Ismail hakkı Erten

Ismail hakkı Erten
Hacettepe University · Department of English Language Teaching

PhD, University of Exeter, UK

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September 2016 - December 2016
Hacettepe University
Position
  • Professor (Full)
September 2013 - present
Hacettepe University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
October 2010 - September 2013
University of Exeter
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language
Education
October 1993 - May 1998
University of Exeter
Field of study
  • ELT
September 1992 - August 1993
Bilkent University
Field of study
  • ELT
September 1985 - July 1989
Atatürk University
Field of study
  • ELT

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Publications (62)
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The present study aimed to investigate Turkish EFL learners’ perceived levels of willingness to communicate (WTC) in English inside and outside the classroom. The study also aimed to explore whether there is a statistically significant difference between their in-class WTC in English and out-of-class WTC in English. The study, which employed a quan...
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This research holds substantial scholarly importance in understanding the intricate interplay between EFL learners' motivation and emotion. Utilizing a complex dynamic systems framework, this research systematically investigates the fluctuation patterns and factors that influence variations in motivation and emotion within the tertiary educational...
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The present study aimed to investigate the cross-linguistic effect of L1 vocabulary, reading motivation and habits on L2 vocabulary, reading motivation and habits. In this respect, proposing a model, the study aims to contribute to foreign language education and research. The data was collected through vocabulary size tests, reading motivational sc...
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Building upon the interrelationship between learning and changing, this study investigates how cyclical engagement in reflexive practice influences the teachers’ professional development. We implemented our video-enhanced ‘Reflexive Practice Triplication Model’ which we developed in our specific context. We conducted the research with 8 secondary s...
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teacher education, self-efficacy- teaching practice
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This study focuses on student teachers' attributions for their oral presentations.
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This study examines whether learners’ (high vs. low) ‘ideal L2 self’ exerts an effect on causal attributions and which of these causal attributions could predict future L2 achievement. To this end, 1006 EFL students were invited from a state university in Ankara, Turkey. The data were collected with an attribution scale composed of 29 questions and...
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This paper presents the results of an eight-week quasi-experimental study of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at the tertiary level in Turkey. The purpose of the study was to reveal the extent to which EFL learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC) was enhanced as a result of communication with native and non-native speakers...
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The present study explored the probable interrelationships between willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC), ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, L2 learning experience, imagery capacity, L2 motivation, L2 anxiety, vocabulary size, and course achievement through path analysis. This quantitative study was carried out with 701 English as...
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The current study set out to build on the limited research on possible language teacher selves. The study aimed to develop a possible language teacher selves scale (PLTSS) for English as a foreign language (EFL) student teachers. The tripartite scale intending to measure the constructs of ideal, ought-to and feared language teacher selves was devel...
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Causal attribution theory has attracted the attention of the scholars recently as it has a pivotal role in learners’ motivated behaviour and effort for their future learning experiences. According to this theory, learners’ perceived cause of their academic performances can be based on locus of control, controllability or stability. In this way, it...
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Attribution Retraining (AR) has been proposed to convert learners’ maladap�tive causal attributions into adaptive ones making them more motivated to put effort for themselves in the future. Haynes, Perry, Stupnisky, and Daniels (2009) model has been implemented in very rare studies lacking reliable and valid scales in the language learning field...
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This study aims to examine English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ perceptions of the factors influencing their in-class willingness to communicate (WTC) in English. Having been selected through criterion sampling method, the participants consisted of 32 undergraduate EFL learners who took the English course at Balıkesir University in Balıkes...
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This entry aims to illustrate the relationship between knowledge of vocabulary and reading comprehension and the role of vocabulary in teaching reading. It first attempts to define relevant concepts pertaining to the relationship between the two constructs. It then explores how reading comprehension is related to breadth and depth of vocabulary kno...
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This entry aims to outline the place of background knowledge and its activation in the process of reading in a second language. The entry first attempts to define and place the concept of background knowledge in the framework of reading comprehension. It then explores how background knowledge is activated and the possible effects of activated prior...
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Lexical relations have been one of the issues that draw a great deal of attention in vocabulary instruction as they can facilitate and inhibit learning in different ways, the central focus of this entry. However, whether vocabulary items carrying lexical relationship should be presented together as a group or as individual words in respective conte...
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Getting to understand patterns and causes of motivational changes experienced by language learners while studying a foreign language can be of significant value. This paper aims to explore patterns of such fluctuations at the tertiary level. Through a dynamic systems perspective, this study employed Retrodictive Qualitative Modelling to generate th...
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Description As new trends emerge in the realm of education, instructors are faced with the task of continuing development in order to stay up to date on the latest teaching methodologies for both virtual and face-to-face education. Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development is a pivotal reference source for the latest re...
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Research Papers on Teaching English as an Additional Language is a collection of research articles covering different perspectives and research findings on various aspects of learning English in a number of different contexts. This edited collection of articles comes from a successful international collaboration and aims to bring together research...
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This study sought to elucidate how female and male learners of English tend to explain their achievement in their English classes. The study also investigated whether age exerts an impact on to what achievement in English is ascribed. To do this, a composite instrument was administered to a total of 578 learners (Mean age = 14.33, SD = 2.08) of Eng...
