Ciler Hatipoglu

Middle East Technical University | METU · Department of Foreign Language Education

This study is situated within the English language testing and evaluation course, integral to the English language teaching curriculum, wherein senior-year preservice teachers are involved in designing language exams as a part of their evaluation criteria. They actively engage in reciprocal peer feedback sessions aimed at identifying weaknesses and...

The “Language Phylogeny Poster” (LangPP) project (Family Trees of Languages) is a series of three educational posters based on recent work in historical linguistics – the study of the evolution of languages – using, among others, the same phylogenetic methods commonly applied in the life sciences (population genetics, Bayesian inference, etc.). The...

List of all 72 posters (as of March 2024) with hyperlinks to each poster on ResearchGate. * Click on the ‘X’ within a box to open the respective page of the poster on ResearchGate from where it can be downloaded. Posters now available in 18 languages: English, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, French, German, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese, Spa...

"DÜNYA DİL AİLELERİ" posterleri – seçilmiş önemli dillerin ve dil ailelerinin ilişkileri ve kökenlerine genel bir bakış sağlayan üç eğitim posterinden oluşan bir dizidir. Posterlerin tümü burada üç sayfalık tek bir PDF dokümanı olarak derlenmiştir (A0 boyutuna kadar yazdırılabilir). © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Hatipoglu 2024 (CC-BY)

COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E, HATİPOĞLU Ç (2024) DÜNYA DİL AİLELERİ – Bölüm 2: Amerikan, Transavrasya, Çin-Tibet, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Avustroasya, Avustronezya © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Hatipoğlu 2024 (CC-BY), Turkish version of: COLE, SIEBERT-COLE (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, Part 2: American, Transeurasian, Sino-Tibetan, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Austro-...

COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E, HATIPOĞLU Ç (2024) DÜNYA DİL AİLELERİ – Bölüm 3: Afrika, Dravid, Ural, Kafkas, Afro-Asya © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Hatipoğlu 2024 (CC-BY), Turkish version of: COLE, SIEBERT-COLE (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, Part 3: African, Dravidian, Uralic, Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic • seçili diller ve dil aileleri • filolinguistik analizle...

COLE TCH, SIEBERT-COLE E, HATİPOĞLU Ç (2024) DÜNYA DİL AİLELERİ ‒ BÖLÜM 1: Hint-Avrupa © Cole, Siebert-Cole, Hatipoğlu 2024 (CC-BY), Turkish version of: COLE, SIEBERT-COLE (2024) FAMILY TREE of LANGUAGES, PART 1: Indo-European • seçili diller ve dil aileleri • filolinguistik analizlere dayanan varsayımsal dil ailesi (temel olarak Heggarty etb al. 2...

“Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this impact can be either positive or negative” (Hattie & Timperley, 2007, p. 81). When done well, it is a powerful contributor to student learning. However, if it is insufficient, given at the wrong time and in the wrong tone for the specific context, feedback may be...

The COVID-19 outbreak forced many changes in education, including teaching techniques, teacher-student interactions, materials, and assessment practices. The present study aims to uncover students' opinions on the types of exams they took, their evaluation of the testing/ assessment practices they experienced, whether online learning influenced the...

The COVID-19 outbreak forced many changes in education, including teaching techniques, teacher-student interactions, materials, and assessment practices. The present study aims to uncover students' opinions on the types of exams they took, their evaluation of the testing/ assessment practices they experienced, whether online learning influenced the...

Translating from one language to another is a heavy cognitive process, as there are many factors and structures that the translators need to consider while transferring the information. For a good translation, just transferring the information is not enough. It should accurately replicate the source text’s lexical and structural patterns and the su...

Foreign language assessment and evaluation is one of the most important and, at the same time, one of the most challenging areas for foreign language teacher candidates to develop. The importance of the testing and assessment knowledge has been demonstrated by studies conducted in different educational contexts, showing that a typical teacher spend...

At the beginning of 2020, few people could imagine that the new coronavirus, COVID-19, would impact that many aspects of our lives and change the content, structure, and teaching methods we knew before. Many language teachers (LT) worldwide who had been effectively implementing face-to-face instruction had to make an abrupt transition to online edu...

