really is. As it is used all around the world regardless of where you are, what is important is who are speaking to whom.

Keywords: Elf, pronunciation, accent, intelligibility

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Plagiarism in Academic World: The Ways and Reasons

Hacer Taş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Plagiarism has been the oldest problematic factor in the academic world since the ancient times. Thanks to technology, it has become much easier to plagiarise than it was in the past. From Elementary School to universities, this academic dishonesty is a serious problem that should be dealt with. Although there are hundreds of plagiarism checkers, it could not be still stopped and, in fact, spreads like bacteria. When some of the students are not aware of doing plagiarism, some of them even do not know anything about plagiarism but mostly, the students’ use ideas, words or works of others intentionally because of many reasons such as taking high marks or laziness. Also, they use many ways to present the ideas as their own. These ways make them different from the other plagiarists. In this presentation, the ways and some reasons for plagiarism will be handled. The main purpose of this presentation is to raise awareness of plagiarism and thus, both students and teachers can find a way or solution to avoid and cope with plagiarism by revealing its ways and reasons.

Keywords: plagiarism, technology, students, the ways, the reasons

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Analyzing Idioms and Their Frequencies in Two Textbooks: A Corpus-Based Study

Aysun Altun(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

The present study aimed at identifying and quantifying the idioms used in New Headway and Upstream textbooks based on two different English corpora; New Headway corpus, Upstream corpus and comparing the frequencies of the idioms across the two corpora. The first step of the study involved searching the books to find multi-word idiomatic expressions used in each. Idioms matching criteria for idiomaticity were selected and searched in the two online corpora to find their frequency of occurrence. Chi-square tests were, then, run to discover whether there were significant differences among the frequencies of occurrence of each idiom across each corpus. Having the number of idioms in each textbook, two other chi-square tests will then be run, the first aiming at finding out if there are any significant differences among the two books in terms of idiom types and the second, to compare their tokens. According to results, it whether there is any different in books in terms of both number and type of idioms will be stated based on the data gathered so far.

Keywords: idioms, online corpora, frequency

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A Research on Students’ Experiences withCorpus Use in Foreign Language Academic Writing Class at Karadeniz Technical University

Furkan KaraBetül Tuğçe Mert

(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

An increasing number of recent studies have applied the insights and methodologies of corpus linguistics to second language (L2) writing pedagogy and research. Previous learner corpus studies have illuminated various kind of tendencies observed in a highly theoretical understanding of corpus use in L2 writing, but still leave gaps about the practical application for L2 writing teachers. The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of students’ writing experiences with corpus use, how it affects their development of L2 competence, and most importantly, how corpus technology can be integrated into L2 writing instruction at Karadeniz Technical University. Subjects of this study are consisted of 1st grade academic writing students. This research involved techniques such as classroom observations, open-ended interview. During the classroom observations the student writers who are also the subjects of the study were given various argumentative topics and the related corpus and they were asked to complete their essays by referring to the corpus prepared for their use. Open ended interviews were prepared but not yet delivered to the students.

Keywords: corpus, academic writing, EFL students

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Hedging in Academic Writing: Turkish EFL Learners’ Use of Hedging in their Academic Essays

Ferhan Ertürk(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

It is an undeniable fact that people need to show their stance towards a particular subject or that they need to strengthen or weaken the meaning in their essays at times necessary. Today, cautious language or specifically hedging is recognised as an important feature in academic writing. This study tries to investigate the use of hedges in academic essays of tertiary level EFL learners. Essays written by EFL learners were analysed through the taxonomy of different hedges presented by Salager-Meyer (1994). This study presents a quantitative corpus-based comparative study of hedges in Turkish EFL learners’ writings. For this purpose, Karadeniz Technical University Corpus of Academic Learner English (KTUCALE) and the Turkish International Corpus of Learner English (TICLE) were used as a non-native corpora and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS) was used as a reference corpus. Specifically, this study aimed: 1) to determine how often the EFL students use hedges in their academic writings. 2) to examine what hedges they mostly use. 3) to reveal whether there are overuse or underuse patterns between non-native and native students in terms of using hedges. Finally, preliminary findings seem to suggest that there are significant overuse and some underuse patterns in terms of using hedges in all corpora.

Keywords: hedging, academic writing, Turkish EFL learners, native students, corpus, comparative study.

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The Difficulties that Turkish People Have with the Pronunciation of English

Kadir Hakan Gül(Supervisor: Lec. Saye Zibande)

The main purpose of the study is to determine the most commonly mispronounced words by Turkish EFL learners and the estimated reasons for the errors. The survey is mainly focused on this question “What are the phonetic differences between Turkish and English?” In addition, the study includes differences Turkish and English phonetically and how this results with Turkish student when they try to speak English. The background of the study includes the examination of English Phonetics and Turkish Phonetic and detailed analysis of different surveys which they are supporting the topic. The survey is illustration of the difficulties with the examples of specific words and comparison of vowels and consonants that Turkish learners have trouble with them. The presentation is going to show the difficulties of English Phonetics when Turkish Students try to speak English.

Keywords: pronunciation, Turkish EFL, phonetic comparison, phonetic difficulties

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Reading Strategies

Asuman Dilbaz (Supervisor: Lec. Saye Zibande)

Considering the ways of reading, teachers and learners should use the strategies for their comprehension, sequential perception, identification of the elements of the text, and etc. Alyousef (2006) explains that reading can be accepted as an ‘‘interactive’’ process that is between a reader and a text. However, reading is a process that helps the learners reading fluency or automaticity. ‘‘The National Reading Panel (2000) specifies that the use of explicit and systematic classroom reading instruction must include comprehension strategies to be considered best practice’’ (Zascavage et al., 2012, p.176). The purpose of this study is to investigate reading strategies which have significant importance to improve learners’ reading comprehension. Finally, there are several reading strategies that can be used by teachers and students; however, the use of strategies depends on the purpose of reading. The subtitles of this study are: reading, teaching reading, the definition and importance of reading strategies, reading strategies, and classification of reading strategies.

Keywords: reading, teaching reading, reading strategies

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Evaluating the Cornerstones of Language Education: Course Books

Elif Şimşek(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

Cross-cultural interaction occurs as a result of geographical positions and negotiations of countries. As a part of the culture, the language takes place in society over time. Since the Ottoman period, English has been taught as a foreign language in schools. The materials used in the English language teaching have an important role for shaping the frame of learning process. Among them course books used for English Language Teaching (ELT) provide learners the necessary information and various skills related to curriculum in one book. Teachers must take into consideration some criteria while selecting the course book for their students. Teaching materials evaluation and adaptation studies reveal that course books must pass through the evaluation process to become available to learners and increase the quality of education, and in this sense various checklists are generated for evaluation. This seminar will focus on the nature of course books, its roles, and ways to evaluate it.

Keywords: course books, evaluation, checklist, teachers, English

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A Brief Overview of Widespread Phenomenon: Academic Procrastination

Tuğçe Uzun(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

Academic procrastination can be defined as the subspecies of the procrastination that is postponing some academic tasks associated with some reasons. It is a very common behaviour among university students, and this harms them academically. A number of studies have been conducted to investigate this behaviour and its reasons. As a result of these studies, many reasons and variables that explain procrastination were found. Generally, fear of failure and laziness were found as main reasons for academic procrastination in most of the studies. Considering the results of academic procrastination findings generally report that this behaviour affects students negatively. To reducing students’ academic procrastination, researchers offered many suggestions. This current seminar will inform the interested audience about the nature of procrastination, reasons for academic procrastination, and possible solutions to discourage students to procrastinate.

Key words: Academic procrastination, procrastinate, fear of failure, laziness

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A Slice of Teacher Written Feedback: The Heartbeat of Writing Instruction

Eren Kaya(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

The writing instruction has for long been a fundamental part of English teaching in higher education especially in terms of giving guidance and support to learners in EFL context. Feedback, which has many definitions in the related literature, is used as “teacher written feedback”, “peer feedback”, “self-feedback”, just to name a few. Feedback can be conceptualized as information provided by an agent taking into consideration one’s work. It is an undeniable fact that feedback has a great contribution to the writing process. Thus, this seminar aims at informing the interested audience about the nature of written feedback, its importance, and the ways in which feedback strategies can vary in.

