Asuman Aşık

Gazi University · Department of Foreign Languages

This study examines virtual exchange (VE) as a mode of internationalization at a distance through the Turkish higher education context. Recognizing the constraints of geographical mobility, VE emerges as a viable alternative to enhance international and intercultural learning through technology. Employing a qualitative phenomenological design, we i...

The paper discusses the potential of virtual exchange (VE) to promote the development of Internationalization at Home (IaH) approaches. With that aim, the GAZUFES VE project was undertaken in the COVID-19/post-pandemic scenario between two universities in the Global South: one in Brazil and another one in Turkey. The theoretical framework informing...

Foreign language learning has been found effective to help older people improve cognitive functioning and provide opportunities at psychological and social levels. This study aims to examine the difficulties encountered by older adult English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and their instructors within the framework of online learning and inst...

This study investigated the affordances of a mobile video observation and tagging tool used to evaluate presentation skills in English language classrooms. The data consists of 35 video-recorded presentations in a higher education setting. Using a digital evaluation grid, the students received feedback based on visual analytics generated by the mob...

This is the edited collection of the papers presented at an international symposium held at Coventry University in hybrid mode on 16th November 2022. The publication aims to share research findings and good Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) - Virtual Exchange (VE) theory and practice for the development of global citizenship compet...

This is the edited collection of the papers presented at an international symposium held at Coventry University in hybrid mode on 16th November 2022. The publication aims to share research findings and good Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) - Virtual Exchange (VE) theory and practice for the development of global citizenship compet...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education, particularly Web 2.0 tools, has become vital for today’s language teaching environment. Learners and instructors employ these tools to enhance engagement and motivation in the classroom. Optimal experience and heightened focus associated with the use Web 2.0 tools align with...

Virtual exchange (VE) between different English language teaching (ELT) contexts can afford opportunities to develop intercultural communicative competence (ICC) while also offering a window to reflect on different realities in terms of ELT. To this end, two ELT programmes integrated a VE project into their syllabi to provide pre-service teachers w...

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between listening metacognitive awareness and listening anxiety with relation to the ambiguity tolerance in foreign language teaching. Participants included 374 participants studying at the School of Foreign Languages from three different universities in Turkey. With sequential explanatory rese...

It has been acknowledged that the role of metacognitive awareness in foreign language learning is significant as it includes monitoring and regulating cognition to complete a task in a foreign language successfully. The metacognitive awareness of foreign language students has been investigated to understand and provide evidence for a better underst...

Interculturality and intercultural communicative competence were accepted as significant concepts in second/foreign language learning. In particular, intercultural sensitivity (IS) has been regarded as a precondition for intercultural communicative competence and interculturality. Due to the increased interest in intercultural sensitivity and globa...

Since human communication cannot be discussed apart from social context with reference to where, when, how and to whom it is uttered, Discourse Analysis of language can be called as the language in use. Hence, a complete understanding of any written or oral utterance can only be possible by interpreting those utterances depending on their contexts....

Mindfulness, as an ancient practice, has also started to be incorporated into second or foreign language settings in recent years. Due to this new and novel integration into the field, practitioners in foreign language teaching contexts are not clear about what mindfulness means and how it can be used in the classroom. This systematic review aims t...

In foreign language (FL) learning, albeit technology is widely used, it is still discussed what language teachers experience when they are employing existing technologies for effective language learning practices. For technology-enhanced language classrooms, the first step would be to determine the needs and possible challenges of technology integr...

This chapter aims to focus on presenting a number of implications about using technology for language teaching purposes in young learner classrooms by suggesting sample digital applications and practices. Since suggested digital tools and/or relevant websites can change or increase every day, this chapter will include how foreign language teachers...

It is acknowledged that technology has several affordances on raising cultural awareness and increasing intercultural communicative competence of foreign language learners. Therefore, this chapter aims to explore how technology can be used to increase intercultural awareness of foreign language learners. The advent of the internet and Web 2.0 in IC...

