Dilek Ilhan

• Master of Education
• Lecturer at Yıldız Technical University

This study brings a novel perspective to the relationship between higher education and work life by examining work-domain goal orientation as a critical factor in preparing students for professional environments. Through an extensive literature review, it highlights the role of work-domain goal orientation in aligning higher education curricula wit...

Today and tomorrow, the world needs individuals who can manipulate critical and creative thinking skills to solve problems as a team. With technology, the way knowledge is obtained, constructed and communicated have completely transformed and altered. When it comes to education, it is a matter of question whether education is capable of creating cr...

The CLT, after it was introduced in 1970s, started to be rejoiced as many teaching approaches had often gone short of answering a wide range of needs as CLT. It was all of a sudden that the CLT became the most popular method of all as it attached specific utmost importance to the ultimate goal of learning a language: communicating in the target lan...

The CLT, after it was introduced in 1970s, started to be rejoiced as many teaching approaches had often gone short of answering a wide range of needs as CLT. It was all of a sudden that the CLT became the most popular method of all as it attached specific utmost importance to the ultimate goal of learning a language: communicating in the target lan...

The aim of this paper is to provide a reflective synthesis on the teaching of the English language in Turkey from a linguistic perspective with some implications on the teaching of grammar and with specific reference to adjective-noun compounds and their related structures by putting forward a theory of an approximation of the relevant structures o...

Today and tomorrow, the world needs individuals who can manipulate critical and creative thinking skills to solve problems as a team. With technology, the way knowledge is obtained, constructed and communicated have completely transformed and altered. When it comes to education, it is a matter of question whether education is capable of creating cr...

Acknowledging that it is a global world now, it is quite difficult to deny that there is a thorough interaction between higher education and globalization where economic, cultural and social matters of individual nations are handled from international and global perspectives. Today’s global economy is heavily dependent upon knowledge and innovation...

This study investigates the current perceptions towards the vocational schools in public opinion in Turkey. It is suggested that the underlying reason why vocational schools haven’t yet acquired their well-deserved place in the Turkish higher education history is the current perceived public opinion towards vocational schools that they evolved over...

Attitudes and motivational beliefs are seen as an essential prerequisite for language learning so both of them should be taken into consideration through this process. The study was designed to investigate the undergraduates’ motivational beliefs and attitudes regarding learning English in terms of gender, grades and department variables. A total o...

In recent years, bilingual education has been a crucial phenomenon in the educational community in Turkey. This study aims to investigate whether academics have positive perceptions towards bilingual education or not. Regarding this issue, it is important to get the opinions of academics that are responsible for training future teachers. An online...

Attitudes and motivational beliefs are seen as an essential prerequisite for language learning so both of them should be taken into consideration through this process. The study was designed to investigate the undergraduates' motivational beliefs and attitudes regarding learning English in terms of gender, grades and department variables. A total o...