Keywords: feedback, written feedback, writing instruction, strategy, higher education, EFL

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The Academic Emotions Experienced by First and Fourth Class EFL Students at KTUDELL

Şeyda Nur Geylan(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

The aim of this study is how students feel during class. This study is an investigation that compares EFL first and fourth class students’ inner emotions defined as positive or negative emotions during class in KTU DELL. Nine emotions in total - enjoyment, hope, pride, anger, anxiety, shame, hopelessness, boredom and relief – in class will evaluated during part of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (AEQ) prepared by Pekrun, Goetz and Perry (2005). Males and females first and fourth class students of the English Language Literature Department of Karadeniz Technical University in the academic year of 2017-2018 will be investigated to find out probable differences of academic emotions between first and fourth class in class and in terms of class-level and gender.

Keywords: Academic emotions; class; class-level and gender; first and fourth class EFL students

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The Necessity Language Learning and Language Qualities in Touristic Sector

Esma Arican(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M.Kerem Kobul)

This study aims the role of expected language qualities and English language learning by employers and employees in a touristic area. English language learning has become an important issue. There is a general understanding that in workplace sectors developing language qualities are necessary. In a rapidly globalizing world, employment has been shown to be closely related with the English language. Learning a language and especially communication is important at the workplace. English is one of the important languages and it has a great role in all over the world. To this end, the study aims identifying the necessity of English language learning and language qualities of employers and employees on workplace. This will be a qualitative study in which purposively selected fifteen shop owners and fifteen employees at a touristic destination.

Keywords: learning language, touristic area, language qualities

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Brand Names and Language

Muhammet Aktop(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

Powerful brands are able to influence customers’ choices and decisions in the marketplace. Marketers desire to support consumers' attitudes of being in a close relationship with brands they market, and they always craft their communications using language that portrays brands as close partners with consumers. However, brands have not only positive effect but also negative effects on consumers' attitudes and behaviour. Effects on attitudes and perceptions will depend on the consumers' interactions with the brand. By using two main subtitle (Pronoun Use and Social Perception, Language and Consumer Behaviour), this study tries to find out the effects of language variations on consumers' attitudes towards brands. This study will be a qualitative research by using 120 participants.

Keywords: brands, consumer behaviour, pronouns use, social perception

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Comparative Analysis of the Signboards in England in Turkey and Their Possible Reflections towards the Culture-Specific Aspects of the Two Countries

Vildan Atıcı(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

The aim of this study deals with cultural differences in terms of signboards between Turkey and England, language and society, sociolinguistic, and Sapir-Whorfian Hypothesis. The conflict and purpose of the study is to define specific elements depending on culture of both countries. Language is one of the vital points for all cultures and acculturation. Specific details about language are going to be included in this thesis. In addition, the written language on signboards between Turkey and England will be compared. During the study, different areas of Turkey and England are examined and various documents and photographs are obtained. The results are compared and contrasted in terms of cultural features. The data give clues about the nations, language and cultural varieties, theorized by Sapir Whorf. The findings are juxtaposed and analyzed. The results of the relation between language and culture are given.

Key words: language, language and culture, language and society, sociolinguistic, Edward Sapir Whorf

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A Corpus-based Study on the Use of ‘Make’ by Turkish EFL Learners

Nagahan Sümeyye Kocabaş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This study examines the lexical and grammatical use of a high frequency verb ‘make’ by Turkish EFL learners. Basis goals are to investigate whether Turkish learners of English use ‘make’ appropriately in their argumentative essays and to see to what extent L1 transfer plays a role in such usage and to what extent different learner groups from different L1s share common interlanguage features. Overuse, underuse and misuse of ‘make’ by learners and native speakers gathered by frequency calculations from native speakers’ and two learners’ corpora and comparison of them among each other constitute the quantitative backbone of the research. KTUCLE, Karadeniz Technical University Corpus of Learner English and LOCNESS, The Louvain Corpus of English Essays are used in this study.

Keywords: Learner Corpus, high frequency verbs in English, L1 Transfer

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The Effect of Learned Helplessness on EFL Learners’ Academic Achievement

Tuğçe Çağan(Supervisor: Lect. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

Recent evidence suggests that learned helplessness has become a major problem for EFL learners along with other educational environments. Accordingly, last few decades have witnessed a drastic increase on research on learned helplessness. Since a burgeoning body of experiments have shown that bearning is not only mental but also emotional, trust and sense of empathy gain more importance in this process. In this research, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between university students learned helplessness levels and its effect on academic achievement. The sample of the study will be EFL undergraduate students of Department of English Language and Literature in Karadeniz Technical University. The data will be collected by the learned helplessness scale which will be administered to the undergraduate EFL learners and the data will be analysed by SPSS version 23. Furthermore, the result will be discussed.

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Keywords: learned helplessness, academic achievement, individual differences

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Mobile Learning Readiness and Acceptance on EFL Undergraduate Students

Oğuzhan Yılmaz(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

Today, mobile learning is becoming increasingly widespread in the world, as people nowadays prefer to use mobile devices to look at electronic mail, access different sources of information, learn lesson notes and lesson schedules, or meet different needs. Work in the field of mobile learning first started in the early 2000s. Since then, interest in the effective use of mobile devices and technologies in education has increased in many countries around the world. This study mainly tries to survey The Readiness and Acceptance on EFL undergraduate students by investigating advantages and disadvantages of mobile learning. What is more, in this study, two questionnaires will be used among prep class students in KTU. To sum up, this study will be a scale for Mobile Learning Readiness and Acceptance on EFL undergraduate students in KTU.

Keywords: mobile learning, EFL students, readiness, acceptance, advantages, disadvantages

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Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety among Non-Native English Teachers

İrem Naz Saraçoğlu(Supervisor:Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

Common sense has it that non- native English teachers try to encourage their students about using L2 in language classrooms. However, it is a well-known fact that teachers have also anxiety or problems about using L2 smoothly; thus, they need to be encouraged by colleague or supervisor. There is a growing body of literature on language anxiety of EFL learners. However, there is dearth of studies examining teacher’s anxiety and nervousness. The key purpose of this study is to investigate foreign language teaching anxiety among non- native English teachers in Turkey. It also tries to explore the relationship between the level of anxiety and the duration of experience by shedding some light on some questions such as How to deal with anxiety? Which types of problems EFL teachers encounter? This study will measure anxiety of non – native English teachers using Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety Scale (FLTAS) that was developed by İpek (2006). The results will be further discussed.

Keywords: Anxiety, L2, EFL teachers, and FLTAS.

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Student’s Perceptions towards Teacher Feedback and Peer Feedback in their Writing: The Case of EFL Students at KTU

Hanife Öztürk(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Feedback is a significant tool in student’s writing, and it is highly used to revise their product as well as their processes. Generally, it is thought that teacher feedback is mostly used in both ESL and EFL classrooms. However, nowadays, peer feedback has gained a wider recognition even though the teacher feedback seems to occupy a dominant place. Therefore, there is need to understand the EFL students’ perceptions towards teacher and peer feedback in their writing. In this regard, the data will be gathered through questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire contains 38 questions and the qualitative data will be gathered through semi-structured interviews. Lastly, the quantitative data will be analysed using the SPSS 16.0. and the qualitative data will be analysed using the content analysis.

