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Prospective English language teachers’ perceptions towards a new paradigm in foreign language education: Flipped classroom model
Get PDFA current pedagogic approach is ‘‘Flipped classroom model’ which depends on the use of asynchronous video lectures and practice problems as homework at home, and active, group-based problem solving activities in the classroom. As a new paradigm in educational settings, flipped classroom model promotes student engagement and active learning with an emphasis on the development of problem solving skills and discovery-based learning. However, the role of flipped classroom model in foreign language teaching remains relatively unexplored in literature. In the present study, we aimed to take traditional lecture instruction one step further and integrated flipped classroom model into “Advanced Reading and Writing” course. In this context, a special website was designed to teach advanced reading and writing skills through videos and power point presentations at home, while students made practice in the classroom with the guidance of the teacher. With an aim to shed light on prospective English language teachers’ perceptions towards the use of flipped classroom model in language teaching, we carried out semi-structured interviews with 30 participants studying at English Language Teaching department at a university in Turkey. The results suggest that the flipped model has the potential to bring radical changes to language teaching and learning practices in future.
Keywords: Prospective English Language Teachers, Flipped Classroom Model, Foreign Language Educatio
USING DATABASE AUDIT FOR ANALYZING ON HISTORICAL DATA
Get PDFAbstract: Database auditing is one of the biggest issues in data security. Absence
of information auditing drives the business applications to the lost trail of business
procedures. To cope with auditing and in order to track operations and the actors of
those operations in time, we need historical data or temporary database. Legitimate
and exchange times are two important time-stamps in temporary database. In this
paper, we show the methods to handle database auditing in business exchange
operations, accurate times, and performers of the operations. These strategies
are separated in two sets; utilizing relational databases, and utilizing semi-structured
information
Public Procurement System in Service of Strengthening the Market Economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Get PDFAbstract: Although the public procurement system in Bosnia and Herzegovina is represented the area of the legal profession because it is defined by laws and regulations, it is actually more important for economists and all public officials in the country. The subject of this work is theoretical. and practical aspects of applying the transparency to the system of public procurement in the context of strengthening market competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the market economy in general. The special significance of this work lies in the fact that for the first time, research methods were applied to reveal the market strength of the contracting authorities (buyers) and market competition among suppliers (sellers) in the public procurement market in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as measured by their market shares. Based on such findings, the relations of market strength of contracting authorities and the level of development of competition on the public procurement market in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 2010 to 2012 was examined in terms of choosing more or less transparent procurement procedures.
Keywords:public procurement system, transparency, market competition
THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG PERSONAL BACKGROUND, PERSONALITY TRAITS, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL INTENTION OF WOMEN IN NORTHERN MONTENEGRO
Get PDFAbstract: Entrepreneurs are imperative for the long-term economic growth of every
country. Researchers are trying to explain how important entrepreneurial intention is
by taking different factors in considerations. This paper will discuss three most important
groups of factors affecting entrepreneurial intention of unemployed women in the north
of Montenegro. Based on literature review, those factors are personal background,
personality traits and environmental groups of factors. In this study, focus will be on
four factors from each group which are perceived as most important according to
researchers. The study will provide new framework in this field. The main research focus
will be on women since majority of unemployed people in the north of the country is
women whose small proportion is entrepreneur
A STUDY ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE READING STRATEGY TYPES USED BY STUDENTS
No full textThis study is conducted in order to investigate the generic awareness of reading strategy use of
students and state the types of reading strategies used by them while performing a reading task. The
students responded to a 45-item scale that included three categories of reading strategies; before, during and
after. The findings obtained in this study indicated that the overall usage-level of the designated reading
strategies were at a medium frequency-level; therefore, it revealed that the students use the designated
strategies but not necessarily enough. On the other hand, the overall frequency of before-reading strategy
use was found to be highest among three categories, so it indicated that the students are generally conscious
of their comprehension process and they are planned before performing a reading task.
