Pınar Başkan

• Doctor of Education
• Marmara University

This book addresses the issues confronting prospective or practicing English language teachers in the integration of digital technologies into their classroom practices and their students’ learning. By offering both theoretical foundations and practical insights, the book aims to provide guidance for pre-service teachers of English who have no or l...

Project-based learning through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become more important for English as a foreign language (EFL) learners and teachers these days. Therefore, national and international projects have been facilitated by the integration of technology. This study aims to investigate the perceptions of EFL teachers on e...

Purpose Social constructivism in teacher education highlights the importance of social interaction between preservice teachers (PTs) and their cooperating teachers (mentors) for effective mentoring. Mentoring relationship between PTs and mentors had to take a different path due to the pandemic when face-to-face education shifted to online education...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has caused disruptions in education in Turkey, as it has in many parts of the world. Faculties of Education that require practice teaching (practicum) are affected as well; due to the shutdown, pre-service English language teachers (PTs) are deprived of the field experience and actual classroom teaching practices...

Developing interculturally sensitive global citizens has been an educational goal for higher education institutions across Europe and Turkey. Erasmus+ is one of the most popular student mobility programs and Turkey has been part of this program since 2009 to provide Turkish students with opportunities for cultural diversity. Research, mainly conduc...

Being an interculturally competent and sensitive global citizen has been an educational goal for higher education institutions across Europe and Turkey. Erasmus+ is one of the most popular student mobility programs, and Turkey, although a non-EU member state, has been part of this program since 2009 to provide Turkish students with opportunities fo...

In late 1990s, teacher cognition has emerged as an important field of inquiry as more and more research studies have demonstrated that teachers' cognitions influence their instructional decisions and activities (Borg, 2003). In the case of pre-service teachers, their beliefs are mainly influenced by their prior experience as learners while these be...

Giriş Nitel araştırma, herhangi bir sosyal olgunun ya da bir durumun kendine özgü boyutlarını doğal ortamında tümevarımcı bir açıdan ele alan, katılımcıların duygu, düşünce ve bakış açılarını anlamak üzerine kurgula-­-nan araştırma çalışmasıdır. Çalışma ortamının doğal ortama duyarlı ol-­-ması; araştırmacıların çalışmada katılımcı, gözlemci gibi et...

Today, we are living in a world where 80% of verbal exchanges in English do not involve native speakers of English (Graddol, 1997). Besides, in interactions between people who share neither a common language nor a common culture English is used as a lingua franca. This use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) (Jenkins, Cogo and Dewey, 2011) influenc...

In recent years, the examination of the relationship between learner identity and language learning has become a focal issue. In an earlier study, Pennycook (1990) stated the need to enlarge the scope of language learning research beyond linguistics and cognitive psychology to include social dimensions of language learning. This increasing interest...

This study aims to explore whether and how Turkish prospective teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) engage in English activities outside their undergraduate courses to improve their English language abilities and their reasons for doing so. The research questions include the following: (a) Do the participants engage in out-of-class Engli...

This paper demonstrates the preliminary results of an ongoing empirical study of the use of a lexico-grammatical element, the-s suffix to third person singular verbs, in academic debates among freshman students in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University. The data are drawn from two classroom debates, a total of 96 minute...

We are living in a constantly changing world that requires people to construct and reconstruct their identities along the way. One of the factors that influence the identity of English speakers is their interconnectedness with people from other linguistic and cultural backgrounds using English as a lingua franca (ELF) (Jenkins, Cogo, & Dewey, 2011)...

Learners' out-of-class language learning activities complement and optimize their in-class activities and language learning success in general. This study aims to explore whether and how Turkish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) engage in English activities outside of classrooms to learn and practice the target language. Specifically,...

One of the key questions educational researchers investigate involves better understanding of what it means to be a teacher. Researchers in general education have identified several universal teacher characteristics that transcend various disciplines. While educational researchers agree that these characteristics are relatively consistent across di...

The present paper presents issues related with teachers' knowledge of grammatical terms. Specifically, it intended to compare knowledge of grammatical terminology of two groups of prospective teachers.

In recent years, the definition of intercultural rhetoric has expanded to include the contextual factors surrounding the text itself (Connor, 2004) as a result of contemporary studies being conducted in the field. The present study contributes to the growing body of research exploring the social and cultural context of writing in the academy by ana...

This qualitative case study examines the processes involved in the academic socialization and identity formation of two comparable doctoral students in reverse cultural and linguistic university contexts (i.e., Turkish and American). In order to better understand how they negotiate identity in new academic contexts, a communities-of- practice (COP,...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cultural dimension of foreign language education and teachers today are expected to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in their learners (Byram & Zarate, 1997). The present study aims to investigate how well informed and equipped Turkish teachers of English are in terms of ad...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cultural dimension of foreign language education, and teachers today are expected to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in their learners. Thus, the present study aims to investigate the opinions and attitudes of Turkish teachers of English on intercultural competence teachin...