Keywords: perception, teacher feedback, peer feedback, writing, EFL students

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A Comparison between Teachers’ and EFL Students' Perceptions of Presentation Anxiety

Hande Yıldız(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Language anxiety is one of the most important concerns of the language learners. Considering the teachers’ aspect, anxiety also can influence on their teaching process. However, the students suffer from anxiety because of the anxiety-provoking nature of foreign language learning. Their primary concern about language anxiety is generally speaking situations because it is hard to express yourself in your own words spontaneously. That’s the reason why the language anxiety mostly comes from public speaking situations like presentation. The aim of this study is to identify differences in attitudes and the level of presentation anxiety on the basis of age, experience, and gender by comparing teachers’ and students’ perception of presentation anxiety. In this respect, 3rd-grade students, senior students, and a few instructors will contribute to my mixed method study which includes both questionnaire and interview respectively. After questionnaire results will be examined to what extent their level of anxiety will be identified and also the interviews will be made with the ones from each three levels. Besides, a few teachers will also contribute to interview with regard to their view of presentation anxiety. As a result, the result will be evaluated thanks to the analysis.

Keywords: language anxiety, presentation anxiety, perception, teachers, students

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The Relationship between Cultural Identity and the Degree of Pronunciation Anxiety

Firdevs Arslan(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Pronunciation anxiety is defined as ‘‘a feeling of apprehension experienced by FL [foreign language] learners either in the FL classroom or natural setting, deriving from negative FL pronunciation self-perceptions, fear of negative evaluation, and beliefs about the importance of pronunciation, difficulty in learning and the sound of the FL pronunciation’’ (Baran-Lucarz, 2014). Since early times, it has been a problem of Turkish EFL students to pronounce some words correctly from which derive pronunciation anxiety. The ‘‘affective filters’’ constructing this problem may be the age of learning the foreign language, instruction or motivation. There is a lack of research from the cultural identity standpoint. Therefore, the aim of the current study is to find out if there is a relationship between the cultural identity and the degree of pronunciation anxiety. This research will attempt to elicit the perceptions of learners who are studying English language and literature at a university in north-eastern Turkey. The students will be required to fill in a questionnaire and the results will be evaluated through the SPSS.

Keywords: pronunciation anxiety, cultural identity, affective filters, pronunciation self-perception

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Foreign Language Demand of Turkish Business World

Begüm Hazal Yıldırım(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

In today’s world, the globalization and the business world are constantly developing. People increasingly need foreign language skill to work more effectively in their own countries. The globalization of the business world has made it imperative for customers to communicate with their customers in order to market and sell services or commercial goods. The global market has to develop communication strategies while increasing demand and product diversity. This is why the expectations are increased from candidates who applying for work for foreign language knowledge. It is emphasized that the main purpose of this presentation is the importance of foreign language in business world and communication is an indispensable element in business life. In this study, it was also examined the language expectation ratios of the employees of various sectors and whether second foreign language is necessary or not.

Keywords: foreign language, communication, business, sector, employee

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Motivation, parental involvement and parental encouragement in learning English as a foreign language in pre-school period

Sinan Solmaz(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Parental involvement in English language learning was investigated by many researchers for many years. However, most of these studies generally focused on the primary and high-school students. Unlike the other studies, this seminar will mainly focus on the parental involvement and parental encouragement in pre-school students. Moreover, this study will explore the importance of establishing positive connections between homes and schools by taking advantages of data which will be collected by both school staff and parents. The data from the interviews will be shown in the following parts of this study. The results of this study will help us understanding the importance of parental effects on English language learning in pre-school period.

Keywords: parental involvement, motivation, parental encouragement, pre-school, EFL

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Burnout Level of Senior Students

Büşra Demir(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Burnout has been identified as a significant issue among university students. The purpose of this presentation was to identify and describe the level of burnout in senior university students. University experience is important in terms of academic and social development levels of the students. While they are in university, they may experience academic, personal-social adjustment problems, gaining new opportunities and experiences for growth, maturation, change and development. From this point of view, the difficulties experienced during the university years can affect the performance and functions of students at different levels. Given that students may have limited resources for coping, particularly the level of academic cohesion may be affected by these difficulties. For this reason, it can be said that university students have to cope with many environmental and personal difficulties during their academic life. One of the main problems senior students have to deal with is feelings of exhaustion. The sense of burnout was measured by Maslach and Johnson (1981); emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment, and most of the study on this subject are concentrated in the service, such as health and education. In recent years, many studies have shown that burnout is a very common problem among senior university students; burnout levels of the students; (Boudreau, Santen, Hemphill & Dobson, 2004) with variables of perceived stress, too much homework, anxiety of grades, low life satisfaction, low self-control, uncertainty for the future; perceived workload, low social support, and negative personality traits. Creating awareness about making use of the leisure time well, making widespread and functional psychological services and counselling centers, arranging weekly course hours can be accepted as recommendation in dealing with burnout.

Keywords: academic burnout, senior students, reasons of burnout, dealing with burnout

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Diffıculties of English Foreign Language Learners in Translation

Hilal Sürmeneli(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This study was carried out to find out the difficulties of EFL learners in translation course. this study also attempted to put forward some possible solutions which help learners to overcome these problems. A questionnaire consisting 8 items was prepared to find out the problems of learners in translation. The findings of the study indicated that most students face with different problems such as failing to capture the complexities of the source text namely they should know the subject matter, whether cultural, historical, mythological, or technical and be able to transpose the ideas of the source text into the appropriate style and terminology of the target language. Therefore, special care should be given while translating such as selecting text, giving guidance on practical procedures before translation and motivating students.

Keywords: translation method, cultural interaction on translation.

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Cultural Adaptation of Erasmus+ Exchange Program

Serkan Türk(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

Student mobility in higher education has been increased in all Europe. Erasmus+ exchange program started in 1987 and Turkey joined in 2004. Karadeniz Technical University firstly hosted 3 Belgian students and sent 12 Turkish students to Belgium. Descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of the opinions of international students. This study aims to understand the participants’ adaptation process and challenges in Karadeniz Technical University. The sample of the study consists of 10 foreign students from 6 different nations. Qualitative research and analysis rules were used. In analyzing of the date, frequency, percentages and satisfaction degree were designed and analyzed by me. In conclusion students complained about host country’s people language proficiency but students were satisfied about culture and food on the other hand ESN (Erasmus Student Network) have made adaptation easier.

Keywords: Erasmus+ exchange program, satisfaction level, daily life, academic life, culture, international competence

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Corpus Based Error Correction Study on Turkish EFL Learners’ Relative, Noun and Adverbial Clause Problems

Büşranur Kuru(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

The main purpose of this study is to find out the problems of Turkish EFL learners’ relative, noun and adverb clauses. The use of the clauses is tone of the underlying structures of English language and EFL learners mostly have difficulty in understanding the essence of them through the learning process. Numerous studies have focused on the importance of this problem and this study attempts to state the error types that were analysed during this study and to seek the reasons of the clausal problems of Turkish EFL learners. In order to achieve this, KTUCLE and LOCNESS learner corpora is used as a data collection instrument. This study will be carried out during the fall and spring semesters of the 2017-2018 academic years. At the end of this study, what the learners have overlooked while using these clauses and the sources of the errors they have made will be evaluated and the results will be presented in detail.

Keywords: Corpus, error correction, relative clause, noun clause, adverb clause, Turkish EFL learners.

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Teaching Anxiety of Pre-service Teachers: Concerns and Solutions

Hümeyra Polat(Supervisor: Lec. Saye Zibande)

Pedagogical formation and teaching practice (practicum) are obligatory tasks for the pre-service teachers in education program. However, it is obvious that pre-service teachers have some concerns that depend on their future experiences. They have anxieties about teaching experience related to many different factors such as classroom environment, classroom management or teaching methods. In the line with this need, the purpose of this study is to invest the reasons of teaching anxiety and provide solutions from the point of pre-service teachers. Thus, assessing this, semi-structured interviews will be held with the pre-service teachers. The data that will be gathered from participants will be recorded and transcribed in detail. Then, the gathered data will be assessed.

