International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Mar 1, 2021
As of the beginning of the Syrian war, many Syrian citizens had to relocate and migrate to other ... more As of the beginning of the Syrian war, many Syrian citizens had to relocate and migrate to other countries, which have borders with Syria. Turkey and Jordan are countries, which hosted very high numbers of Syrian refugees. The majority of Syrian refugees are children and they have not been able to integrate into the education system properly in the countries they sought refugee. These children need to acquire a certain level of knowledge and skills to restructure their institutions when they return to their countries in the post-war period. This study aims to examine the education policies of Turkey and Jordan to identify the problems associated with the existing system and to make various recommendations so as to make the content of refugee education better and more effective. Thus, the refugees can reconstruct a brighter future for their country, and for themselves. In the scope of this study, it can be observed that both Jordan and Turkey had to reconsider and make some changes in their refugee education policies to solve the problems encountered. The data of this research were collected through document analysis
Bu arastirmanin amaci, Turkiye’de yabanci dil olarak Turkce ogretmenlerinin mesleki gelisim uygul... more Bu arastirmanin amaci, Turkiye’de yabanci dil olarak Turkce ogretmenlerinin mesleki gelisim uygulamalarini, ihtiyaclarini ve gelisimlerine zorluk cikardigini dusundukleri faktorleri aciklamak ve bu alanda farkli egitim alarak calismaya baslamis ogretmenlerin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari arasinda farklilik olup olmadigini arastirmaktir. Ayrica, ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda hazirlanan bir mesleki gelisim etkinliginin ogretmenlerin algilarini nasil etkiledigi incelenmistir. Bu amacla ilk olarak bu alanda calisan 160 ogretmenin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari, uygulamalari, algiladiklari engeller ve mesleki gelisim tercihleri anket araciligiyla belirlenmistir. Sonra Ankara’daki Turkce ogretim merkezlerinden rastgele secilen 15 ogretmenle odak grup gorusmeleri yapilmistir. Bu gorusmelerden sonra gonullu katilimcilarin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda hazirlanan seminer sonrasinda ogretmenlerden edindikleri bilgileri bir ders saatinde uygulamaya koymasi istenmis ve ihtiyaclari dogrultusu...
Son yillarda Turkceye olan ilginin cesitli nedenlerle artmasiyla Turkcenin yabanci dil olarak ogr... more Son yillarda Turkceye olan ilginin cesitli nedenlerle artmasiyla Turkcenin yabanci dil olarak ogretimi alani daha cok onem kazanmaya baslamistir. Ancak bu artan ilgi beraberinde alandaki pek cok konuda daha derinlemesine calismalar yapilmasi gereksinimi de getirmistir. Bu konulardan birisi de alanda yazilmis ders kitaplarinin incelenmesidir. Ders kitaplari ogretim surecinde hem ogretmen hem de ogrenci icin en onemli kaynaklardan birisidir. Bu nedenle, ders kitaplarinin buyuk bir titizlikle hazirlanmasi gerekir. Ankara Turkce Ogretim Merkezi (TOMER) tarafindan hazirlanmis olan Hitit serisi kitaplari hem Turkiye’de hem de yurtdisindaki kurumlarda kullanilmaktadir. 2000 yilindan bu yana kullanilmakta olan Hitit Yabancilar Icin Turkce seti yaklasik uc yil suren bir calismayla Yeni Hitit adiyla Avrupa Konseyi’nin yayinladigi “Avrupa Dilleri Ogretimi Ortak Cerceve Programi”nin (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) olcutleri goz onunde bulundurularak yeniden hazirlanmistir...
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Tur... more This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Turkish as a foreign language perceive as the reasons for preventing their participation in development activities. The study also aimed to find out how a professional development activity prepared in line with the teachers’ needs affected their perceptions of professional development. Participants of the study were 160 Turkish as a foreign language teachers. Data were first investigated through a questionnaire. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. After these interviews, a seminar was prepared in line with the professional development needs of the volunteer participants to understand how a professional development activity, prepared according to the needs of the teachers affected their perceptions of professional development activities. The results indicated that teachers have a positive perception of professi...