Language teacher education (LTE) is a dynamic field which needs to keep abreast of the changes in other fields and the teacher-oriented developments. In the 21st century, teacher education is required to meet the expectations of the pre-/in-service teachers, the learners, the technology, and the changing qualifications. In this sense, it is fundame...

This study investigates the online peer feedback practices of teacher trainees who are engaged in designing CALL materials. The participants are 111 pre-service English language teachers enrolled in a teacher education programme in Turkey, who post the materials they produce to an online course blog and then evaluate each other’s materials. The dat...

The aim of the study was to investigate how well language teacher education (LTE) programmes prepare future teachers for ICT integration with the comparison of three different contexts (Turkey, Portugal and Poland) from the perspectives of the teacher trainees and teacher educators (TEs). Using a scale and multiple interviews, the data were analyse...

This article reviewed research on recent trends and issues in CALL teacher education. For this purpose, it examined the studies published in four prominent journals between 2010-2018 to identify the general inclination in CALL teacher education in terms of study context, education context and method, and to investigate recent trends and issues rega...

The concept of professional agency has recently been predominating in the field of teacher education. Despite this considerable attention given to exploring professional agency embedded in different contexts, there is still scarcity in research on teacher trainees’ agentic roles. To this end, this study focuses on exploring the impact of practicum...

This paper presents the analysis of the self-reported reflections of pre-service English teachers about the use of digital storytelling and its tools in terms of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Through the reflection reports of 78 pre-service English teachers and a focus-group interview after implementing a digital storytelling project...

The study aims to present how technology integration can be fulfilled into Language Teacher Education (LTE) contexts by tracking the development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) of the pre-service English Language teachers through Learning Technology By Design approach. A total of 100 senior student teachers (STs) of English a...

APA Citation: Aşık, A. (2017). A sample corpus integration in language teacher education through coursebook evaluation. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 13(2), 728-740. Submission Abstract: The use of corpora has an increased interest in language teaching in the past two decades. Many corpora have been utilized for several purposes in l...

Recent years have witnessed increasing attention to the role of interaction in the classroom. Regarding the dynamic nature of language classrooms, teacher talk is assumed to promote interaction. Based on this assumption, this paper aims at investigating EFL teachers’ perceptions of their use of teacher talk and how analysis of language use contribu...

This paper presents the analysis of the self-reported reflections of pre-service English teachers about the use of digital storytelling and its tools in terms of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Through the reflection reports of 78 pre-service English teachers and a focus-group interview after implementing a digital storytelling project...

This study aims to discuss the authenticity of dialogues in locally produced ELT textbooks used in the secondary schools in Turkey. Turkey, like many countries, takes the initiative to produce and use locally written coursebooks approved by the Ministry of Education rather than those by international publishing houses, and these coursebooks are use...

Data-driven learning (DDL) has become an innovative approach developed from corpus linguistics. It plays a significant role in the progression of foreign language pedagogy, since it offers learners plentiful authentic corpora examples that make them analyze language rules with the help of online corpora and concordancers. The present study attempts...

The aim of this study was two-fold. Firstly, it attempted to investigate the effectiveness of vocabulary presentation modes: i) Corpus Based Contextual Guessing; ii) Dictionary Use; and iii) Online Instruction on the vocabulary development of EFL learners' recall and retention. The second purpose of the study was to compare the learners' success of...

This action research is conducted upon noticing the need to provide pre-service teachers of English with a deeper insight into their microteaching demonstrations in TEYL course, which takes place in third year of the teacher training program before the practicum. Regarding the microteachings in TEYL course, the pre-service teachers complained about...

This study investigated the production of discourse markers by non-native speakers of English and their occurrences in their spoken English by comparing them with those used in native speakers' spoken discourse. Because discourse markers (DMs) are significant items in spoken discourse of native speakers, a study about the use of DMs by nonnative sp...