This study investigates the cultural conceptualization of congratulatory happy events in British English and Turkish and discusses them cross-culturally. A lexical search was carried out in various corpora from the newspaper genre using the verbs congratulate in English and its dictionary counterparts tebrik etmek and kutlamak in Turkish along with...

This study investigates the current state of a language testing course taught in Foreign Language Education Departments in Türkiye. It examines who teaches the ELTEC, how course content is determined, and which topics and textbooks are covered. The participants of the study included 21 ELTEC instructors from 13 universities. Semi-structured intervi...

This policy brief intends to guide non-European credit-seeking international students in their integration into European universities and countries they are studying in.

The popularity of online crowdsourcing platforms was slowly increasing among language learners before the pandemic, but COVID-19 changed the educational systems worldwide. This study aims to uncover whether or not, and if ‘YES’, how the attitudes and habits of language learners concerning the use of crowdsourcing materials in Turkey, Bosnia and Her...

Foreign language (FL) assessment is one of the most critical and challenging areas for pre-service FL teachers to develop. It is essential since various studies have shown that typical teachers spend up to half of their professional time in assessment-related activities. The area is difficult because its theoretical concepts are highly abstract. Be...

The 2022 EUROCALL conference was held in Reykjavik on 17-19 August 2022 as a fully online event hosted by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages, the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. The conference theme was Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data. This theme reflects the...

The chapter presents the most widely used politeness theories and shows how knowing them can help language teachers and learners teach and learn languages more successfully.

The current study presents and discusses the historical and sociocultural contexts and policies related to foreign language teaching and assessment in the last two centuries (1700-1922) of an “extraordinary empire, with roots in the Byzantine, Turkish, Islamic, and Renaissance political and cultural tradition” (Quataert, 2005, p. xi). This is the p...

Yabancı dilde ölçme ve değerlendirme, yabancı dil öğretmen adaylarının geliştirmesi gereken en önemli (Berry, Sheehan & Munro, 2019; Hatipoğlu, 2015, 2017; Levi & Inbar-Lorie, 2020; Stiggins, 2002) aynı zamanda da en zor alanlardan biridir (O’Loughlin, 2006). Ölçme ve değerlendirme bilgisi önemlidir çünkü farklı eğitim bağlamlarında yürütülen çalış...

This chapter presents and discusses various formative assessment strategies that language teachers can use to assess their students writing and speaking skills development.

The 2021 EUROCALL conference engaged just under 250 speakers from 40 different countries. Cnam Paris and Sorbonne Université joined forces to host and organise the event despite the challenging context due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Originally programmed to be held on site in the heart of Paris, France, the EUROCALL organising team and executive com...

Online crowdsourcing sites/platforms have become popular in recent years, and the first aim of this study is to uncover what crowdsourcing resources language learners in Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of North Macedonia and Poland know about and use. The other two goals of the study are to uncover what crowdsourcing games or websites...

Online crowdsourcing sites/platforms have become popular in recent years. This study aims to uncover when, where, and how language learners in Turkey (TUR), Poland (POL), Macedonia (MAC), and Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) make use of the available crowdsourcing websites/games to learn foreign languages. To ensure parallelism among the data collected...

In spring 2020 both teachers and learners experienced the interruption of education as it had been established for over 150 years and seemed to be unchangeable. The paper focuses on students’ perspectives on how they perceive the changes in learning due to the pandemic educational emergency response based on the results of a survey of students in f...

The paper presents a cross-European survey on teachers and crowdsourcing. The survey examines how familiar language teachers are with the concept of crowdsourcing and addresses their attitude towards including crowdsourcing into language teaching activities. The survey was administrated via an online questionnaire and collected volunteers' data on:...

In the study reported here we focus on proverbs in English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebooks and how the pithy structure and the "wisdom"-loaded content of proverbs can contribute to the development of foreign language learners' communicative competence as defined by Bachman (1990). We discuss how the most frequently used coursebooks in the conte...

This study is concerned with the informal dimension of formative assessment (FA) in an L2 classroom. It examines those instances that are embedded into everyday learning activities and that emerge in and through classroom interaction contingently, continuously and flexibly. Drawing on the methodological underpinnings of Conversation Analysis (CA),...

