International Journal of Language Academy

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Authors: M. Faruk TOPRAK

Our study aims at to study and evaluate Şemseddin Sâmî’s dictionary, Kâmûs-ı Türkî which has been published in 1901, in term of correct translation of some Arabic and other Semitic words. In fact, most of those words have been translated correctly. This denotes deep knowledge of Şemseddin Sâmî who was a true intellectual and had a well education. But we point out that there are many mistakes and wrong translations in his work. We observe that the author gives, sometimes, the meaning of some Arabic words according their daily using in Turkish, meanwhile he explains meanings of any Arabic words both in Arabic and Turkish. Because of the lack of knowledge about Semitic Peoples and their languages, cultures - execpt of Arabic - in the Muslim World, some words and terms have been translated wrong. For example, the source of word ateş (fire) is being denoted Syriac, but we couldn’t find this word in Syriac dictionaries. It’s clear Persian. In order to study and scrutinize those discussed words, we used the most famous classical Arabic dictionaries. Lisânu’l-ʿarab of İbn Manzûr is one of these dictionaries.

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Authors: B. Erdem DAĞISTANLIOĞLU

Kashfu’l-Huda is written by Huseyn-i Harezmi in the first half of the 15th century. It was presented to Abu’lHayr Khan after the conquering of Khwarezm. Kashfu’l-Huda takes a unique work among Husayn-i Harezmi’s Turkish language literary works. One of the copies is located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin under the registration number Ms. or. oct. 1688 (BN), copied in 1758-1759. Süleymaniye Library, Mahmud Paşa Collection, under the registration number 271 (SN) is the other location of its copies. It is copied before 1474 (Date of death about Mahmud Pasa). Kashfu’l-Huda includes commentary work of Busiri’s text and also other data from Turkish and Islamic literature. This piece of ritual or traditional ode writing for Hz. Muhammad, Qasida-i Burda has a important position in the Islamic literature. Ka'b bin Zuhayr and Busiri’s poems are the most famous odes in this literary space. Busiri’s work is known as Qasidatu’l-Burdati’lMavsumatu bi’l-Kavakibi’d-Durriyati fi Madhi Hayri’l-Bariyya or Qasidatu’l-Bur’a and Qasidatu’l-Bur’iyya particularly in the Ottoman literary area. Husayn-i Harezmi and his commentary for Busiri’s ode, named Kashfu’l-Huda are quite unknown in Turkish language and literature researchers. Although, it’s acknowledged in Macalisu’n-Nafayis by Ali Şir Navayi about Huseyn-i Harezmi. In Turkish language and literature research, the period from 14th to early 15th century of the Eastern Turkish literature area is called from his name: Khwarezm Turkish. Ali Şir Nevayi informed about Huseyn-i Harezmi and his commentary of Qaside-i Burda, it’s written by Harezmîçe Turkî til. From this point of view, this term of Turkish literary called as Khwarezm Turkish by Janos Eckman. In this study, it is the purpose is to determine the importance of Kashfu’l-Huda in the Turkish literature.

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Authors: Turan PAKER & Yeliz Ergül ÖZCAN

Our study aimed at finding out the effectiveness of corpus-based vocabulary teaching activities as well as students’ attitudes towards concordance-based materials when corpus-based tasks in English vocabulary learning are used. The study was conducted in a preparatory school in a private university. The participants were 28 intermediate level students whose native language was Turkish and they were between the age of 17 and 20. They were placed into two intact groups as experimental and control group as a result of a pre-test. While the participants in the experimental group were taught through corpus-based vocabulary teaching activities, those in the control group were taught vocabulary activities through the tasks in their text book and dictionary. The data were collected through a proficiency exam, pre- and posttests and a 12 item-questionnaire based on a 5-point Likert scale as quantitative instruments and through interviews and learner diaries as qualitative instruments. The quantitative data were analyzed through descriptive analysis and independent samples t-tests, and qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis by observing themes in students’ responses during the interviews and learner diaries. The statistical analysis indicated that using corpus-based vocabulary tasks were more effective than the tasks in the textbook. Additionally, our findings indicated that the attitudes of the students were positive in the use of corpus-based vocabulary tasks.