Keywords: teaching anxiety, pre-service teachers, students, practicum

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Gender Differences in Using Language

Mehmet Kaan Aksu(Supervisor: Lec. Saye Zibande)

This study mainly focuses on differences in using language between genders. Various studies have been analyzed in order to comprehend these differences. One of the main differences was that in many societies a lot of pressure was put on men and women in regards to how they should speak. Men were expected to speak in a strong, manly, smart and impressive way. But on the other hand of the spectrum, women were expected to speak in a way that is soft, submissive and feminine. These prejudices are still continuing today even in the most developed countries. There are some societies that are trying to pass by these predetermined and forced thoughts on how a person speech should be affected by their sex. With the light of this study and many articles that have been examined throughout this research, the aim is to understand how and why these differences came to be.

Keywords: gender, language, men, women, speech

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Gratitude Expressions and Gender Differences EFL Learners

Hilal Ercenik(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This study examined the strategies employed by tertiary level EFL learners from different regions and countries while they are using gratitude expressions. With this purpose in mind, 400 samples which were chosen on a purposive sampling methodology from the various English Departments were asked to answer an open-ended Discourse Completion Task designed and by Bald and Einstein (1969) and adapted by the researchers based on the specific needs and conditions. It is very important to know how people from different regions perform gratitude in expression. Hence in this study, we have considered four goals. First of all, we analyzed the types of gratitude strategies employed by EFL learners. Secondly, we aimed describing the types of gratitude strategies used by EFL learners. Thirdly, we investigated a cross-linguistic study on expression of gratitude by native and non-native Turkish speakers. Finally, we aimed to reveal the types of gratitude strategies in terms of regional variations and gender differences. The preliminary findings indicated that tertiary level Turkish EFL learners used various strategies in L1 but these strategies remained relatively limited in English. The findings also indicate that the ways gratitude is expressed do not show a certain tendency for one specific region.

Keywords: pragmatics, speech act, speech act gratitude, EFL context

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Overuse of Discourse Markers in Turkish Learners’ (EFL) And Native Learners’ Writing: The Case of ‘I Think’ and ‘In My Opinion’

Gizem Dere(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay )

Discourse markers (I mean, you know, I think, kind of, sort of, well, you see, so) are mostly used both in spoken and writing skills by learner, especially, in second language acquisition process. And learners, sometimes, may overuse or underuse in their writing skills in comparison with native speakers. This study examines contrast of using of the pragmatic markers in the written text of Turkish English as foreign language (EFL) learners and of native. The focus of the comparison was the frequency of the phrases ‘I think’ and ‘in my opinion’. The important point of investigate that whether or not learners overuse or underuse such features when compared to native speakers. The analysis was done by comparing two argumentative academic corpora, KTUCLE (Karadeniz Technical University Corpus of Learner English) and LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays). To contrast to two corpora is statistically significant ın order to measure overuse or underuse of discourse markers in academic corpora and to determine whether the possible differences. The results indicated that Turkish Learners (EFL), tend to much more using of discourse markers in their writing skills in comparison with native learners.

Keywords: discourse markers, corpus, Turkish learners (EFL), native learners

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My Erasmus Experience and Observations in Poland

Mehmet Ali Kavak(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

The idea of studying abroad and leaving country borders is getting easier and more reachable in the world of 21st century in which English language is not specific to the countries that do not speak English. The increasing interest in study abroad directs students to apply for programs such as Erasmus and Mevlana to participate. This market is growing excessively in Turkey and the other European countries, and, for this reason, it is an encouragement and a chance for students to prove themselves around the world. Erasmus is a golden opportunity because it allows students to progress in many fields. I am one of those students. The purpose of this study is to ensure that the participants have a positive attitude towards Erasmus and Poland. In this study, I will mention about my Erasmus experience in Poland and the observations I made during my stay there. Also, there will be some general information about the country’s culture and traditions. Some materials will be used from my Erasmus archive.

Keywords: Erasmus, Poland, experience, observation, interest

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The Difference between Active and Passive Procrastination

Ömer Küçükkaya(Supervisor: Asst.Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

All people in the world have some responsibilities, duties, tasks and they divided into two parts those who do, non-procrastinators, and those who do not, procrastinators. Firstly, non-procrastinators are well-organized, gradually increase the pace of work and have no problem, at least not so much problem, at the deadline. Second, procrastinators put off their duties till the last minute constantly. Basically procrastination means delaying, putting off the task needlessly but in the recent years, the term “active procrastination” is gained to the literature. Those who are called active, do this behaviour for a reason while the passive procrastinators just put off needlessly. Active procrastinators and the passive procrastinators differ in some points. The purpose of this presentation is to show the difference between active and passive procrastination. For example, sometimes active procrastinators need to feel time pressure. They think that they might be more productive under the time pressure. This is one of the reasons why they procrastinate.

Keywords: procrastination, procrastinator, non-procrastinator, active, passive

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How to develop Emotional Intelligence

Filiz Güler(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others recognize between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behaviour, and manage and adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one's goals. Emotional Intelligence is absolutely essential in the formation, development, maintenance, and enhancement of close personal relationships. According to Goleman (1995), emotional intelligence ranges across four different areas of personal ability: Self-awareness, self-management, empathy and social awareness and relationship management. Unlike IQ, which does not change significantly over a lifetime, our EQ can evolve and increase with our desire to learn and grow. In that point, I try to explain the effects of Emotional Intelligence on us and how we can develop it.

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, IQ, EQ, empathy, emotion, emotional knowledge

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The Use of Adverbial Connectors in Academic Writings of Native Speakers of English and EFL Students

Aleyna Yılmaz Pektaş (Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

It is well-known fact that one of the most problematic issues on academic writings is the use of adverbials. The problem of the use of adverbial connectors both in native students' academic writings and in non-native students' academic writings has been investigated through many studies by now. This paper includes previous findings about the use of adverbial. To this end, this study aims to investigate and to make comparison between native speakers of English and EFL students in terms of adverbial usage in academic writings. This is a corpus study and the data studied were taken from British Academic Written English (BAWE) and KTUCALE. All data were examined by using the free web programme "Sketch Engine." I studied on frequently used adverbials and I will clarify my findings in detail in the following parts of the study.

Keywords: adverbials, academic writing, EFL students, native speakers, corpus, BAWE, KTUCALE

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A Corpus Based Study on L2 English Hypothetical Conditionals

Dilek Cankur(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

Since 1980’s, the basic idea behind language performance and meaning which was primarily based on native speaker’s intuition has been shifted from introspection to focus on linguistics. Thus, so as to answer complex questions of language teaching and learning, systematic investigation of language occurrence was emphasized in linguistics. For this reason, corpus linguistics which enables L2 learners an important tool for the comprehension of natural language has become very popular for a long time. Besides, hypothetical conditional sentences formed by using conditional (if) that Turkish L2 learners of English frequently encounter as one of the particular kind of grammatical complexities is cooperated with a corpus based study. Therefore, this research should be understood as an attempt to reveal how possible effects of interlanguage impact on Turkish students’ over or underuse of hypothetical conditional clauses in their argumentative essays and whether advanced Turkish EFL learners use Type 2 and 3 if conditional statements implying to hypothetical conditionals in the same meaning as they appear among native speakers of American University students. This survey was conducted on EFL Turkish students’ argumentative essays collected in Karadeniz Technical University in Trabzon. The data were gathered in the light of three corpora: Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS), Turkish International Corpus of Learner English (TICLE), Karadeniz Technical University Corpus of Learner English (KTUCLE). The findings of the research will be presented in KTUDELL Student Conference.

Keywords: Hypothetical Conditionals, Corpus Linguistics, LOCNESS, TICLE, KTUCLE

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Roles of Quantifiers in Argumentative Writing and Classroom Activities in Corpus-Based Approaches

Hanife Yalçın(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This research identifies the high frequencies of quantifiers in argumentative writing, which is a popular mode in English proficiency tests, by keyword analyses and reveals their roles as rhetorical devices in argumentation by focusing on particular collocation in actual contexts. This study advocates a classroom activity of quantifiers by a concordance, suggesting the importance of contextualization, and argues for argumentative writing from KTUCLE, Karadeniz Technical University Corpus of Learner English and LOCNESS, The Louvain Corpus of English Essays, not only for test preparation but also for familiarity with argumentation through reading.

