Elif Kemaloglu-Er

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University

This pedagogical idea section presents an educational model for ELF-aware pre-service teacher education and describes what to do in order that teacher candidates can acquire ELF-related pedagogical experience.

In several educational settings aiming to teach English as a foreign language, the myth of the superiority of native English speaking teachers (NESTs) over non-native English speaking teachers (NNESTs) seems to hold strong especially among students. Contrary to this, the present study, which investigated the perceptions of university students study...

In English preparatory programs of English medium instruction (EMI) universities, it is significant to give content-based instruction to students related to their majors. By doing so, students can both improve in English and increase their knowledge and experience in their field of study and become more prepared for their future studies. On the oth...

This chapter showcases through relevant lesson plans ways that English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) can be integrated into the pedagogy of English language teaching. ELF, referring to communication among speakers from diverse lingua-cultures, has become a dynamic social reality globally recognised by millions of speakers for the last decade. Bayyurt pr...

As English has developed into a global language, comprehensive suggestions have been made for the integration of World Englishes (WE) and English as a lingua Franca (ELF) into language education. However, such suggestions have often encountered considerable resistance, in part due to the complexities in the formation of language teacher identity. I...

English preparatory programs at English medium instruction (EMI) universities aim to help students gain the necessary competence in English so that they can fulfil their academic and communicative goals at the international level. Preparatory students may experience different psychological situations including feeling in-between. Being neither a hi...

In content and language integrated English language teaching, raising learners' awareness of sociological and environmental issues is significant since such pedagogical actions provide learners with meaningful and purposeful content and cause them to both critically reflect on and communicate about their lives and actions and produce individual and...

Culture is a distinctive trait of the human being as s/he is the one having the required competence to generate the entity of culture, which mainly involves the use of mind and language. Culture functions as the mental and social adaptations of the human being to meet the challenges of his/her environment. All elements in culture, material objects,...

Globalleşme ve internetin yaşamımızın merkezine yerleştiği günümüz dünyasında İngilizce dili öğreniminin sadece sınıf içi uygulama ve alıştırma rutini içerisinde değil, doğrudan yaşamın içerisine girerek ve insanlarla etkileşimde bulunularak gerçekleştirilmesi büyük önem taşımaktadır. Gerçek yaşam temelli yaklaşımlardan proje tabanlı öğrenmeyi esas...

Proje tabanlı öğrenme, sınıf dışına uzanan ve özgün ürünlerle sonuçlandırılan araştırma içerikli, iletişimsel ve yaratıcı görevlerin gerçek hayat temelli olarak kullanımını içerir. Proje tabanlı öğrenme yükseköğrenim düzeyinde yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğrenimini ilerletecek bir araç olarak kullanılabilir ancak bu konuda Türk yükseköğrenim bağla...

Project-based learning (PBL) involves real-life-based use of investigative, interactive and creative tasks that extend beyond the classroom and culminate in authentic products. PBL can be used as a means to promote tertiary-level EFL learning, yet there is little research on the issue in Turkish higher education contexts. This study develops a PBL...

English language teaching (ELT) at rural schools may pose challenges like insufficient resources and a lack of students' interest. Integrating real-life-based and learner-centred methods like project-based learning (PBL) into rural English classes may help improve the quality of ELT in such contexts, yet the issue still remains underexplored. This...

Blended learning which synthesizes face-to-face instruction with distance education opportunities in educationally meaningful ways aims to take advantage of the affordances of both genuine and virtual types of teaching and ubiquitously equip learners without the limitation of time and space. Blended learning has been integrated into several pre-ser...

Translation is a real-life activity, increasingly essential in today’s multilingual and multicultural global world. Despite its ubiquity, this bilingual activity has long been ignored in the field of ELT. Yet, translation is an invaluable asset of the bilingual speaker-hearer that can be pedagogically useful as it has the potential to improve lingu...

Blogs can be used as constructive means in EFL teaching allowing learners to exert control over their own writing and enabling them to communicate with the global community of internet users. Among different types of blogs, travel blogs can be employed as pedagogical means for real life based learning and L2 writing improvement. Through travel blog...

This study presents the evaluation of a form-focused instructional program offered to the intensive English classes of an English-medium university in Turkey. The evaluation, intended to be utilization-based, realistic, and socially constructed with the actual stakeholders, was conducted with the teachers and students that actively participated in...