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Authors: Erol DURAN & Nazmiye TOPBAŞOĞLU

Storytelling provides the permanence of cultural heritage. Storytelling, as a tool for experience, cultural transfer and a bridge to past, enables us to present the oral culture in an entertaining way. Throughout the centuries, people have acquired the knowledge via oral language. People make a story out of knowledge in order to convey it and narrator’s talents enrich these stories. As a result, storytelling has become a significiant teaching method in education. It is understood that storytelling in education develops students’ academic achievement. Storytelling makes knowledge perceptible and lasting. It enchances writing, listening, speaking and oral language skills. It also develops students’ emphaty, self-expression, critical thinking skills and helps students realize their own abilities. It gives students the opportunity to tell stories, create their own stories, discover and express themselves. However storytelling in written language has fallen behind and is rarely used in education when compared to other teaching methods. In this research storytelling is studied because of its academic and social value. The literature has been reviewed and a general frame has been drawn for storytelling as the oldest form of education. Findings has been classified and inquired as storytelling, history of storytelling, its educational value, storytelling researches, its benefits to the students and features of narrator.

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Authors: Serpil SOYDAN

According to traditional description, metaphor, is the substitution of one of two concepts that have similarity. The metaphor is an action that exist in thought before from language according to Conceptual Metaphors Theory. A metaphor is understood with another concept domain of a consept domain. Metaphors are not arbitrary, arbitrarily used language expressions. It is words in language that situated in the thought systematically and consciously and facilitate the concept and meaning. There is a concept that is a target with a concept that is a resource in metaphors. The idea of facilitating the understanding with evokation, the desire to learn and to teach, the creative thinking power that exists in the mind of the person constitute these language expressions.In this study, ıt was examined the metaphors used in the Divan of Hüseyin Baykara and Ali Şir Nevâyî’s Divan. It is aimed to examine the systematic status of the concepts of Çağatay Turkic and some metaphors living in Chagatai Turkısh Turkic and to determine in part which type of metaphor is preferred. Metaphors were evaluated under the those headings: I.General Appearance of Metaphors: I.1.Consistency in Metaphors: Positive Perspective on Metaphors, Negative Perspective on Metaphors II.1.Ontological Metaphors: II.2. Personification: II.3. Container Metafor

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Authors: Pınar ALTUNDAĞ

Learning a foreign language is not just about learning the grammar rules and the meanning of the vocabulary, also it should contain the cultural components. As it is often stated that language is culture and culture is language, the role of culture has been extended in foreign language learning for effective language teaching. The primary aim of foreign language teaching is to enable learners to communicate with people coming from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. To enhance the cultural awareness of the students, intercultural communication training should be an integral part of language teaching. Integrating intercultural competence components into language learning activities may actually make them more interesting and appealing, and help developing students’ linguistic abilities and awareness of foreign language courses. The aim of Korean Language teaching is to build communication skills needed for students’ interaction with the Koreans. Enhancing the Korean language curriculum with the cultural aspects makes Korean learning more sense and effective and much easier for learners. Korean language learners should acquire the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities of Turkish culture and Korean culture and behave properly in the given situation and to communicate clearly and effectively. From this point of view, role of teacher and teaching materials should be taken in consideration. Especially teachers and curriculum designers need to be aware of increasing importance of intercultural competence in Korean language teaching. This study is a qualitative research based on description which is designed to describe the concept of intercultural competence and its role in foreign language teaching. In the study, firstly it was aimed to describe and explain the concept of intercultural competence, and secondly to emphasize the necessity of intercultural competence in teaching to Turkish students who learn Korean as a foreign language in Turkey. For this purpose, firstly literature review is carried out and the studies related to the concept of intercultural competence are summarized. Afterwards, the current situation in the teaching of Korean language in Turkey was observed and suggestions were made for the further studies to be carried out in this field in line with the observations made. This study is limited to university students learning Korean as a foreign language in Turkey.

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Authors: Ömer ŞEKERCİ

William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) is generally regarded as one of the greatest poets of the 20th century in English and Irish literatures. Though Yeats is known as a world renowned poet he also wrote some plays as well. His poetry is full of symbols depicting common and ordinary life and familiar traditions of Irish culture. His plays deal with mysticism, esoteric and non-realistic dramatic styles as well. This paper examines mysticism and mystical elements used in The Land of Heart’s Desire as in line with Irish legends and mythology. It also deals with Yeats’ love of his Irish homeland and the various myths and legends concerning fairies and a kind of fairy land in which humans are tempted to enter. To Yeats, fairies and the supernatural legends are used as tools to travel from the real world to the otherworld. The clashes of real and fancy worlds have been displayed with reference to the Irish myths. Mysticism has been one of the most thrilling and fascinating phenomena for the authors and humankind throughout ages. Mysticism refers to psychology, spiritualism, magic, and poetry as well as religion. Although it has no direct links with the divine religions it could be defined as human’s experience of God.

