Tarik UzunAnkara Yildirim Beyazit University | AYBU
Tarik Uzun
Doctor of Philosophy
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July 2012 - March 2018
Education
September 2013 - January 2019
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Publications (27)
The goal of this teaching tip is to present an introduction to teaching basic final intonation patterns in statements, interrogative forms, and question tags with a drama method called Glottodrama. With its five-step course of action, Glottodrama is a practical method to integrate drama into the teaching of foreign languages (Nofri, 2009). This pap...
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Language teachers' beliefs and attitudes about various aspects of teaching are shaped during teacher education. Investigating preservice English teachers' (PrETs) perspectives on certain areas can be useful in better understanding the dynamics of teacher education and taking further actions on teachers' developmental processes. This study...
This study is aimed at investigating the Interlanguage Speech Intelligibility Benefit (ISIB) via native English and Turkish listeners' transcriptions of Turkish talkers' words with pronunciation errors in English. Speech samples collected from talkers with a Turkish L1 background (N=16) were presented to 33 L1 English and 33 L1 Turkish listeners vi...
Intelligibility is a critically important aspect for effective oral communication. This study explored salient (important) pronunciation errors and their relative roles in the intelligibility of nonnative speech based on listener judgments. Speech samples, collected from speakers with a Turkish as a native language (L1) background, were presented t...
The international online conference of Self-Directed Learning and Advising in Language Education brought together researchers and teachers from around the world, and several preservice English teachers were among the participants in this international event. This paper aims to present preservice English teacher participants’ impressions on attendin...
The global pandemic forced educational institutions worldwide to adapt to a new, fully online concept of education and a rapid digitalization to keep providing their services to learners. This paper reports on the digitalization process of the Independent Learning Center (ILC) and the Learning Advisory Program (LAP) unit at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit...
Welcome to the special issue on self-access and the coronavirus pandemic. When we first had the idea to compile this special issue back in March 2020, we did so, not knowing how the year would pan out. Some parts of the world had already been severely impacted by the coronavirus, but others hardly touched. Many students and academics in various cou...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the comprehensibility of Turkish native speakers in spoken English. To this end, 16 preservice English teachers enrolled in the English Language Teaching (ELT) programs of two state universities provided speech stimuli on three speaker tasks: read aloud, picture description and responding to a real-life...
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Bu doktora tez çalışması, Türkçe anadili konuşucularının İngilizce sesletim sorunlarını anlaşılabilirlik olgusu çerçevesinde araştırmayı hedeflemiştir. Türkiye’deki iki devlet üniversitesinin İngilizce Öğretmenliği bölümlerinde öğrenim gören Türkçe anadili konuşucularından üç farklı görev eşliğinde ses kayıtları toplanmış, daha sonra bu kayıtl...
The goal of this study is to investigate pre-service English teachers’ views, needs and preferences about learning and teaching pronunciation. Using mixed-method approach, data have been collected through a questionnaire (N=147) and additional face-to-face interviews (N=5) with prospective English teachers enrolled in an English Language Teaching (...
Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) and Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University
(AYBU) are collaborating on a learning advisory education program consisting of the
modules of Getting Started, Going Deeper, Becoming Aware and Transformation. This
training has been made possible with support from the 3934 BAP (Scientific Research Fund)
at AYB...
In Turkey, in order to become an English teacher one must have a bachelor's degree from a variety of language-related departments. Considering that the variety of departments' syllabuses at instruction in such departments is based heavily on specific fields, language proficiency and attitudes of their graduates towards the language turns into a que...
Learning Advisory Program (LAP) was launched at Yıldırım Beyazıt University School of
Foreign Languages in the 2015-2016 academic year. The LAP, under the guidance of the
instructors and advisors at the Independent Learning Centre (ILC), was planned to be used
initially with students of a specific profile, composed of low-achieving, unmotivated stu...
Many institutions have developed their own Self-Access Centres with a broader aim of
fostering autonomous learning (McMurry et al., 2011). They help increase students’
opportunities to reach resources of various kinds and assist them on the road to taking
responsibility for their own learning (Benson, 2011). Some of these centres offer their
studen...
Learning style research has been a significant field within language teaching and learning. There have been very few attempts, however, to seek possible links between independent learning and learning style preferences. This paper aims to identify the learning styles of students who use the Independent Learning Centre (ILC) on a regular basis at a...
Independent Learning Centres (Self-Access Centres) have become an essential component in language teaching institutions to aid learning and foster autonomous learning behaviour. To reach these goals, it is vital to 'listen to the people' in the target group. The efforts made and services offered need to be analysed systematically in each centre and...
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Yabancı dil öğrenme süreçlerinde, öğrenici merkezliliği özünde barındıran, öğrenici özerkliği ve bağımsız öğrenme gibi kavramların uygulamadaki en somut yansımalarından biri, bağımsız öğrenme merkezleridir. Ülkemizde özellikle yükseköğretim kurumlarında oluşturulan bu merkezler temel olarak, hedef kitlesinde yer alan öğrencileri bağımsız birer...
Metaphor analysis is considered to be a fruitful line of inquiry deserving more attention and application in foreign language instruction. However, the research examining linguistic metaphors used by foreign language learners, especially those learning less common languages, is almost non existent. The purpose of this study was to investigate the m...
Bu çalışmanın amacı, hikâye anlatımı gibi sosyal bir süreci kullanarak ilköğretimde okuyan İngilizce öğrencilerinin bu uygulamayla ilgili tutumlarının gözlemlenmesi ve hikâye anlatımının üç-aşamalı motivasyon modeline uygun olup olmadığının saptanmasıdır. Bu çalışmada ortaya çıkan bulgulardan bir tanesi öğrencilerin motivasyonunun bir ders boyunca...
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Projects (2)
Learning Advisory Program (LAP) was first initiated in 2015 at Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University School of Foreign Languages. With a broader goal of assisting learners on the road to becoming independent learners, we offer free and customizable learning support to the learners of English through individual advising sessions. Advising sessions are booked at the Independent Learning Centre (ILC). The academic and practical aspects of the program are being investigated and developed.
