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Corpora are either used directly by language instructors to teach a particular aspect of language or indirectly to design materials for language teaching. They are also used to build language assessment material or assess student writings. Reference corpora, consisting of texts by native speakers of English, are particularly preferred over speciali...
Recent technological developments enable (semi) automatic and more reliable annotation of learner corpora, and these corpora have the potential to guide material designers, language instructors and assessors. Current trends in learner corpus research show that its integration with natural language processing techniques can yield more powerful and p...
Research studies investigating learner errors show that language teachers consider lexical errors to be the most significant infelicities in student writing. They are particularly important because the existence and frequency of these errors is most likely to create a communication breakdown in written production. The systematic investigation of th...
The poetry of the First World War bears poignant testimony to the unprecedented tragedies of human destructiveness. It has been the subject of numerous studies that looked at it from diverse perspectives, drawing from various contemporary psychological, historical, and literary theories. The present study can be regarded as yet another contribution...
Steven Berkoff is one of the living legends of British theatre. He has spent most of his adult life on stage. He has written, directed and acted in numerous plays. He has also appeared in many well-known movies, such as A Clockwork Orange (1971), Rambo (1985) and Underworld (1985). In spite of his multifaceted international career, little scholarly...
Modernist British fiction has been customarily associated with a small group of authors, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Samuel Beckett and their experimental works. This highly exclusive view of modernism largely overshadowed the place and legacy of Ford Madox Ford, along with some of his contemporaries, in the history of...
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We are two language and literature enthusiasts based in Ankara aiming to employ corpus methods in our research. We have recently published a paper in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158519300402) where we investigated the use of self-mention markers in the doctoral dissertations o...
In recent decades, the traditional perception of academic writing as an objective and impersonal endeavour solely devoted to conveying factual information has given way to a view that sees it as an interactional enterprise laden with personal preferences and cultural influences. With this shift in the understanding of the nature of academic writing...
Ekoeleştirinin tarihsel gelişimi ve temel savları üzerine kısa bir yazı.
This collection of essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has...
Historiography has been one of the central issues of postcolonial studies. The dismantling of British colonies after the Second World War encouraged a vast body of new literatures in which the Western literary modes, particularly the novel, were aptly adapted to represent the distinctive cultural and national identities of the former colonies. In t...
Two opposing theories, namely absolutism and contractualism, dominated the political scene in England in the seventeenth century. The father as the symbol of absolute authority, in particular, found ample representations in the political writing of this period since the proponents of absolute rule theorised on hierarchies of power by repeatedly dra...
This study delineates the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). It first tr...
In the aftermath of the Great War, the experimental ferment of modernism that dominated the first two decades of the twentieth century gradually faded, leaving its place to more conventional narratives with socio-political themes. The devastation and dislocation caused by the war led modernist writers to leave aside their aesthetic concerns and rec...
Literary periods and groups have provided the literary historian with a practical instrument to divide and subdivide the great history of literature into more manageable and comprehensible units. Yet, literary periods and groups may also entail certain problems, particularly about group identity. The Movement, which, from its uncertain beginnings i...
Taner Can explores the prevailing problems of literary periodisation and canon formation in the history of English literary modernism. In his comprehensive survey of the development of modernist literary studies, he demonstrates that the current conception of English literary modernism and its established historical accounts are largely dominated b...
War poetry, particularly the poems scribed in the trenches - the burning centre
of the combat, generally has a dark and sombre tone as it speaks of violence,
bloodshed and death. Psychologically devastated by the appalling experience of the
trench warfare, the war poet occupies the liminal space between life and death. He
sometimes imagines himself...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is swiftly and substantially changing the way we teach. We all became virtual teachers overnight and began delivering lectures via zoom or some other online communication tools. Now that it is impossible for us to carry on with conventional methods of assessment, we also need to find some novel ways to assess students’ performance. That is how I came up with the idea of a creative writing project, "Pandemic Narratives." We all know how isolation helps boost creativity thanks to Boccaccio’s The Decameron. Now, I will ask my students to work individually and write a short story, a poem or a one-act play to reflect their experience during the COVID-19 isolation days. This project will replace a group project that I assigned in my “Introduction to Fiction” course. Have you made any changes in your assessment methods due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What do you think are the most effective methods of assessment for distance education? Please post your views and suggestions here.