Keywords: quantifiers, adjectival keywords, argumentative writing, classroom activities, second language writing, learner corpora

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How Students choose a University?

Orkun Oygur(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Students have important decisions in their life, choosing a university is one of these decisions. Universities are affecting students from many ways, some universities can be a good reference for students’ future career, and however, these universities may be costly for students. Some universities are helping students’ personal growth; however, their parents may not approve the students’ university choice, because of the universities location. So, many reasons have an influence on university choice. Many experts study about choosing university and process of that choice and its reasons. This presentation aims to show the reasons of students to choose a university and which reasons are important to choose a university, which stages are important for students on process of choice.

Keywords: university choice, higher education, parents’ role

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Causes and Impacts of Absenteeism among University Students

Yağmur Küçükbekir(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

Swords and shields were essential to be powerful in the past. As time has passed, the concept of power became more interested in university degrees. It would not be wrong to consider today’s university degrees as past’s swords. A degree is not enough to survive for it must include a high GPA. There are many factors to achieve a good degree and also to fail at university. Absenteeism is one these factors which mostly brings forth failure. It is rare that a student attends all classes and fails them. What must be sought behind failure is absenteeism. It is an academic epidemic that should be overcome. Therefore, the aim of this presentation is to illustrate causes and impacts of absenteeism among university students.

Keywords: absenteeism, university degree, success, causes, impacts

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Digital-Game Based Language Learning

Ahmet Tolga Abdal(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Öznur Semiz)

For the past 30 years, technology has developed substantially. Computer, mobile devices and many more are now becoming major parts of our lives. With those devices, a new way of playing games did come to our lives: “Digital Games”. At first, many people claimed that such games have no benefits; they are just here to poison our children’s mind. However, researches show that people can actually learn language easily from them. In this presentation, the audience is going to see from what the digital games are to the consequence of learning from them. What are the benefits; are they really helping learning language; is digital-game based learning effective; which games are the best to play while learning? These are some of the main questions that need to be asked and will be answered via this presentation.

Keywords: games, technology, computers, language learning

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The Conflict between Individual and Society in George Eliot’s Silas Marner

Kübra Akar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My seminar is about Silas Marner by George Eliot. I will first introduce the writer, George Eliot, focusing on her life and literary works. In the second part, I will try to show how her works have been read throughout the years by critics, and what themes are generally present in her novels. Then, I will introduce Eliot’s novel Silas Marner and the possible questions in this novel that I can analyse in my graduation thesis project. Eliot in this novel focuses on the conflict between the protagonist Silas Marner and the society in which he lives.

Keywords: indıvidual, society, conflict, Silas Marner, George Eliot

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Computer Adaptive Testing on Determining Students’ Level of Language

Ramazan Sağlam(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Rapidly advancing computer technologies have been improving the field of education by bringing out more advanced, time efficient and more practice tools, for many areas within the educational field including new materials and tools for testing and assessment. Through this advancement, Computer Adaptive Testing(CAT) methods have emerged to meet the needs for more advanced testing materials. Being used widely now, it is found to be one of the most efficient tools for testing and assessing students’ level of language by serving more equal and accurate questions to test takers. The aim of this study is to find out the efficiency of CAT, to stress test the potential of it, and to push its limits by testing new features on it and comparing it with the conventional pen and paper tests. To achieve the goals of this project, a new set of methods and tactics are added into the project using standard CAT technique to achieve and observe in more details to include more possibilities about CAT. The work presented here has profound implications for more studies in the future about testing and assessment.

Keywords: computer adaptive testing, assessment, students, language

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The Use of L1 in L2 Classes: Students’ and Teachers’ Perspectives

Leyla Ömeroğlu(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

In line with a rapidly globalizing world, we have witnessed a pressing need for foreign language education in each passing day. Not surprisingly, the needs, wants and resources of learners in teaching and learning a foreign language were shaped by the prevalent changes. One contentious issue has been the role of the first language foreign or a second language instruction. From this perspective, this study will analyze the use of mother tongue, first language or native language/tongue in the English language learning, or, to put it differently, in the L2 classrooms. The aim of this study is to find why and where foreign language teachers use L1 and what students’ and teachers’ points of view about this usage are. Using the survey method, the study will attempt to investigate to what extent and in which particular conditions learners and teachers welcome the use of L1.

Keywords: L1, L2, EFL classrooms, use of L1, foreign language

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Why Am I anxious During Listening: Anxiety in Second Language?

Fatmanur Ertan(Supervisor: Lec. Saye Zibande)

Second language learning has a crucial role nowadays. This reveals a kind of results such as second or foreign language anxiety. Especially, students are suffered from communication apprehension; speaking and listening anxiety. To this end, aim of this research is to explore causes of students’ listening anxiety and how it can be decreased. A significance of this study is that besides of well-ordered as a title, this study is one of the restricted researches about listening anxiety in Turkey. There are various suggestions to cope with listening apprehension in this study.

Keywords: foreign language anxiety, listening anxiety, causes, coping, second language

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A Corpus-Based Study on the Use of Adverbs in Academic Vocabulary by Academic Authors

Yeliz Zambak(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

There is an expanding interest in the investigation of interlanguage developmental levels of EFL learners. The main purpose of these investigations is to describe the second and foreign language acquisition and its process. If two different interlanguages are compared, it can be seen that non- native features belong to one language group and a lot of learner populations share these features. The learners' acquisition series can be understandable along various stages of language learning thanks to the Corpus- based Interlanguage Analysis (CIA) (Cobb, 2003). In these stages, native learners and non- native speakers' competence level is the primary and significant element. The aim of this study is to investigate the use of adverbs in academic vocabulary by native English and non- native English (Turkish) academic authors. The methodology is based on the analysis of two corpora as KTUCALE and BAWE (British Academic Written English). The results will be evaluated using the quantitative analysis. The quantitative analysis depends on frequency calculations and comparisons among two corpora (via Sketch engine and log-likelihood value).

Keywords: corpus- based, interlanguage, adverbs, academic vocabulary, academic authors

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A Case Study in Corpus Analysis: 15 July Coup Attempt in Turkey

İrfan Kankul(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

The aim of this study is to examine the corpus analysis of three leading American and two leading Turkish newspapers about the coup attempt on 15 July 2016 in Turkey. The New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post have been selected as the American newspapers whose corpora were analysed from the news published between 16 July and 16 August. Similarly, the corpora of two Turkish newspapers (Dailysabah, Dailynews) have been extracted from the first month after the failed coup attempt. This study details the corpora under 6 categories: top 10 roper nouns, nouns, verbs, adjectives, attributive adjectives (about Fetullah Gülen) and adverbials mentioned in both American and Turkish newspapers. The data have been gathered from 100 Turkish and 54 American news and the user-friendly software application named Sketch Engine has been used in the collection of data. Sketch Engine is a corpus manager and analysis software developed by Lexical Computing Limited since 2003. Its purpose is to enable people studying language behaviour to search large text collections according to complex and linguistically motivated queries. The most important benefit of sketch engine in this current study was to allow me to separate the genres of vocabularies and put them into different tables that provide to compare and contrast the data gathered from the newspapers. The final purpose of the study is to discover the most logical reasons for the similarities and the difference between word selection of the American and Turkish newspapers analysing the tables obtained from the corpus analysis.

Keywords: corpus, failed coup, coup attempt, 15 July, newspapers

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A nutshell review of higher education: Master and doctoral degrees

Selma Yılmaz(Supervisor: Inst. Dr.Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

Higher education in a large spectrum of contexts across the world play crucial role in society, education as well as in scientific community, for it contributes academic research, culture, manpower, critical approach, productivity, creativity, and economy. Higher education serves these purposes with undergraduate, bachelors of art, master of art, and philosophy of doctorate programs in a large variety of branches. When the point in question is graduate education, it is seen that it was practiced in the form of master-apprentice relationship until 1981s, by operation of Higher Education Law (No: 2547) a double-stage education process, namely MA and PhD, has been in force within the body of universities. Due to the importance of graduate education, this seminar aims at informing the audience about a snapshot of higher education and structure of graduate education with its concise historical background and requirements in Turkey.