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Authors: Meryem NAKİBOĞLU

War has an impact on humanity and also especially children, It leaves deep psychological scars irradicably on children’s moods and the scars never disappear in children’s lives lifelong. The war has permanent damage impact on children and effects psychologically, traumatically, physically. One of them is 13 years old, originally Jewish and daughter of German Mother Anne Frank who has faced all these problems and experienced Second World War and Hitlerite Germany. Anne Frank is just one example of children who are had to live like prisoners in-house and her life was enserfed instead of living life to the fullest. As it was in the past, nowadays many wars are created and millions of children’s live send because of greedy and profits of governments all around the World. In this article Hitlerite Germany, Jewish People’s social conditions and exiles, burning book which is belong to Jewish Poems, the difficulty encountered, Anne Frank, her house which was she hidden and Anne Frank’s journal in the direction of path of war will be analysed with the method of psycho-social dimensions and new historicism model.

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Authors: Gülsün KOÇER

İsmet Kür (1916-2013) is one of the most important figures of our history of literatüre with her works both in the field of children’s literatüre and those she wrote for adults. The artist, who was the sister of Halide Nusret Zorlutuna from our famous writers and poets, traveled to Anatolia together with her sister, who was a teacher since her early ages, and school and education became important affairs of her life. After graduating from the Gazi Education Institute, she started teaching. In 1939-61 she taught in various cities such as Zonguldak, Bursa and Ankara. İsmet Kür's thinking about education is very important because it also includes her own teaching experiences. The author wrote eight novels, a play and three radiophonic play saries. The author, who is a techer herdelf, discussed and evauated various aspects of educational issues between the years 1969-1973 in both of these fictional works for children and in her various newspaper articles. At the time of her works she expressed the issues related to educationand her opinions regarding the solution of this problems. In this study, we are going to examine the education issue that has included in her fictional works as well as the newspaper articles in a particular order regarding the familiy, school, state tringle. Besides, the resbonsibility of these institutions on the issue of education and the relations with each other are also going to be handled.

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Authors: Gülşah BULUT

Language politics are a set of practices against the languages of different ethnic peoples within a political authority. States intervene in language to establish national identity, increase their influence, and determine the language's social and cultural life use. The states that provide national troops determine the status of the upper-lingual statute, the area of use and the territories, which are designated as the official language. The upper tongue, the socio-cultural range of use is supported by the state, which is also widespread through communication channels, making this language prestigious. The rapid globalization of the world has caused certain higher tongues to become more prestigious, even among countries. Within the state administration, the languages of minorities with political, social, economic power, and low population enter the lower language class. States also protect the tongues of different ethnic groups within them. However, with these laws, the political authorities have more negative interventions to limit the use of minority languages throughout the country and affect their tongue in a negative way. Today, for this reason, many minority languages around the world are about to die or to the extinction limit.In this context China is, with a population of 1.3 billion people, the most populated country on earth. In the country where nearly 200 ethnic nations live, the majority of the population consists of Han Chinese. In this work, the language policies applied to other ethnic groups in China, governed by the Communist regime, will be conveyed in a timely, historical course. In the last part, the approaches and policies of the Chinese government to the Uyghur Turks, our cognates, will be discussed.

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Authors: Mehmet BÜYÜKTUNCAY

In On Translation (2004/2006), Ricoeur treats translation as an ethical paradigm in the encounter with alterity with reference to such concepts as linguistic hospitality, the test and the resistance of the foreign. In a separate article, he proposes translation as a model for a European ethos, accompanied with like acts as the exchange of memories and forgiveness, which could further be expanded into a universal maxim. But, how is translation to be apprehended in a movement from ethical thinking to judicial thinking and juridical practice? In Reflections on the Just (2001/2007), Ricoeur notes that “[to] translate is to do justice to a foreign intelligence, to install the just distance from one linguistic whole to another” (31). Justice is not only the guarantor of impartiality and a distance in the relation between two adverse parties, but it is also relevant to translation in the form of making judgments and applying norms to a given case. In that respect, Ricoeur’s texts on translation should also be re-evaluated under the light of his other works, Memory, History and Forgetting (2000/2004) and Oneself as Another (1990/1992), which are mainly concerned with the duty of memory, narrativity, and human capability. This paper seeks to liaise the act of translation with justice in its theoretical and institutional dimensions exclusively in the light of concepts like distanciation, prudence and attestation, drawing an arch from Ricoeurean hermeneutics of the self and the text to translational and legal hermeneutics.