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This paper reports on findings from a small scale preliminary study that sought to explore how practising teachers feel about their university education they received as part of their training as teachers of English. To do this, a web-based self-report survey form was administered to 49 practising Turkish teachers of English (mean length of experie...
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Karaoke is an exciting pastime in many cultures. Karaoke singers are expected to sing along melodies of songs and keep up with the lyrics that run at the bottom of the monitor. In this sense, it involves both linguistic processing and language articulation, and thus offers itself for potential use in foreign language classrooms. However, there appe...
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This paper reports on findings from a small scale preliminary study that sought to explore how practising teachers feel about their university education they received as part of their training as teachers of English. To do this, a web-based self-report survey form was administered to 49 practising Turkish teachers of English (mean length of experie...
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This study aims to explore the construct structure of the Turkish version of the Myself-As-A-Learner Scale (MALS), which was designed to measure academic self-concept. A translated version of MALS was administered to 483 participants (mean age = 14.31, SD = 2.08) in six different cities across Turkey. An exploratory factor analysis revealed a five-...
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Using different tools of data collection often leads to controversial results as to what constitutes the best attractor to teaching as a profession. Quantitative survey studies report altruistic reasons as the prevailing factors whereas qualitative studies highlight intrinsic and extrinsic reasons with a possible link to a social desirability bias...
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This study sought to understand how students in Turkish grammar classes at three state high schools in Turkey perceive their teachers and the classroom interaction. A total of 142 students were asked to form metaphorical expressions to describe their teachers. A total of 124 metaphors were produced, an examination of which revealed that almost half...
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This study sought to explore the interactions between academic motivation and academic achievement. Academic Motivation Scale (Vallerand et al., 1992) was administered to 256 English Language Teaching department students at a major state university in Ankara, Turkey. Academic achievement was measured through participants’ GPA. The statistical analy...
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This study explores the relationship between academic self-concept, classroom test performance, and causal attribution for achievement among Turkish students. 267 Year 6 students from six different cities in Turkey participated in the study. Academic self-concept was measured by means of the Myself-As-a-Learner Scale (MALS) while attributions were...
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This study investigates the relationship between academic self-concept (ASC) and first term marks of sixth grade students from their Turkish course. 74 students from two state primary schools in Turkey participated in this self-report survey study. ASC was assessed through a Turkish version of MyselfAs-a-Learner Scale (MALS) (Burden, 2012) while a...
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The present study investigated communication strategies employed by Turkish EFL learners and aimed at revealing the relationship between language proficiency and the use of communication strategies. An interaction-based methodology was used in which 17 pairs at different proficiency levels were asked to negotiate on two short movies and stimulate...
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This article introduces an instrument that has been developed to explore motivation and attitudes of students towards reading in a foreign language (FL). To develop the instrument, initially 123 students were asked a set of qualitative questions to determine their affective reactions to reading in a FL. A content analysis of emergent data yielded a...
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This study seeks to explain prevalent gender differences in academic achievement of 84 third‐year students enrolled in a pre‐service ELT (English Language Teaching) teacher training department. The study collected both qualitative and quantitative data through semi‐structured interviews from a sample of 38 students. A content analysis of the data i...
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This study investigated whether cultural familiarity influences comprehension of short stories and whether nativizing the story or using reading activities can compensate for the lack of such familiarity. The study was conducted with 44 advanced-level students of English at a state university in Turkey. In a 2 × 2 experimental research design, the...
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This article reports on an investigation that compared the effects of task-based and topic-based speaking activities on student interaction and collaboration in EFL speaking classes. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in a classroom setting, with trainee teachers of English (n=25) with an average upper-intermediate level of English proficienc...
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This study aimed to explore tolerance of ambiguity (AT) of a group of tertiary level Turkish EFL learners at a state university in Turkey. To do this, 188 preparation year students were administered a Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale with some demographic questions. Statistical analysis indicated students on average have lower tolerance...
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This study aims to compare the appropriateness of two statistical procedures for measuring the effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies: percentages and correlation coefficients. To do this a group of 20 learners of English were asked to study 12 words in a written list, with their pronunciations, dictionary definitions, and example sentence...
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This paper reports on a study which investigated the effect on vocabulary recall of introducing new words via two different methods. A one-group quasi-experimental research design with alternating time series measures was employed. A group of 60 fourth graders were taught 80 carefully selected words either in semantically related sets or semantical...
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This study aims at understanding how the use of different reading activities affects readers’ comprehension of short stories. Forty-seven students with an advanced level of English proficiency participated in the study where a quasi-experimental research design was pursued. The experimental and control groups of students completed different sets of...
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Edebî metinleri kullanarak yabancı dil öğretmek yeni bir olgu değildir. Edebî metinlerle yabancı dil öğrenmenin öğrenilen dilin edebiyatını ve o dili konuşan toplumun kültürünü öğrenmeye yararı vardır. Konuşulan dilin kültürünü bilmek doğal olarak iletişimsel yetimize de katkıda bulunur. Bununla birlikte, her edebî eser yalın bir dil metnidir ve di...
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ZET: Bu makale, öğrencilerin yabancı dilde okumaya karşı motivasyon ve tutumlarını araştırmak için geliştiren bir aracı tanıtmaktadır. Aracı geliştirmek için öncelikle, 123 öğrenciye yabancı dilde okumaya karşı duyuşsal tepkilerini tespit etmeye yönelik bir dizi açık uçlu soru sorulmuştur. Elde edilen nitel verinin içerik analizi, 51 soruluk bir ön...

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