Keywords: Reading, Reading Comprehension, Awareness of Reading Strateg
YABANCILARA TÜRKÇE ÖĞRETİMİNDE DEVRİK CÜMLE KULLANIMININ İŞLEVSELLİĞİ
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Yabancılara Türkçe öğretiminin tarihi çok eski yıllara dayanmaktadır ve bu alanda kullanılan kaynaklar günümüze kadar varlığını devam ettirmiştir. İletişimin hızla yayılmasıyla birlikte ilişkilerin hız kazandığı şu dönemde ana dilin haricinde diğer dillerin öğrenilmesi de zaruri hale gelmektedir. Bu da yabancı dil öğretiminin ehemmiyetini öne çıkarmaktadır. Bu çalışmada yabancılara Türkçe öğretiminde kullanılan yöntemler belirlendikten sonra dil bilgisi öğretiminde uygulanan devrik cümle kullanımın dil öğretimine olumlu ve olumsuz yönleri ele alınmıştır. Türk dilinin geleneksel yapısına baktığımızda devrik cümle konusuna fazla değinilmediğini görmekteyiz. Yabancılara Türkçe öğretiminde de devrik cümlenin üzerinde fazla durulmamaktadır. Çalışma, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden tarama modeli kullanılarak incelenmiştir. Bu çalışmada yabancılara Türkçe öğretiminde ders kitabı olarak kullanılan “Yeni Hitit 2 Ders ve Çalışma” kitapları taranarak örnek metinlerde geçen devrik cümleler tespit edilmiştir. Buna bağlı olarak devrik cümlenin yabancılara Türkçe öğretimindeki işlevselliği ve gerekliliği üzerinde tespitlerde bulunulacaktır. Sonuç olarak incelediğimiz Yeni Hitit 2 Ders ve Çalışma kitaplarında 142 devrik cümle bulunmaktadır. Bu devrik cümleler genellikle cümledeki anlamı öne çıkarmak ve güçlendirmek maksadıyla kullanılmıştır. Daha çok okuma metinlerindeki devrik cümleler diyaloglarda ve konuşmalarda görülmektedir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi, Cümle Çeşitleri, Devrik Cüml
Motivation versus age variable in secondary-school learners of English language
Get PDFMotivation is probably the most important factor for successful learning of any kind. This paper will attempt to explore the process of motivation for English language learning in secondary school learners considering the variable of age - its application or lack of it through the learning process itself, relevant factors which affect students, teacher’s role, the influence of parents, peers, and the environment, and to prove the hypotheses that a) motivation changes and decreases with the change of age in secondary school learners; and b) extrinsic motivation is more present than intrinsic motivation at secondary school level. This research problem will be examined through the method of questionnaire on the sample of 100 respondents – secondary school students (from first grade up to the fourth grade) of High Commercial School in Travnik. The paper will also attempt to discuss the types of motivation, types of learners, learners’ age, environment etc. and other learners’ variables, both through the recent theoretical studies regarding motivation in general (a detailed description of sources, characteristics and types of motivation), and, also, it will try to present a practical sample research of a decrease in motivation that starts at the upper-primary level and tends to decrease through the secondary level.
Key words: Motivation, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, language learners, age variabl
The importance of being critical – Polish EFL teachers' beliefs and practices
No full textSooner or later, countries like Poland will have to welcome immigrants from the Middle East and successfully communicate with the immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. I would like to argue that critical cultural awareness proves to be a cornerstone of the model of Intercultural Communicative Competence (Byram, 1997) and should be considered a prerequisite for developing the rest of the components comprising the model. The main aim of the present research paper is to investigate, analyse and discuss Polish EFL teachers' beliefs on the idea of including critical cultural awareness, a crucial component of intercultural competence, in the EFL lessons, teachers' teaching practices with reference to developing particular elements of intercultural competence in the EFL lessons and the possible discrepancies between their beliefs and practices. A questionnaire administered to 125 Polish EFL teachers and a case study of three practitioners, who were observed, interviewed and confronted in a focus-group discussion, were used to collect the relevant data. The results of my research study suggest that a lot of Polish EFL teachers declare that they consider Byram's intercultural communicative competence model (Byram 1997) relevant to foreign language teaching and learning in the present-day and seem to be willing to implement it in their lessons, yet many of those teachers appear not to prioritize intercultural competence in their teaching practice. This apparent discrepancy between language teachers' beliefs and their practices may stem from teachers' lack of sufficient intercultural training during their professional education. A need for implementing critical cultural awareness into the pre-service teacher trainings was identified.
Keywords: intercultural competence, critical cultural awareness, EFL teaching and learnin