International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The study aimed at investigating learners’ attitudes towards languages other than English (LOTEs)... more The study aimed at investigating learners’ attitudes towards languages other than English (LOTEs). The study also explored participant instructors’ views on students’ attitudes towards LOTEs. In order to collect data, a language attitude questionnaire was designed by adapting Students’ Attitude Toward Foreign Language (SAFL) instrument. The study sampled a total of 316 students, 261 from Turkey, 55 from the USA. University students enrolled in a second language course in the USA and Turkey were compared in terms of their responses to SAFL items as well as their attitude scores for each of the 4 dimensions. Separate confirmatory factor analyses were conducted for each sample with 4 varimax rotated, orthogonal factors. Factor scores for each individual were computed based on the weights identified by the factor analysis to obtain general measures of motivation, students’ effort and instructor's role, self-confidence and self-interest, and students' anxiety. According to the re...
Her research interests include integrating innovative learning technologies into education, teach... more Her research interests include integrating innovative learning technologies into education, teacher identity and designing for technology related identity development for disadvantaged groups. Nihan Aylin Ünlü is an instructor at Hacettepe University. She received MA degrees from Hacettepe University and Bilkent University. She completed her PhD in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language. Her research interests are teaching Turkish as a foreign language, teaching English as a foreign language. Copyright by Informascope. Material published and so copyrighted may not be published elsewhere without the written permission of IOJET.
This study aimed to investigate the professional development needs of Turkish as a foreign langua... more This study aimed to investigate the professional development needs of Turkish as a foreign language teachers and to examine whether there was a difference among the professional development needs of teachers with different educational backgrounds. To this end, the professional development needs of teachers were first investigated through a questionnaire administered to a total of 160 participants. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. The population of the study was teachers working in Turkish language centers and institutes around Turkey. As a research method, the explanatory sequential mixed method was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive and prescriptive statistical analyses were conducted and content analysis was used in the analysis of the interviews. Findings revealed that teachers needed to develop speaking and writing skills in both assessment and teaching. Professional development needs of the teachers varied according to age, occupational experience, the department they graduated from and the latest graduation degree. Finally, pedagogical implications of our research are briefly considered.
This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Tur... more This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Turkish as a foreign language perceive as the reasons for preventing their participation in development activities. The study also aimed to find out how a professional development activity prepared in line with the teachers' needs affected their perceptions of professional development. Participants of the study were 160 Turkish as a foreign language teachers. Data were first investigated through a questionnaire. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. After these interviews, a seminar was prepared in line with the professional development needs of the volunteer participants to understand how a professional development activity, prepared according to the needs of the teachers affected their perceptions of professional development activities. The results indicated that teachers have a positive perception of professional development in general. The reasons they perceived as barriers to their participation in these activities were intense pace in their lives, their hectic work schedule and the inefficiency of professional development trainers, while the kinds of activities that they participated in were evaluating their own performance, reading articles, journals and books related to the field, sharing information with colleagues, conducting inclass research and receiving help from colleagues. The research has implications for professional development providers to improve the effectiveness of professional development activities for teachers of teaching Turkish as a foreign language.
This study aims at evaluating the newly designed in-service teacher training program for the expe... more This study aims at evaluating the newly designed in-service teacher training program for the experienced teachers at Hacettepe University, School of Foreign Languages. This evaluation was conducted by using Kirkpatrick's evaluation model in order to examine the effectiveness of the program in terms of achieving objectives from the perspective of the trainer and the trainees. For the data collection four instruments were used: a questionnaire was given to the trainees to determine their expectations and reactions towards the training program; individual sessions with the trainees were recorded to get information about the process of action research; interviews were done with the trainees and the trainer at the end of the program to learn their reaction to the whole experience and finally the results of the evaluation done at the end of the program were used.