This study aims to reveal the situation about proverb instruction in EFL classrooms by seeking future English teachers’ opinions. It is based on the argument that proverbs are an important part of cultural references, figurative, functional and formulaic language; thereby, they lend themselves well to enhancing communicative competence. This study...

This study investigates Reference to a Past Learning Event (RPLE) in an L2 instructional setting using Conversation Analysis (CA). It involves the analysis of video-recordings of an EFL class (55 classroom hours) in a preparatory school at a state university. Using CA, it uncovers how teachers make RPLE and contingently extend the main instructiona...

Writing argumentative paragraphs is challenging even in one’s first language (L1) since in order to fulfil their goals writers need to carefully choose among the available metadiscoursive tools and skilfully balance their use. Writing in a foreign language (L2) is even more challenging because language learners are usually familiar only with a limi...

It is now commonly accepted that academic discourses tend to provide venues for participants to interact where the producer needs to display an awareness of the audience, and metadiscourse (MD) is the set of tools enabling the involved parties to establish relationships. MD strategies allow writers to project themselves into their work, signal thei...

The World Englishes (Kachru et al., 2006) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) (Jenkins et al., 2011) paradigms warn us that English now has different varieties, which due to their widespread use and regularity, should be embraced and included in English language pedagogy practices. The practitioners in the classroom are the teachers, however, and...

The introductory linguistics courses have been a constant component of the pre-service English Language Teaching (ELT) curricula in Turkey since 1944 when the ELT Department at Gazi Institute of Education was establishment (Hatipoğlu 2017; Hatipoğlu & Erçetin, 2016). In Turkey, no ELT student can graduate and become a language teacher without takin...

Taking metadiscourse as their starting point, the contributions to this edited volume focus both on the interactive and cross-cultural aspects of written texts from varying genres. Using rich and innovative data collection and analysis methods, comparing and contrasting patterns in frequently studied (English, Japanese) with understudied (Turkish,...

The values and world views of different nations are reflected in their educational systems (Barnwell 1996). The methodologies they use to train language teachers and to assess language proficiency not only mirror and reinforce general attitudes about language and language learning but also create closed systems that are usually highly resistant to...

Assessment is one of the cornerstones of the educational process but perceptions and needs related to assessment are evolving and changing and might be context dependent. Therefore, foreign language teacher training programs should monitor, revise and regularly innovate their English Language Testing and Evaluation (ELTE) courses so that they prepa...

This paper presents and discusses the first stages in the construction of the Middle East Technical University Turkish English Exam Corpus (METU TEEC), which has been compiled by a research team at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. The corpus consists of 1914 Linguistics and ELT exam papers (955483 words in total) written in...

Drawing on Communities of Practice (CoP) (Wenger 1998) and some aspects of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory (1987), this study examines both qualitatively and quantitatively apology data collected through Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs) from 414 (195 Female and 219 Male) Turkish and British university students. The findings of the study sup...

The book includes work presented at the 24th National Linguistics Conference held at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, on May 17-18, 2010.

This paper examines how the bald-on-record refusal ‘NO’ of a request is evaluated by male and female native speakers of Turkish. It also tries to uncover whether or not the distance between the interlocutors and the gender of the individual refusing the request affect the way refusals are classified on the polite-rude continuum. The data analysed i...

This study, first, identifies the groups of interlocutors that university students address with the familiar second person pronoun SEN and uncovers the social meanings that are most frequently associated with SEN by this group of subjects. Then, it examines whether or not Brown and Gilman’s (1960) ‘Power and Solidarity’ model is able to explain all...

This study aims to uncover whether or not factors such as national and professional identities and the medium of interaction (i.e., e-mails), affect the way Turkish and British conference organisers begin their Call for Papers for international conferences (CFPIC), and when and how they use inclusive ‘we’ pronouns in messages written in English. Th...

Easy access, speed and efficiency have placed e-mailing firmly among the main mediums of communication in the last few decades. Therefore, in the recent years there has been a growing interest in the so called e-mail language (Baron 1998a, b; Hatipoglu 2004) and some researchers have claimed that a distinct medium of interaction with universally va...

Advances in technology, easy access and efficiency have firmly established e-mailing as an important medium of communication in the last few decades. Nowadays, all over the world, especially in educational organisations, the medium has started to rapidly replace the more traditional forms of communication such as mailed letters and telephone conver...