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Foreign Language Teaching: A Problem in Turkish Education

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractOne of the functions of Turkish Educational system is to prepare enough and qualified manpower, required by economics. In order to be able to open the ways for this qualified manpower, for economic and social improvement and change, it became more important to know even more than one foreign language.
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Ducks across the pond ‐ challenges and opportunities for collaboration between North America and Europe

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Abstract Many waterfowl species and closely related congeners are shared across the Holarctic, and are culturally and economically important in both North America and Europe. Accordingly, both continents have developed science and management frameworks in an attempt to establish evidence‐based conservation practices for this guild of birds.
Kevin M. Ringelman, Céline Arzel, Tom C. Cameron, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Pär Söderquist, Iben Hove Sørensen, Matthieu Guillemain   +7 more
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS ON TEACHING TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken / Journal of World of Turks, 2021
Language functions can be defined as humane purpose of language usage and the act occurring from language usage. Teaching a foreign language that aims to prepare the students to form communication in the target language focuses on language functions from 1970s to today.
Kemalettin DENİZ, Yunus Emre ÇEKİCİ
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Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In corporate graduate recruitment worldwide, candidates are often assessed not only on competence but on whether they are deemed relatable. This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we identify five interlinked processes of self‐presentation,
Sifiso Mthembu, Kurt April, Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F. Özbilgin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Phenomenological Study on the Difficulties of Ukrainian Immigrants in Learning Languages

International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research
Individuals or groups are forcibly displaced due to economic problems, wars, terrorism, political conflicts, and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or religion.
Serdar Yavuz, Gülşah Yalçın
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Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

Criminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural vocabulary in teaching Turkish as a foreign language

Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study aims at specifying cultural words in teaching Turkish as a foreign language according to their proficiency levels (A1/2, B1/2, and C1/2) and analyzing the difference between the proficiency levels of these cultural words in terms of their frequency.
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Which Cultural Aspects do The Textbooks of Teaching Turkish to Foreigners Transfer?

, 2018
Teaching a foreign language aims at not only teaching the language and language skills, but transferring the culture of the target language. The main reason for that is people learn the target language as a standby in addition to learning the language ...
Sami BASKIN, BASKIN, Sami
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