Papers by mehmet a. yavuz
This study seeks to reveal the efficacy of teacher immediacy behaviours on students’ motivation a... more This study seeks to reveal the efficacy of teacher immediacy behaviours on students’ motivation according to the gender and level of proficiency of the students as the behaviours of the teacher during the learning process has an important role. The sample of the study consists of the students studying at the Preparatory Department of the School of Foreign Languages at Cyprus International University. Data was collected through the implementation of two questionnaires: The Teacher Immediacy Behaviours Questionnaire and The Student Motivation Questionnaire prepared by Aynur Kalburan Gecer. Based on their score on the Teacher Immediacy Behaviours Questionnaire, the participants were divided into two groups: Group 1 consisting of students with lower scores and Group 2 consisting of those with higher scores. The results of the data analysis revealed that there is a significant difference between the motivation scores of the two groups. The results also demonstrated that there is a signif...
This study investigates the possibility and efficacy of paper-based, in-class, data-driven learni... more This study investigates the possibility and efficacy of paper-based, in-class, data-driven learning (DDL) of academic lexical bundles below the C1 level of proficiency described by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR; advanced high ACTFL). A two-stage experimental design involving three groups (n = 41) and 24 two-to-four word academic items was implemented. First, the question of whether this type of learning works with these items below the C1 level is addressed through a nonequivalent-groups quasiexperimental design covering a five-week period. The results indicate that this technique is effective at the B2 level, but not at the A2-B1 level. Next, an equivalent-groups experimental design compares this style of learning to conventional techniques at the B2 level. The results of this stage suggest that paper-based, inclass DDL is more effective than conventional learning with academic lexical bundles at the B2 level.
This study investigates the extent to which Turkish ELT student teachers comprehend conversationa... more This study investigates the extent to which Turkish ELT student teachers comprehend conversational implicatures concerning Grice’s theory of co-operative principle (1989). The act of communication speech acts can be either direct or indirect. In the case of indirect speech acts, an addressee has to comprehend the addresser’s meaning, which means comprehending the implicature. Implicature is the meaning of the speaker’s utterance that is not part of what the speaker says. The inference of the meaning in an utterance by participants mostly depends on the contextual clues in a particular situation. The listener has to differentiate between the literal (semantic) meaning and non-literal (pragmatic) meaning. Developing ELT students’ pragmatic competence is significant for successful communication in the target language. Although there is much research into EFL pragmatic competence focusing on conversational implicatures, in the Northern Cypriot ELT context there is still a need to examin...
Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Özel Eğitim Dergisi, 2021
Bu araştırmada otizm spektrum bozukluğu (OSB), zihinsel yetersizliği (ZY) olan çocukların ebeveyn... more Bu araştırmada otizm spektrum bozukluğu (OSB), zihinsel yetersizliği (ZY) olan çocukların ebeveynlerinin yaşam doyumu ve aile yılmazlık düzeyleri incelenmiştir. Yöntem: Araştırmada ilişkisel tarama modeli kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın katılımcılarını İzmir ve Bursa illerinden 309 ebeveyn oluşturmaktadır. Veriler Aile Yılmazlık Ölçeği ve Yaşam Doyumu Ölçeği kullanılarak elde edilmiştir. Verilerin analizinde t-testi, ANOVA, Tukey HSD Testi ve Pearson korelasyon analizi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Ebeveynlerin yaşam doyumları ile ilgili değişkenlerle ilgili bulgular, annelerin, genç ebeveynlerin, geliri yüksek olanların, eğitim düzeyi yüksek olanların, çocukları ZY olan ebeveynlerin yaşam doyum düzeyleri karşılaştırıldıkları gruplara göre daha yüksek olduğunu göstermiştir. Aile yılmazlık düzeyleri, cinsiyette genel ölçek puanında, mücadelecilik, yaşama bağlılık ve kendini kontrol alt boyutlarında annelerin, öz-yetkinlik alt boyutunda genç ebeveynlerin, öz-yetkinlik alt boyutunda gelir düzeyi yüksek olanların, mücadelecilik alt boyutunda eğitim düzeyi yüksek olanların, çocuklarının yetersizlik türü değişkeninde genel ölçek puanında, mücadelecilik, öz-yetkinlik ve yaşama bağlılık alt boyutlarında ZY olan çocukların ebeveynlerinin lehine anlamlı farklılıklar gözlenmiştir. Yaşam doyumu ile aile yılmazlığı ve tüm alt boyutları arasında pozitif ilişki bulunmaktadır. Tartışma: Çalışmanın bulguları alanyazın çerçevesinde tartışılmıştır. Araştırma sonucuna göre yaşam doyumu yüksek olan bireylerin aile yılmazlık düzeylerinin de yüksek olduğu gözlenmiştir. Yaşam doyum düzeyi yüksek olan bireyler hayata daha olumlu yönleriyle bakmakta, daha az stres yaşamakta ve karşılaştıkları sorunları daha kolay aşabilmektedirler.
Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2017
The present study investigated to what extent Turkish-speaking upper-intermediate level second la... more The present study investigated to what extent Turkish-speaking upper-intermediate level second language learners of English can comprehend and produce implicatures. To this end, 90 freshman students completed a multiple-choice test, and responded to 12 situations in a discourse completion task (DCT). The participants had a moderately high level of success in the implicature comprehension test. Although the learners had considerable difficulty in comprehending understated negative criticism items, which flout the maxim of quantity, they were highly competent in comprehending relevance implicatures. The rates of success in quality and manner implicature comprehension were moderate. The participants were more successful in understanding particularized implicatures when compared to generalized implicatures. As for the production data, 70.6% of the responses contained implicatures. The mostly widely flouted maxim was the quality maxim for the purposes of creating sarcasm and achieving face management and politeness. The maxim of quality was flouted when responding to bad news or expressing anger in an unpleasant situation. When trying to express their opinions about the quality of a particular thing/person, participants tended to flout the maxim of quantity in order to avoid expressing their opinions directly, and making the referent disappointed. The participants did not tend to make use of implicatures in the case of requesting. The participants who realized requests via implicatures flouted the quantity maxim mostly. A significant correlation was not documented between participants' pragmatic production and comprehension.
EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2017
The objective of this study was to investigate the request and apology strategies of Kurdish EFL ... more The objective of this study was to investigate the request and apology strategies of Kurdish EFL undergraduate students (KEFLUS) and their linguistic and pragmatic competence in making requests and apologies. The participants were 83 KEFLUS and 14 native speakers of English (NSE). A Discourse Completion Task (DCT) and rating scale developed by the researcher were used to collect the data. After the responses were collected, the data were coded and analysed according to the taxonomy of Blum-Kulka et al. (1989) Cross-Cultural Speech Acts Realization Patterns (CCSARP) for request and the Olshtain and Cohen (1983) taxonomy for apology. Furthermore, the collected data were rated by four researchers. The results of the study revealed the differences in responses between the KEFLUS and NSE groups and between the state and private universities. However, no significant difference was found between KEFLUS males and females. Moreover, the KEFLUS responses were in general pragmatically and structurally appropriate.
Uluslararasi Kibris Universitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakultesi, 2019
Bu calismada Ingilizce Ogretmenligi bolumune devam eden ogrencilerinin Ingilizce dilinde sezdiril... more Bu calismada Ingilizce Ogretmenligi bolumune devam eden ogrencilerinin Ingilizce dilinde sezdirileri uretme becerileri arastirilmistir. Calismaya, bolume birinci, ikinci ve ucuncu sinifta devam eden 88 ogrenci katilmistir. Calismaya katilim gonulluluk esasina dayanmaktaidi. Katilimcilara 12 durum iceren sezdiri uretme olcegi verilmistir. Bu durumlar, sikayet bildirme, istek bildirme, kizginlik bildirme, elestirme gibi konular icermektedir. Katilimcilara bu ifadeleri direk olarak degil, sezdiri yolu ile nasil ifade edebilecekleri soruldu. Veriler toplandiktan sonra her bir katilimcidan alinan olcek notlandi ve her bir katilimci icin toplan olcek puani cikarilmistir. Veri SPSS programi araciligi ile yas, cinsiyet ve bolume devem ettigi yil gibi faktorler acisindan incelendi. Bulgular katilimcilarin sezdiri anlama becerilerinin genel olarak orta duzeyde oldugunu gosterdi. Kadinlar sezdirileri genel olarak daha iyi ifade ederken, erkekler daha cok direk ifadeler kullandilar. Bu sonuc se...
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