Keywords: graduate study, MA degree, PhD degree, university

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The new transition system to secondary education (LKS) with two alternatives: ‘Suffering’ future under ‘Recurring’ system?

Ebru Kara(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

For many years, education has emerged in parallel with human being requirements and thus become a pioneering process on social development. Education in Turkey has a long history both before and after the Republic, and it is based on Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's principles and revolutions. This development has created a system of testing and measurement that includes a variety of types, and is applied to different levels of education in Turkey. With the compulsory primary school education started in 1869, the system of transition to secondary education has been shaped. The state-controlled examination system has been carried out since 2000 by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE). The transition system for secondary education has been revised many times, and the recent system, Transition from Primary to Secondary Education (TEOG), has currently been changed to Liselere Kayıt Sistemi (LKS), and thus recently this under-researched area has started to become a popular topic for researchers. For this purpose, this seminar will deal with the development of history of education in Turkey, the types of testing, and currently revised LKS.

Keywords: history of education system, testing, measurement

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The Same System, a New Name: A Snapshot of the New University Entrance Exam (YKS)

Burak Ayan(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

University entrance system in Turkey has been officially started since 1960s. Before that time some universities used to carry out their own entrance exam and choose their students according to the results, but in time increasing population and demands changed and universities could not satisfy the students’ demands because there were much more candidates than quota each university determines. Thus, as a solution universities introduced a common exam for all candidates. This system was to reduce the number of the candidates, but over the years high school curriculum has been revised, and the university entrance exam was adapted to these new revisions. For this purpose, this seminar will inform the audience about the currently revised university entrance exam, namely Yükseköğrenim Kurumları Sınavı (YKS), in comparison with the earlier higher-stakes tests at higher education level.

Keywords: university, exam, YKS, candidate, curriculum, system.

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Introspective Observation of EFL Learners as Evidenced in Their Translation Studies

Kiraz Salman(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This study aims to analyze tertiary level EFL learners’ translation errors and actual translation practices in terms of lexical and grammatical levels, to understand their perceptions of translation universals and find out the difficulties EFL learners face while translating. This study also attempts to put forward some possible solutions in order to help tertiary level EFL learners to overcome these grammatical and lexical problems in their translations. The results show that tertiary level EFL learners displayed problems in both lexical and grammatical levels and the majority of these problems may be attributed to L1 transfers. On the other hand, findings also indicated that Turkish EFL learners presented more lexical problems than the grammatical ones and part of these problems can be attributed to the lack of lexical competence.

Keywords: EFL learners, translation, lexical problems

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Attitudes of L2 Learners' toward Code-Switching

Tansu Lokumcu(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M.Kerem Kobul)

Code-switching, the alternating use two or more language in the same discourse has become an interesting topical and field of research. The facilitative and debilitative role of code-switching in the EFL classroom is context of debate. The goal of this study is to investigate if code-switching is beneficial language strategy facilitating learners' language development and to discover the facilitative and debilitative role of code-switching in the EFL classroom from the perspectives of students.

Key words: code-switching, language development, facilitative and debilitative role in the classroom

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Foreign Language Reading Anxiety

S. Tuğba Bayırol(Supervisor: Lec. Dr. M. Kerem Kobul)

Anxiety has a significant role in reading a foreign language. This study was designed to investigate the foreign language anxiety of Turkish EFL students learning as a foreign language in their department. The purpose of the research was to investigate to how Turkish EFL students experience foreign language reading anxiety. The research was carried out with 300 participants in Karadeniz Technical University, English Language and Literature Department. Turkish version of one scale was used in this study. This is; Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) which was designed to measure Foreign Language reading anxiety of the students. This scale was translated from English to Turkish because this scale did not have a Turkish version. This anxiety instrument, Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale (FLRAS) created by Saitoet al.,1999).

Keywords: anxiety, Foreign Language Reading Anxiety Scale, and EFL students

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A Comparative Research on Impact of Erasmus Exchange Program on Students’ Personal Development: Does Erasmus Affect Turkish or European Students Most?

Yasemin Demir(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

We are living in a world where the importance of personal quality is valuable as much as knowledge. The purpose of this report is to investigate the benefits of Erasmus exchange program on Turkish Erasmus students’ and European Erasmus students’ personal growth and to find out the most developed benefit on students and do a comparison between European and Turkish students. I categorized gains on personal development of studying abroad programmes into three subthemes; grasp of culture, maturity, change on worldview and interpersonal competences. Although there are numerous Turkish studies conducted in this field, there is no any Turkish study which focuses on personal growth with subthemes grasp of culture, maturity and change on worldview and interpersonal competences. Students from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of English Language and Literature who experienced Erasmus exchange program before and random European students who experienced Erasmus exchange program before will be compared by using 5 questions of open-ended and 5 close-ended questionnaire. The data from the students will be analysed with SPSS program and technique of interview analyse.

Keywords: maturity, culture, Erasmus, perspective, development, exchange, culture shock, European

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Evaluation of Initial Teacher Training's Efficiency according to Students' Views 

Halil Samet Yılmaz(Supervisor: Asst.Prof Ali Şükrü Özbay)

Initial teacher training is based 1910s in Turkey. This program educates the teacher candidates. Initial teacher training has rules and candidates must obey this rules otherwise they cannot get certificate which necessary to be a teacher but students have some problems with initial teacher training and this research aims to determine their problems and gather information about their satisfaction level about this program. There is no research previously executed in this topic. 5 students help to researcher and interview carried out. The data from the interviews will be recorded and transcribed verbatim. Finally, the results will be evaluated using the content analysis.

Keywords: initial teacher training, efficient, inefficient, satisfaction level, advantages, disadvantages

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Integrating Literature into Language Instruction: Let Shakespeare Be Your Teacher!

Ömer Alptuğ Doğan(Supervisor: Inst. Dr. Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya)

Approaches and methods over language teaching have changed many times in years. From 19th century to 1960’s, literary elements were used in language instruction. Grammar translation method was the dominant pedagogy in language classes which allows lecturers to use literary content in their language classes in a simple way. In time, with the arrival of constructivist approach the importance of GTM has decrease, thereby reducing the popularity of integrating literature into language education till 1980’s. However, after 80’s, many studies demonstrated that integrating literature into curriculum of language teaching has many benefits for foreign language learners. Thus, this seminar will inform the audience about the nature of integrating literature into instruction, its benefits and possible risks, and the things practitioners should pay attention to in this integration.

Keywords: literature, language, education, integration, language development

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Emotional Intelligence

Gülden Öztürk(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

This presentation is about emotional intelligence. The topic is one of the most interesting topics about human intelligence and behaviours during the last decade. Emotional intelligence is in the concept of social intelligence. Goleman found that an individual’s success is only 20% dependent on IQ abilities which constitute emotional intelligence. It is thought that IQ and EQ are different from each other. He also suggests five major parts of it: self-awareness, self-management, motivation, empathy and social skills. In addition, there are several factors which help people to develop emotional intelligence: family and environment. People who have emotional intelligence have several certain characteristics: being sensitive, distinguishing between happiness, sadness, love, hate and other emotions. Lastly, the emotional intelligence affects learners' education lives. The aim of schools is to help learners increase their intelligence; however, it seems that schools seem to prioritize IQ rather than EQ. In this presentation, I will touch upon my experiences regarding my own journey of intelligences.

Keywords: emotional intelligence, IQ, motivation, empathy, self-awareness, self-management, social skills, education

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Teacher’s Attitudes towards the Use of Creative Drama in ELT

Beyza Karagüzel(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Imaginations, feelings and creativity can be expressed by creative drama in English language teaching for students. In this way, students can develop multiple intelligences, communication skills and self-expressions. However, to what extent learners integrate drama into their classes is yet to be fully explored. To this end, this study attempts to collect the perceptions of teachers’ towards to integration of drama in English language teaching. There are numerous methods that can be used in drama in language education. Findings from the semi-structured interviews will be analyzed through the content analysis.