Despite the sheer reality of English used as a lingua franca in and outside L2 English classrooms, many teachers are still unaware of the concept of English as a lingua franca (ELF), which makes integration of ELF awareness into teacher education essential. This study presents an “ELF-aware” education model for pre-service teachers and analyses the...

Types of teacher questions play a crucial role in students’ foreign language development. Among teacher questions, referential questions asked to enable students to provide data not known by the teacher, express their views and exchange personal information and ideas are particularly important as they can affect students’ in-class participation and...

The ELF-aware pre-service language teacher education model in this chapter aims to raise the pre-service teachers’ awareness of ELF and ELF pedagogy through critical and interactive theory- and practice-based training. Integration of ELF into English classes is a crucial part of this model. In this activity, the teacher learners exposed to this mod...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) used as the common means of communication among speakers from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in every nook and corner of today’s global world is a dynamic social reality experienced every second on our planet by millions and millions of non-native speakers. In these interactions typically taking place i...

Teacher questions play a significant role in English classrooms since they trigger interaction and promote oral production. Among teacher questions, referential questions that seek information not known by the teacher and are asked to elicit students' personal data, feelings, and ideas are particularly important because they require self-expression...

Codeswitching is reported to be a common feature of group work in EFL classes, particularly those with learners sharing the same native language. On the other hand, there is little research on codeswitching in group work in EFL contexts. This study aims to investigate the reasons why codeswitching is employed in EFL group work interactions among le...

Academic literacy is a crucial means to read, comprehend, and reflect on academic texts. In tertiary English preparatory classes, to lay strong foundations for academic literacy, it is necessary to build a well-structured framework for academic reading instruction. One means of doing this is exploring the pedagogical views and practices of experien...

English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a recent paradigm in ELT which acknowledges non-native varieties in their own right and NNSs as having their own unique characteristics rather than assessing them against an NS benchmark. Despite the changing needs of today’s English language learners, there is little research on how to integrate ELF into pre-ser...

The research on the effects of teacher’s reading aloud versus students’ silent reading on reading comprehension in EFL contexts is limited. This study is significant as it is the first of its kind investigating the effects of teacher’s reading aloud versus students’ silent reading of an informational text on the surface and deep level reading compr...

This study combines two areas of study, namely project-based learning in English language pre-service teacher education and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) awareness. Project-based learning involves creating meaningful, real-life based outputs by engaging in research, critical and creative thinking, and interaction with the actual stakeholders. EL...

This study combines two areas of study, namely project-based learning in English language pre-service teacher education and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) awareness. Project-based learning involves creating meaningful, real-life based outputs by engaging in research, critical and creative thinking, and interaction with the actual stakeholders. EL...

This chapter aims at defining the concept of ELF-awareness in teaching and teacher education and describing how the pre-service teachers who were exposed to an ELF-aware teacher education programme integrated ELF into their lessons. We present a practical understanding of ELF-awareness in teaching and teacher education and insights into how ELF-awa...

This study investigated the intrasentential patterns of code-switching in Turkish-English bilingual discourse in L2 English classroom interactions. The patterns were structurally analyzed in terms of their consistency with two grammatical constraints, namely the Free Morpheme and the Equivalence Constraint. The findings suggested that the data were...

The role of language teacher education programs is crucial to prepare pre-service teachers to create an environment in which an English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)-aware pedagogy is applied, since it is the pre-service language teacher education programs which can primarily inform the teacher candidates about the linguistic creativity and diversity ac...

Kemaloglu, E. (2008). Project-aided language learning: gains, problems, solutions. In E. Kınsız, A. Ince & K. Demir (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Conference on the Issues & Problems of Foreign Language Education Departments (pp. 205- 219). Mugla: Mugla University.

Kemaloglu, E. (2002). A descriptive analysis of the equivalence relationships in “Usta Beni Öldürsene!” in terms of the phenomenon of authority. In B. Blackwell-Gulen, I. Boztaş & C. Veldhues (Eds.), Translation Studies in the New Millennium: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Translation and Interpreting (pp. 275-287). Ankara: Bilk...

This is a list of the conference papers I have presented. If you need any further information about the papers and/or if you have any comments or suggestions, you can contact me. Kind Regards, Elif Kemaloglu-Er