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Authors: Miray ENEZ

The present paper deals with the linguistic investigation of the data contained in a corpus received data with regard to error analysis. Firstly the relation between learner corpora and language acquisition research is represented; afterwards the learner corpus Falko is introduced; in the last point the learning texts of Falko Essay L2v2.4 are examined with regard to error analysis. The aim of this paper is to show how goaloriented is the use of prepositions with the right articles for advanced learners of the German as a foreign language. In this context the error annotation in the learner corpus Falko is used as an examination method. Finally, it can be seen that errors in article use have higher error rates than errors when using prepositions. In addition, the annotation of example texts shows that tokens are often assigned the ZH1DiffTag CHA (in context: false preposition or incorrect articles). With frequency analysis all types of errors and their frequency distribution were classified. Because the target hypotheses play an important role in this classification, we can say that target hypotheses or similar concepts are always required if linguistic structures cannot be described with given grammar. From the perspective of the grammatical level, we can conclude that the prepositions and articles are still an acquisition problem in the advanced field.

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Authors: Ahmet Zeki GÜVEN

Value that is attributed to something and the value concept meaning price play an important role in ensuring social unity and solidarity and transferring these values to the next generations. Therefore, every individual must adopt and preserve social values and assume responsibility for transferring these values to the next generations. The transfer of value first begins in the family. Children imitate their parents from an early age by taking the role model of their parents. For this reason, parents should not forget that they have responsibilities at this point. The transfer of value ,which first starts in the family, continues in schools namely the formal educational institutions. Schools must be more systematic and attentive than families at the point of value transfer. It should not be forgotten that especially teachers can be positive role models for students. For this reason, especially teachers must have the values of the society and be able to transfer these values to students. At this point, the importance of well-educated teachers will emerge. Especially in education faculties this point must be given importance and teachers of the future must be equipped with social values. For this purpose, in this study, the perception of values of the Turkish education department students was examined in terms of different variables and the obtained findings were interpreted. Turkish education department students formed the universe of the study, while a total of 225 students studying in the first, second, third and fourth classes of Division of Turkish Language Education, Department of Social Sciences and Turkish Education, Faculty of Education of Akdeniz University in 2016-2017 academic year formed the sample of the study. In the study, Portrait Values Scale which was formed and developed by Schwarts, Melech, Lechmann, Burgess, Haris and Owens (2001) and adopted to Turkish by Demirutku(2004). When the average of scores,which students got from Portrait Values Scale, are examined it is seen that the highest average is in the universality scale (X:5, 3689) and the lowest average is in the power scale(X:3,5022). When answers given to Portrait Values Scale by participating students in the study were examined in terms of gender variation, significant differences were found in the following values : Power, Taking Pleasure in Life, Universality, Benevolence, Traditionalism, Security. However, there was no significant difference in terms of gender groups in the Achievement, Adoption, inspiration and Self-Orientation groups. There was no significant difference identified in the value perception of the students participating in the survey, when their value perception was examined in terms of classroom variables.

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Authors: Bekir DİREKCİ, Mazhar BAL, Bilal ŞİMŞEK

To advance technological equipment in schools and to ensure effective use of technological tools, the "Movement to Increase Opportunities and Technology" (Fatih Project) has been implemented by the Ministry of Education in Turkey since 2010. To that end, as of 2015, use of smart boards has started in the schools nearly all regions of Turkey. Besides, the MNE has distributed 1,437,800 tablets to students by 2016 and the MNE has announced that it will distribute 10 million 600 thousand tablets till 2020(http://fatihprojesi.meb.gov.tr/).Therefore, it is requisite to determine whether the investments in this context have reached the projected objectives. This study adopts case study design of qualitative research methods. During the research, preliminary interviews are held with 10 secondary schools in city centre, Antalya. School principals and students have volunteered to participate in the study. The research group consists of 10 school principals, 30 Turkish language teachers, and 60 middle-school students. Semi-structured interview form is used to collect data. Separate interview forms have been developed for teachers, students, and school principals. The descriptive analysis technique is used to analyse the data. The components of activity theory constitute the themes of the analysis process. The research results reveal that Turkish language teachers lack in integrating technology into the implementation process. However, few teachers make effort to overcome these shortcomings. On the other hand, Turkish language teachers take a more active role than school principals and student when we take into account the inter-stakeholder job division in the process of technology utilization process in teaching activities, and school principals and students have hardly any role in the implementation process considering the distribution of roles among stakeholders.