YABANCI DİL OLARAK TÜRKÇE ÖĞRETİMİNDE TEKNOLOJİ KULLANIMINA YÖNELİK BİR DEĞERLENDİRME, 2020
Günümüzde internet erişiminin oldukça kolay ulaşılabilir ve yaygın olması sebebiyle bilişim tekno... more Günümüzde internet erişiminin oldukça kolay ulaşılabilir ve yaygın olması sebebiyle bilişim teknolojileri hayatın hemen hemen her alanında kullanılabilmektedir. Bu teknolojiler, yabancı dil öğretiminde de etkin bir şekilde kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Geçmişte yabancı dil öğretiminde teknolojik olarak genellikle dil laboratuvarları kullanılırken günümüzde gelişen teknolojilerle beraber birçok farklı çoklu ortam etkinlikleri kullanılmaktadır. Dünya genelinde yabancı dil olarak öğretilen dillerin başında gelen İngilizcenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde, günümüzde birçok çoklu ortam araçları mevcut olmasına karşın Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde bu araçların kullanımının henüz yeterince yaygın olmadığı görülmektedir. İnternet, yabancı dil öğretiminde kullanılmaya uygun olan ve katkı sağlayan birçok uygulama sunmaktadır. Bununla birlikte uzaktan eğitim, zaman ve mekândan bağımsız olarak ve bilişim teknolojileri kullanılarak yapılan ekonomik ve etkileşimli bir eğitim şekli olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde gün geçtikçe artan internet ve uzaktan eğitim uygulamaları göze çarpmaktadır. Ancak bu çalışmaların henüz istenilen seviyede olduğu söylenemez. Bu sebeple bu alanda yapılan çalışmaların geliştirilmesi ve yeni çalışmalara ışık tutulması gerekmektedir. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmanın amacı, konuyla ilgili yazılmış ulusal ve uluslararası makaleleri tarayarak yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan ve kullanılabilecek teknoloji uygulamalarını incelemek, yabancı dil öğrenci ve öğreticilerini bu uygulamalardan haberdar etmek ve dolaylı yoldan uygulamaların geliştirilmesine ve kullanılmasına katkı sağlamaktır. Araştırma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan doküman inceleme tekniği ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın, yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde teknoloji kullanımına ilişkin gelecekte yapılması planlanan araştırmaların daha etkili ve verimli sonuçlar vermesine katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.
International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, Mar 1, 2021
As of the beginning of the Syrian war, many Syrian citizens had to relocate and migrate to other ... more As of the beginning of the Syrian war, many Syrian citizens had to relocate and migrate to other countries, which have borders with Syria. Turkey and Jordan are countries, which hosted very high numbers of Syrian refugees. The majority of Syrian refugees are children and they have not been able to integrate into the education system properly in the countries they sought refugee. These children need to acquire a certain level of knowledge and skills to restructure their institutions when they return to their countries in the post-war period. This study aims to examine the education policies of Turkey and Jordan to identify the problems associated with the existing system and to make various recommendations so as to make the content of refugee education better and more effective. Thus, the refugees can reconstruct a brighter future for their country, and for themselves. In the scope of this study, it can be observed that both Jordan and Turkey had to reconsider and make some changes in their refugee education policies to solve the problems encountered. The data of this research were collected through document analysis
Bu arastirmanin amaci, Turkiye’de yabanci dil olarak Turkce ogretmenlerinin mesleki gelisim uygul... more Bu arastirmanin amaci, Turkiye’de yabanci dil olarak Turkce ogretmenlerinin mesleki gelisim uygulamalarini, ihtiyaclarini ve gelisimlerine zorluk cikardigini dusundukleri faktorleri aciklamak ve bu alanda farkli egitim alarak calismaya baslamis ogretmenlerin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari arasinda farklilik olup olmadigini arastirmaktir. Ayrica, ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda hazirlanan bir mesleki gelisim etkinliginin ogretmenlerin algilarini nasil etkiledigi incelenmistir. Bu amacla ilk olarak bu alanda calisan 160 ogretmenin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari, uygulamalari, algiladiklari engeller ve mesleki gelisim tercihleri anket araciligiyla belirlenmistir. Sonra Ankara’daki Turkce ogretim merkezlerinden rastgele secilen 15 ogretmenle odak grup gorusmeleri yapilmistir. Bu gorusmelerden sonra gonullu katilimcilarin mesleki gelisim ihtiyaclari dogrultusunda hazirlanan seminer sonrasinda ogretmenlerden edindikleri bilgileri bir ders saatinde uygulamaya koymasi istenmis ve ihtiyaclari dogrultusu...
