• Changing teaching, changing teachers: 21st century teaching and learning through lesson and learning study 

  Uştuk, Özgehan (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2022)

  This book is a recent addition to the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS)–Routledge Lesson Study book series and a great contribution to the growing lesson and learning studies scholarship. The book is designed ...

• Maurice: Through the lenses of Lacanian “mirror, mirror, on the wall…” 

  Can, Dilek Tüfekçi (Namık Kemal Üniversitesi, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Dekanlığı, 2021)

  Maurice, a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster, revolves around the theme ofhomosexuality. By presenting homosexual characters, who are on a futile quest fortheir actual identity, Forster attempts to be the voice of the ...

• Analyse des erreurs issues de la conjugaison des verbes chez les apprenants en classe préparatoire de français 

  Arslan, Nahide; Baştürk, Mehmet (Balıkesir Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2021)

  La conjugaison des verbes en français exprimant un processus pose un grandproblème, du moins pour les apprenants dont la première langue acquise diffère fortementde celle qu’ils apprennent. Le français -langue cible pour ...

• “I’ve decided to become an english teacher”: Pre-service EFL teachers’ reasons for choosing teaching as a career 

  Başöz, Tutku (Halil İbrahim AKYÜZ, 2021)

  Purpose: The present study aimed to probe pre-service EFL teachers’ reasons for choosing teaching as a field of study and future career in the under-researched context of Turkey. The variance in their career motivations ...

• Exploring motivational surges among tertiary level L2 learners: Directed motivational currents in focus 

  Gümüş, Özge; Başöz, Tutku (Editorial Board TESL - EJ, 2021)

  This study adds new empirical evidence on how commonly the Directed Motivational Current (DMC) phenomenon is recognized and experienced among tertiary level L2 learners. This study also investigated DMC manifestations ...

• “Not me with my American flag”: Transnational teachers' trajectories of language teacher socialization 

  Uştuk, Özgehan (TESL - EJ Publications, 2021)

  As language teachers move across countries with the rise of professional transnationalism, the need for investigating language teacher socialization in new academic cultures has also emerged. Accordingly, this paper explores ...

• Difficulties in collecting data from children aged 7-12 

  Aydın, Selami; Harputlu, Leyla; Uştuk, Özgehan; Çelik, Şeyda Savran; Güzel, Serhat (IGI Global, 2021)

  Collecting data from children who learn a foreign language is a complex and problematic area when considering their lack of proficiency in the target language and their cognitive, psychological, and social development. In ...

• Reflexive professional development in reflective practice: What lesson study can offer 

  Uştuk, Özgehan; Çomoglu, İrem (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2021)

  Purpose – In response to the top-down professional development (PD) practice, this study conceptualizes lesson study (LS) as a bottom-up approach to foreign language teacher PD in the Turkish context. Relatedly, the authors ...

• From robot to rejuvenating warrior: An EFL learner's conceptual metaphors during school transition 

  Uştuk, Özgehan (Nova Southeastern Univ, 2021)

  Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory, I investigated the school transition experience of an English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. In this narrative case study, the participant’s emotion labor was followed throughout ...

• Howards end: Through the lenses of Bourdieusian capital theory under the guise of modernism 

  Can, Dilek Tüfekçi (Kafkas Üniversitesi, 2020)

  E. M. Forster’s novel “Howards End” implicitly employs Pierre Bourdieu’s capital theory with its concepts such as economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital by endowing its characters with different culturally ...

• A descriptive study on foreign language teaching anxiety 

  Aydın, Selami; Uştuk, Özgehan (Directory of Open Access Journals, 2020)

  Anxiety is one of the most commonly investigated topics in the field of foreign language education; however, foreign language anxiety is attributed to learners extensively even though most teachers suffer from high levels ...

• The foreign language teaching anxiety scale: Preliminary tests of validity and reliability 

  Aydın, Selami; Uştuk, Özgehan (Natl Research Univ Higher Sch Economics, 2020)

  Although anxiety in the foreign language learning context has been studied extensively, the anxiety experienced by foreign language teachers, who are important stakeholders of classroom contexts and language learners ...

• Reflection as meta-action: Lesson study and EFL teacher professional development 

  Uştuk, Özgehan; De Costa, Peter I. (Wiley, 2020)

  This article explores the nature of reflective practice in a professional development process based on lesson study. The authors examine how a lesson study model initiates reflection as a meta-action scaffolding reflective ...

• Putting process drama in practice with TBLT principles: TESOL in action 

  Uştuk, Özgehan; Van Gorp, Koen (Wiley, 2020)

  Approximately five decades ago, Lindsay (1974) voiced clear criticism about a common problem in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL). Lindsay argued that “we often teach language as if it were an isolated phenomenon ...

• A qualitative research on portfolio keeping in english as a foreign language writing 

  Aydın, Selami (2011)

  Little attention has been paid to the problems about portfolio keeping in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing, while the existing literature mostly focuses on the effects of portfolios on writing skills of learners, ...

• Internet Anxiety among Foreign Language Learners 

  Aydın, Selami (2011)

  Little attention has been paid to the demotivating potential of new technologies in foreign language research. Thus, this study aims to investigate Internet anxiety among foreign language learners and to determine the ...

• Does recreational reading in native language influence foreign language learning process? 

  Aydın, Selami (2011)

  Limited studies have been conducted on the effects on recreational reading in native language on foreign language learning, whereas no findings exist on the effects of recreational reading in Turkish as a native language ...

• The effects of young EFL learners' perceptions of tests on test anxiety 

  Aydın, Selami (2012)

  Studies conducted so far have mainly focused on the relationships between perceptions of tests and test anxiety among adult foreign language learners, while there is a lack of research focusing on young learners on the ...

• Teachers' perceptions about the use of computers in EFL teaching and learning: The case of Turkey 

  Aydın, Selami (Routledge Journals, 2013)

  While research mainly focuses on the effectiveness of computer use and its contribution to the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL), EFL teachers have received scant attention. Only a limited number of studies ...

• Second life as a foreign language learning environment: A review of research 

  Aydın, Selami (2013)

  The purpose of this paper is to present a review of research on Second Life (SL) as a learning environment within English as a foreign language (EFL) context, as research on its use within EFL learning is relatively new. ...

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