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Authors: Hilal NAYİR EKİNCİ

Fire has made many contributions to humanity in various terms after its discovery and custody use. Fire has affected approximately every culture and it has been involved in mythology, beliefs, magic and similar applications in addition to its impact on daily lives. Having a vital role in all societies, fire was also very important in Ottoman society and took effect in social life and culture. It is possible to see the tracks of this impact in Divan poetry as well. Divan poets addressed to fire from many various aspects and used many metaphors in their poems regarding fire. Those metaphors and imaginations regarding fire have been diversified over the centuries and some metaphors have become stereotyped. Divan poetry also indicated some elements regarding the concept of clothing which reflected the culture of that period. Clothes of that period were aestheticized and included in poems. Divan poets suggested their metaphors by handling various features of the clothes and expressed abstract concepts by utilizing those elements which are concretized through adaptation. We see metaphors and imaginations regarding clothing elements almost every century. Inclusion of those elements in poems by Divan poets indicates that elements of daily lives are included in Divan poetry. This inclusion is also important to reflect cultural diversity. This essay aims at addressing to the relationship between clothes and fire which is suggested by Divan poets and determining the relevance between fire and clothes based on various samples from different centuries. Examples which combine fire and clothes will be classified and it will be determined from which aspects these two elements are reflected in Divan poetry.

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Authors: Ayhan DİRİL

The aim of this study is to give an overview of some activities by using the films to teach English in a class of students who study English as a second language. Many English teachers accept that language learners seem to be more motivated when a film is involved, especially when it is an authentic one as it is a very supportive activity. Watching films cannot be enough by itself in language learning. This is probably because of watching it with subtitles in students’ own language but not in English. An English film can be used in many class activities to open a way to focus for discussing the language and culture. With a good planning it creates a warm atmosphere among the students and they are helpful to reach an objective as a pastime activity too. It should be kept in mind that methods can especially work best only if it is done with pleasure. Using these activities give students courage, motivation, and increase their stimulation. Oral and other skill courses are composed by using common ideas, functions, or grammar emphasized in the film. If the right film is chosen motivation will increase. The purpose of the students’ watching it should also be clear. The use of films will help improve the language and the learners’ social developments. With the help of these activities, students will develop their pronunciation, vocabulary, authentic language, cultural transmission, and speaking abilities. Below are listed 12 activities to be carried out during viewing and post viewing the film. The author selected this film because it can be used in any class easily as it has no inappropriate scenes and students will have empathy on the players in the film made in a school environment.

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Authors: Özber CAN

This article aims to introduce a recent participant in the Turkish Literature Feridun Zaimoglu, his works and his understandings of art. Although is has been denied, due to the support of Germany to the terrorists and the groups that are generating the detriment against Turkey there has been a political tension between these countries. In additon, with this tension searchs the polical for a reponsible of economic problems and the rise in unemployment. All these causes to increase of immigrant problem, the publicenterprises of Germany’s sanction towards Turks, the faith of Germens to Türkish people, violence, attacks and arson. The neglience of German parliement gives opportunities to fascists and makes the Turks gradually uneasy. The doubt between the two nations that are living together endanger the perviously gained communication and harmony. However, after the 60 years it has been seen that Turks have not only helped Germany’s development but also worked in public enterprises and politics. It will be wrong to create a negative environment by relating everything to immigration and immigrants. Zaimoglu discusses his discours regarding these issues. Although his considering migration as a social and a successful process had seen violently critisized beforehand, he neither stays quiet towards those that swear the first generation, nor he remains insensitive towards the silencing of the public through natural assimilation. The writer who became the idol of people from almost every national origin with his criticisms that ranges from social pressure to political associations is awarded as he increases human driven criticisms. He is receiving broad acceptance with his hybrid Kanak identity and marginal discourse in the art today’s literature, politics and academic world.