Son yillarda Turkceye olan ilginin cesitli nedenlerle artmasiyla Turkcenin yabanci dil olarak ogr... more Son yillarda Turkceye olan ilginin cesitli nedenlerle artmasiyla Turkcenin yabanci dil olarak ogretimi alani daha cok onem kazanmaya baslamistir. Ancak bu artan ilgi beraberinde alandaki pek cok konuda daha derinlemesine calismalar yapilmasi gereksinimi de getirmistir. Bu konulardan birisi de alanda yazilmis ders kitaplarinin incelenmesidir. Ders kitaplari ogretim surecinde hem ogretmen hem de ogrenci icin en onemli kaynaklardan birisidir. Bu nedenle, ders kitaplarinin buyuk bir titizlikle hazirlanmasi gerekir. Ankara Turkce Ogretim Merkezi (TOMER) tarafindan hazirlanmis olan Hitit serisi kitaplari hem Turkiye’de hem de yurtdisindaki kurumlarda kullanilmaktadir. 2000 yilindan bu yana kullanilmakta olan Hitit Yabancilar Icin Turkce seti yaklasik uc yil suren bir calismayla Yeni Hitit adiyla Avrupa Konseyi’nin yayinladigi “Avrupa Dilleri Ogretimi Ortak Cerceve Programi”nin (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) olcutleri goz onunde bulundurularak yeniden hazirlanmistir...
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Tur... more This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Turkish as a foreign language perceive as the reasons for preventing their participation in development activities. The study also aimed to find out how a professional development activity prepared in line with the teachers’ needs affected their perceptions of professional development. Participants of the study were 160 Turkish as a foreign language teachers. Data were first investigated through a questionnaire. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. After these interviews, a seminar was prepared in line with the professional development needs of the volunteer participants to understand how a professional development activity, prepared according to the needs of the teachers affected their perceptions of professional development activities. The results indicated that teachers have a positive perception of professi...
International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The study aimed at investigating learners’ attitudes towards languages other than English (LOTEs)... more The study aimed at investigating learners’ attitudes towards languages other than English (LOTEs). The study also explored participant instructors’ views on students’ attitudes towards LOTEs. In order to collect data, a language attitude questionnaire was designed by adapting Students’ Attitude Toward Foreign Language (SAFL) instrument. The study sampled a total of 316 students, 261 from Turkey, 55 from the USA. University students enrolled in a second language course in the USA and Turkey were compared in terms of their responses to SAFL items as well as their attitude scores for each of the 4 dimensions. Separate confirmatory factor analyses were conducted for each sample with 4 varimax rotated, orthogonal factors. Factor scores for each individual were computed based on the weights identified by the factor analysis to obtain general measures of motivation, students’ effort and instructor's role, self-confidence and self-interest, and students' anxiety. According to the re...
Her research interests include integrating innovative learning technologies into education, teach... more Her research interests include integrating innovative learning technologies into education, teacher identity and designing for technology related identity development for disadvantaged groups. Nihan Aylin Ünlü is an instructor at Hacettepe University. She received MA degrees from Hacettepe University and Bilkent University. She completed her PhD in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language. Her research interests are teaching Turkish as a foreign language, teaching English as a foreign language. Copyright by Informascope. Material published and so copyrighted may not be published elsewhere without the written permission of IOJET.
This study aimed to investigate the professional development needs of Turkish as a foreign langua... more This study aimed to investigate the professional development needs of Turkish as a foreign language teachers and to examine whether there was a difference among the professional development needs of teachers with different educational backgrounds. To this end, the professional development needs of teachers were first investigated through a questionnaire administered to a total of 160 participants. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. The population of the study was teachers working in Turkish language centers and institutes around Turkey. As a research method, the explanatory sequential mixed method was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive and prescriptive statistical analyses were conducted and content analysis was used in the analysis of the interviews. Findings revealed that teachers needed to develop speaking and writing skills in both assessment and teaching. Professional development needs of the teachers varied according to age, occupational experience, the department they graduated from and the latest graduation degree. Finally, pedagogical implications of our research are briefly considered.