Keywords: Creative Drama, drama techniques, teacher’s attitudes, Trabzon

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Foreign Language Anxiety across Different Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

Zübeyde Travaç(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

For many years, foreign language anxiety has been investigated as a unique construct. But language consists of four language skills. Therefore, there seems to be a need to approach the investigation of language skills specifically. Foreign language anxiety has usually been to be negatively associated with the performance of learners in language skills. Therefore, it is considered to be a major obstacle in developing a foreign language. This problem is directly related with different language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, which are indispensable for foreign language performance. To this end, the present study will investigate EFL learners’ foreign language anxiety in across different skills. The purpose of this study is to find out the sources of FL anxiety experienced in four language skills, the level of EFL learners’ language anxiety and the most/least anxiety provoking skill/s. In this sense, in order to collect data FLCAS (with 33 items) will be used for language skills separately. The SPSS 16.0 will be used in order to analyze the data. Also, semi-structured interviews will be carried out with students. Finally, the results will be evaluated.

Keywords: foreign language anxiety, listening anxiety, speaking anxiety, reading anxiety, writing anxiety, EFL learners.

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Munich – “My Hometown”

Gözde Şirin Arslan(Supervisor: Inst. Hasan Sağlamel)

Munich, originally “Munichen” meaning “by the monks”, derived from Old High German, is the capital of the German state of Upper Bavaria. It lays between the river Isar and the Bavarian Alps. It is the most populated and the third largest city in Germany with a population of round 1.5 million. Munich is a great centre of art, technology, culture, education, tourism, etc. in Germany and maybe also in Europe. At the same time, it provides a very high standard and full quality life style. In this city, many universities, theatres and museums are located. Munich’s wonderful architecture, the traditional Oktoberfest and Frühlingsfest catch the attraction of many tourists. It is one of the richest and fastest growing cities in Europe. Munich is also home to some major industries like BMW, Siemens, MAN, Allianz, etc. During the World War II, the city received a lot of bombs and almost half of its historic architecture was destroyed. Compared to other German cities which were also bombarded, Munich’s traditional architecture was restored. In the 1980s, Munich came to strong economy, growth in high-technology, scientific institutions and a major population. This presentation aims to give information about the wonderful city: Munich. It also includes some information about the presenter’s memories and impeccable experiences which make it a must-see destination.

Keywords: Munich, Bavaria, Germany, hometown, culture, history, technology

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Corpus Analysis of Verbs of Perception in Native (Locness) and Non- Native (Ticle) Corpora

Ecem Pehlivan(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

This linguistic study mainly aims to compare and contrast the verbs of perception by the learners of the English in a tertiary level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting in native (Locness) and non- native (Ticle) corpora. Corpus function in SLA and ELT will be given in the literature review chapter. Consciousness of using Corpus in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Foreign Language Teaching (ELT) is one of the most important techniques. By using corpus, one gets a chance to retain the universal usages of verbs of perception with the help of the authentic texts with lots of concordances which is provided by corpus itself. Therefore, we are able to see the usages of verbs of perception in different forms. To that end, a corpus based methodology will be presented in this linguistic study. The conclusions will be given in the data analysis and result section. The conclusions indicate that Locness (native) corpus involves lots of usages of verbs of perception compares to those of Ticle (non- native), which involves comparatively a few of perception verbs.

Keywords: corpus, verbs of perception, Locness, Ticle, SLA, EFL, ELT

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Lexical Bundles in Research Article: Corpus

Seda Sincer(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

Lexical bundles are parts of the major points in writing for academic purposes. Particularly, crosslinguistic analysis of lexical bundles in different country and cultures provides that we distinguish some features among them. Therefore, the present study aims to explore the use of lexical bundles among United States, England and Turkey. The purpose of the study is analysed the four-word lexical bundles among these country and is also featured their differences and similarities. For example, lexical bundles in research articles acknowledgments can differ from one country to another. One million word corpus was designed with the help of Sketch Engine that is a corpus tool and divided into two parts that lexical bundles were classified structurally and functionally. At first, I compiled three corporas in order to resolve their differences and similarities well. Then I categorised each of these corporas and I uploaded them to corpus tool in order to get results specific and unusual. The results of this study revealed that the lexical bundles found have structural correlates as well as strong functional features that help to construct discourse in academic writing (Bal, 2010). And the study was concluded by recommendations further studies.

Keywords: lexical bundles, research articles, corpus, academic writing, structural and functional lexical bundles.

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Polysemous Verbs and Modality in Native and Non-Native Argumentative Writing: A Corpus-Based Study

Ziynet Kübra Bekaroğlu(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Şükrü Özbay)

The present study is a corpus-based analysis of a selection of polysemous lexical verbs used to express modality in student argumentative writing. Twenty-five lexical verbs were searched for in three corpora of argumentative essays KTUCLE and TICLE written in English by Turkish university students, and LOCNESS, The Louvain Corpus of English Essays, Concordance lines were examined to determine their use in the three corpora.

Keywords: Polysemous verbs, lexical verbs, modality, writer stance, academic writing, argumentative writing, foreign language writing, second language writing, learner corpora

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Lexical Ties in Texts: Categories of Cohesion and Coherence

Sedef Yancar(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

Encountering a language, whether through the spoken or the written medium, is not simply hearing a sequence of sounds or reading a sequence of letters. The way these sequences are communicated still occupies a central position in language studies. This presentation is about how thesequences English language users hear or see hang together: cohesion and coherence. In other words, the presentation dwells on the transaction between speakers and listeners, and writers and readers, from the perspective of the relations of meaning with which speakers and writers can mark the unity within and between sequences.

Keywords: language, lexis, category, cohesion, coherence

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Queen Victoria and the Status of Women in the Victorian Era

Gülçin Türk(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tuncer Yılmaz)

Despite being ruled by a woman, Victorian Era was a painful period for women from all strata; in other words, upper, middle, working class. Without class distinction, the fate of the women living in that era was related to their husbands or fathers. Patriarchal society was adopted. The basic duties of the women in the upper class were to raise their children morally and educate them, to make their husbands happy and to be good at housework, since their living space was limited to just home. In Victorian era, the woman’s place was seen as home. Middle class women, imprisoned in the house, deprived of their right to vote and many others, want to be doctors, teachers or engineers like their husbands. According to the mind-set of that period, women had two options; they would either fall to the street and become a "bad woman" or continue their home lives as a "chaste woman". Women had to comply with the movements called "etiquette" that the patriarchal mentality revealed. Women of the working class worked without pay for their labour, and the harassment they faced in their workplace was ignored. Women who had neither husband nor father earned money by prostitution. In this study, it is aimed to examine the 19 th century status of women and the attitude of Queen Victoria to womanhood.

Keywords: women, women status, Victorian Era, Queen Victoria, attitudes of Queen Victoria

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A Comparative Analysis of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Miraç Uslusoy(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Tuncer Yılmaz)

Fantasy and science fiction are the most popular genres of novel. These two genres are widely confused with each other. However, these genres have their own unique characteristics. Fantasy is an older genre of literature than science fiction and includes stories of supernatural elements as myths, gods and magic. On the other hand, science fiction deals with scenarios that might be possible based on technology. This seminar primarily focuses on the basic characteristics of fantasy and science fiction and the differences between fantasy and science fiction worlds.

Keywords: fantasy, science fiction, novel, characteristics

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Functional Text Analysis: A Guide for Students

Tunahan Turgut(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

This seminar provides a detailed plan for how to analyse English texts from a functional perspective. Generally, texts are analysed in 3 different viewpoints. First, in order to answer the question ‘‘What is the text about’’, the field of a selected text is analysed from the experiential viewpoint. Second, the mode of a selected text is analysed from the textual viewpoint, which helps us to answer the questions about the way a text was, or appears to have been, produced and delivered, interactivity and spontaneity will be the subtopics of mode. Tenor is the last and most complicated section which is analysed from the interpersonal viewpoint, which gives us information about the author of the text.