This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Tur... more This study investigated the professional development practices and obstacles that teachers of Turkish as a foreign language perceive as the reasons for preventing their participation in development activities. The study also aimed to find out how a professional development activity prepared in line with the teachers' needs affected their perceptions of professional development. Participants of the study were 160 Turkish as a foreign language teachers. Data were first investigated through a questionnaire. Then, 15 teachers were interviewed in focus groups randomly selected from Turkish teaching centers (TÖMER) in Ankara. After these interviews, a seminar was prepared in line with the professional development needs of the volunteer participants to understand how a professional development activity, prepared according to the needs of the teachers affected their perceptions of professional development activities. The results indicated that teachers have a positive perception of professional development in general. The reasons they perceived as barriers to their participation in these activities were intense pace in their lives, their hectic work schedule and the inefficiency of professional development trainers, while the kinds of activities that they participated in were evaluating their own performance, reading articles, journals and books related to the field, sharing information with colleagues, conducting inclass research and receiving help from colleagues. The research has implications for professional development providers to improve the effectiveness of professional development activities for teachers of teaching Turkish as a foreign language.
This study aims at evaluating the newly designed in-service teacher training program for the expe... more This study aims at evaluating the newly designed in-service teacher training program for the experienced teachers at Hacettepe University, School of Foreign Languages. This evaluation was conducted by using Kirkpatrick's evaluation model in order to examine the effectiveness of the program in terms of achieving objectives from the perspective of the trainer and the trainees. For the data collection four instruments were used: a questionnaire was given to the trainees to determine their expectations and reactions towards the training program; individual sessions with the trainees were recorded to get information about the process of action research; interviews were done with the trainees and the trainer at the end of the program to learn their reaction to the whole experience and finally the results of the evaluation done at the end of the program were used.
YABANCI DİL OLARAK TÜRKÇE ÖĞRETİMİNDE TEKNOLOJİ KULLANIMINA YÖNELİK BİR DEĞERLENDİRME, 2020
Günümüzde internet erişiminin oldukça kolay ulaşılabilir ve yaygın olması sebebiyle bilişim tekno... more Günümüzde internet erişiminin oldukça kolay ulaşılabilir ve yaygın olması sebebiyle bilişim teknolojileri hayatın hemen hemen her alanında kullanılabilmektedir. Bu teknolojiler, yabancı dil öğretiminde de etkin bir şekilde kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Geçmişte yabancı dil öğretiminde teknolojik olarak genellikle dil laboratuvarları kullanılırken günümüzde gelişen teknolojilerle beraber birçok farklı çoklu ortam etkinlikleri kullanılmaktadır. Dünya genelinde yabancı dil olarak öğretilen dillerin başında gelen İngilizcenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde, günümüzde birçok çoklu ortam araçları mevcut olmasına karşın Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde bu araçların kullanımının henüz yeterince yaygın olmadığı görülmektedir. İnternet, yabancı dil öğretiminde kullanılmaya uygun olan ve katkı sağlayan birçok uygulama sunmaktadır. Bununla birlikte uzaktan eğitim, zaman ve mekândan bağımsız olarak ve bilişim teknolojileri kullanılarak yapılan ekonomik ve etkileşimli bir eğitim şekli olarak öne çıkmaktadır. Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğretiminde gün geçtikçe artan internet ve uzaktan eğitim uygulamaları göze çarpmaktadır. Ancak bu çalışmaların henüz istenilen seviyede olduğu söylenemez. Bu sebeple bu alanda yapılan çalışmaların geliştirilmesi ve yeni çalışmalara ışık tutulması gerekmektedir. Bu bağlamda bu çalışmanın amacı, konuyla ilgili yazılmış ulusal ve uluslararası makaleleri tarayarak yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan ve kullanılabilecek teknoloji uygulamalarını incelemek, yabancı dil öğrenci ve öğreticilerini bu uygulamalardan haberdar etmek ve dolaylı yoldan uygulamaların geliştirilmesine ve kullanılmasına katkı sağlamaktır. Araştırma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan doküman inceleme tekniği ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın, yabancı dil olarak Türkçe öğretiminde teknoloji kullanımına ilişkin gelecekte yapılması planlanan araştırmaların daha etkili ve verimli sonuçlar vermesine katkı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.
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