Keywords: text analysis, functional text analysis, field, mode, tone

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Context in Translation: Definition, Access and Teamwork

Ebru Karabıçak(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

It is generally agreed that when translating, context is essential. An individual word, such as ‘key’ (to a door? on a keyboard?) cannot be translated in isolation, unless the target language happens to maintain the same ambiguity as the source language. However, there is a lesser degree of consensus on the full extent of what comprises context in the world of translation and who is responsible for providing it. After a brief survey of prior discussion of context in translation, this article derives a five-aspect, translation-specific definition of context from one general description. Section 2 of this paper then describes these five aspects of context, termed co-text, rel-text, chron-text, bi-text, and non-text. Three of these aspects are monolingual: portions of a text (co-text), versions of a text (chron-text), and related text (rel-text). The fourth aspect (bi-text) covers bi-lingual resources. And the fifth aspect (nontext) is beyond text. Section 3 demonstrates, through real-life examples, that each of the five aspects is indeed relevant to the work of a translator and that translators thus need access to all aspects of context. Section 4 asks a broader question: "How can everyone in the multilingual communication industry work together to improve translations through providing and using needed context?" This article is directed at a broad audience that reaches beyond those who conduct research in Translation Studies and includes translators, translation project managers, buyers of translation services, and those responsible for the authoring of texts that will be translated. Hopefully, an increased understanding of the importance of context will help everyone involved in multilingual communication to better cooperate in providing appropriate, efficient, and effective translations.

Keywords: translation; context; co-text; bi-text; Levinas

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A Doll’s House: Henrik Ibsen’s Nora as an Angel in the House

Betül Akkuş(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

Throughout the history, the status and role of the woman have remarkably been changed in the different societies at different times. The comparison between the Eve aspect and the Virgin Mary aspect played a dominant role in the status and role of the Victorian woman. Woman in this age was expected to be obedient and dependent to her father or her husband. In such a patriarchal society, the woman was only praised on the condition that she became a loyal servant and devoted person to her family and kept her home as a sacred place. So, the expectation of the society from a woman was to be an ‘angel in her house’. This issue is well reflected by Henrik Ibsen whose play; A Doll’s House has a great impact on the woman question. He tells a story of an ideal, obedient Victorian woman with her sufferings. Accordingly, this study aims to depict the traditional Victorian woman and the term “angel in the house’ as reflected in Henrik Ibsen’s Nora in A Doll’s House.

Keywords: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House, Victorian woman, Angel in the House

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The Elizabethan Theatre and William Shakespeare’s Othello

Beyza Menteşoğlu(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nazan Yıldız)

The Elizabethan era is one of the most fascinating periods in the history of England. This era which is named after Queen Elizabeth marks England’s getting rid of the darkness of Mediaeval Period. The era is the age of the Renaissance, of new ideas and new thinking. The introduction of the printing press during the Renaissance, one of the greatest tools in increasing knowledge and learning, led to increasing interest in science and inventions. Also, the Renaissance positively affected the England theatre, namely Elizabethan theatre. The Elizabethan theatre was a booming business and the society loved theatre. In this era, the theatre improved both in structure and in context. The inn-keepers increased their profits by allowing plays to be shown on temporary stages erected in the yards of their inns, inn-yards. Later on, purpose-built playhouses and great open theatres were constructed. As to the content, the plays included a variety of incidents; mixing of tears and laughter; gentle and violent passions, time and space used freely – a sense of ongoing life behind the scenes, large ranges and numbers of characters (30 was common) as rich and poor individuals. Elizabethan theatre was rich in language and style too; elegant, ribald, witty, and also prosaic language was used for the development of the characters and the action. William Shakespeare is one of the most important playwrights in Elizabethan period. Shakespeare’s Othello is a story of a jealousy and racial conflict. In this context, this study aims to analyse William Shakespeare’s Othello as an outstanding play of the Elizabethan Theatre.

Keywords: Elizabethan period, theatre, Othello.

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Factors Affecting the Process of Translating

Yunus Emre Değermenci(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

The purpose of this study is to explain some problematic factors in translation in order to create a view about the inflicting causes. The complexity of translation is a well-known fact. The transfer of all the properties of a text in a given language to a target language is a tough process. This process reveals a number of problematic factors, such as linguistic, cultural and personal. The traditional discussion of the problems of literary translation take into consideration not merely finding equivalents for lexis, syntax or concepts, but also figurative language, connotations, denotations, cultural items and culture-specific concepts and values.

Keywords: translating difficulties, linguistics, culture, personal factors, foreign language

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Media: A Kingdom of Lies?

Emine Dilara Yılmaz(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

This study deals with how media means to help the manipulation of truths and the collapse of the huge historic wall between truths and lies. In today’s world, due to the widespread of media means, people have been so interconnected. All media means, internet and the social media included, allow us to stay connected permanently. This interconnectedness also leads to the use of language so much to hide the extremely unattractive realities, which is called post-truth. Even when people are dealing with objective facts, what is done is a kind of manipulation of statistics, hiding facts or misleading. If post-truth is about people’s sentiments, feelings and perceptions or their “subjective truths,” then what people see are just lies. However, post-truth is not a new phenomenon. In the past, it was called “propaganda,” “manipulation,” or simply “lie.” Post-truth is based on emotions and perceptions and not on facts or data. But the difference of our era is the internet; the quick and easy access to everything we need. Anything can spread so fast on the internet which can be mostly lies. The only way to prevent this is to read and search more to reveal the truth. People should not be vulnerable to lies, so first they need to educate themselves and they need to think more before they believe.

Keywords: post-truth, media, propaganda, lie, objective fact, subjective truth, reality

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The Language of Conversation

Seray Koçak(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Turgut)

This paper focuses on what happens during the process of a conversation, namely on the structure, the purpose and the features of conversation. It explores the relationships and interactions between speaker and listener. It examines different kinds of conversation including classroom interaction, mother and child communication etc. Conversation means interactive communication. Conversation happens between two or more people. Conversation is really important in communication of people. Conversations have some rules, kinds and terms. We are not aware of the rules that govern conversation but we operate Daily using them. Conversation takes part in whole life of somebody. From birth to death, we need communication, so we communicate in school, street or home. We use specific languages for every kind of conversation and usually we do that unconsciously. These languages that we use consciously or unconsciously form kinds of conversation. The importance of language in conversation is huge.

Keywords: communication, conversation, language.

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George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss

Meltem Bahçekapılı(Supervisor: Asst.Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My presentation is about George Eliot’s novel The Mill on The Floss. In this novel, Eliot focuses on the conflict between the central female character Maggie Tulliver and her society represented mainly by Maggie’s brother Tom Tulliver. In my presentation, I will examine the opposing attitudes of the siblings to the same events and situations. Eliot shows us how Maggie’s imagined world is far more different from the real world of her society. There are important contradictions of feeling between Maggie and her society. These contradictions show themselves between the oppressive society and the Maggie’s desires. At the end of my presentation, I will talk about the main aspects of my research on The Mill on The Floss that I plan to analyse during next semester in my thesis project.

Keywords: oppression, desire, Maggie Tulliver, The Mill on The Floss, George Eliot

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Jane Austen and Her Last Novel: Persuasion

Rakiye Özdal(Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Karam Nayebpour)

My presentation is about Jane Austen’s life and literary works. I will first give a brief information about Austen’s life and her works. I will try to show how her six novels have been received throughout the years by Austen’s critics. Then, I will focus on Austen’s last novel, Persuasion. I will introduce this novel in detail and will try to show how it has generally been read so far. Finally, I will close my presentation by raising some new questions about this novel. The questions can in fact be the subject of my thesis project during semester.

Keywords: Early 19th century, Jane Austen, woman novelist, Persuasion, Anne Eliot.

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