International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research

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Authors: Luljeta Adili Celiku

It has been some time now that Ismail Kadare’s literary and artistic values have been spoken about. Many studies on his works have also taken place. The reason lies beyond his extraordinary and pleasant style as well as his linguistic capabilities that make him so special. He especially excels in the field of the lexicon and vocabulary. He writes in standard Albanian language, meaning that he abides by those spelling and grammatical rules as do the rest of Albanian writers and authors; however, this does not prevent him from expressing his linguistic egoism and peculiarity. This paper is aimed at his language; at his linguistic contributions in the field of word-formation. He creates new words in Albanian in order to clean it from the impact of borrowings and foreign words, and even for stylistic purposes. In this study, we have tried to collect some of Kadare’s words in order to illustrate his engagement in this field. His specialty remains in the field of word formation and has to do with the scope he chooses and uses, with the areas where lexical inputs come from and word-formation means. The words have been divided into two groups: in prefixed and suffixed ones. There are also mixed or compound creations. For every new word, the semantic meaning and the word to be replaced have also been given.

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Authors: Güçlü Özen, Şerife Vatansever

The main objective of the study is to determine the effects of university students’ artificial climbing wall experiences, which is considered among experimental learning (learn by doing) activities and defined as “high activity”, on their problem solving skill levels. Artificial wall climbing emerges as a learning point which is both a game as of its content and an activity providing people to be active, not passive, through experimental learning activities and creating people opportunities to know better about themselves and others as well as their limits. Pretest- posttest control group experimental model was used in this study. Experiment group participated into the practice twice in a week, totally for eight weeks. During this time, the control group continued their normal daily routines and not joined any activity. To collect data, Problem Solving Inventory developed by Heppner and Peterson (1982) was used. As a result of statistical analysis, statistically significant differences (p <0.05) were found between subscales and total scores of hasty approach, confident approach and planned approach. Consequently, activities done during artificial wall climbing have been causing positive development in problem solving skills & perception levels of university students.

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Authors: Ayten Pınar Bal

The purpose of this study is to identify the changes in the attitudes of teacher candidates continuing pedagogic formation training certification programme, towards profession starting from the first stage within the process and to address the effect of this change on gender and type of school they graduated variables. This study was figured according to longitudinal panel searching model of developmental research which is one of the descriptive research method. As the population of study was formed by teacher candidates of different branches continuing pedagogic formation training certification programme of a public university, the sample was formed by 114 mathematics teacher candidates continuing this programme. In conclusion, with this study done to obtain the changes in attitudes of teacher candidates continuing pedagogic formation training programme, towards profession in period starting from the first stage and to address the effect of this change on gender and high school type variables, a conclusion was reached that a positive change occurred in attitudes of teacher candidates towards profession. Also, another important result obtained from the study is that gender and high school variables do not affect the attitude points of teacher candidates towards profession.

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Authors: Ahmet Alp

The aim of this study is to discuss about the impossibility of being value-free in social sciences that have developed theoretically and methodologically since the 19th century. Social sciences emerged in the Enlightenment period that has led to many social changes and transformations in western societies. Social sciences which are younger than natural sciences relatively have been influenced by natural sciences crucially in terms of methodology. Moreover, it could be seen that social sciences still have intensive debates regarding theory and methodology because of being new sciences. They developed under the influence of positivist philosophy which accepted the knowledge and methodology of natural sciences in the 19th century. Therefore, social sciences have been affected by the approaches of being value-free. In the 20th century, when it is looked at the social sciences’ theories that were affected by the interpretive approach, which was supported by M. Weber, asserted that the researcher who studies a society is the object of the society at the same time, and therefore, the researcher cannot be value free while he/she studies on the society. Ernst Nagel (1979), Gresham Riley (1974), N. Robin (1968) etc. social scientists carried out some studies regarding values judgments in social sciences Classical and contemporary sociological theoreticians have argued intensively regarding being value or value free of social sciences’ methodology. Furthermore, this study is a critique of positivism in respect of its methodological approach that supports to be value-free in social researches. Thus, it is aimed to contribute new aspects to literature for understanding and producing solutions for the problems of societies.

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Authors: Bulent Eken

The discussions of the end of cinema tend to privilege the emergence of digital technology as a turning point. In this paper, I argue for the centrality of the category of the “viewer”, which as a concept makes visible the essence of the medium of cinema. This essence is the preservation of time in which the viewer has a stake in relation to his or her memory. This then shows the limits for a possible discussion of the end of cinema. If there is a certain type of film that leaves no room for the spectator, then this could mark one sense of an end. I take the mainstream entertainment cinema that is based in staging a “spectacle” as an example. The temporality of cinema is also surpassed in the direction of video, which does not preserve time by constructing image-objects but participates in a time-matter in which all is already an image.

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Authors: Aytül Gökulu

The aim of this study to find out prospective teachers’ views about the prospective teacher training process. For this purpose, the views of the prospective teachers about the way they evaluate themselves, counselor teachers, school administers in the prospective teacher training process have been identified. 100 prospective teachers have participated to the studies who want to implement the prospective teacher training process in Çanakkale. The research tool has been prepared by the researcher. SPSS statistical programme has been used for comparisons and the data have been analyzed in terms of frequency and percentage. According to the results of the study, it has been seen that prospective teachers think that the prospective teacher education process is beneficial for their professional life. Also, the study has shown that there is no significant difference between female and male prospective teachers with respect to their views about the prospective teacher training process andhere is no significant difference between primary school teachers and branch prospective teachers with respect to their views about the prospective teacher training process. But when it has been compared with the newly graduated and not newly graduated prospective it has been found that there is significant difference between newly graduated prospective teachers and the others.

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Authors: Muazzez Harunoğulları

Energy resources are fundamental inputs in countries’ development in terms of economic, industrial and technical aspects and facilitating countries’ social lives. The sustainability of countries’ economies is possible with energy resources. The reserve levels and diversification of energy resources and accessibility to these resources steer the energy policies of countries. Another factor affecting these policies the transportation of oil and natural gas resources. Transporting hydrocarbon resources safely, diversity of countries’ energy kinds and commanding the energy market and routes increase countries’ economic and political power and their geopolitical and geostrategic importance. In this study, reserves of oil and natural gas that are the leading resources providing energy globally and locally, production and consumption of these resources, competition between countries in the energy market, geopolitical importance of production areas and globally powerful countries’ energy policies that are implemented to gain economic and political power were discussed. Even though interests of the US, Russia, China, Japan and EU countries sometimes clash, they come together with energy related agreements and projects. The US lifting the embargo on Iran is an obvious indication that the countries have entered a new era in energy policies. There is a great struggle between the US and Russia over world’s energy regions and pipe line routes in energy transportation. In this power struggle, China, Japan, Iran, EU countries and India are getting involved in this energy struggle on a regional and global scale.

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Authors: Aslıhan Eroğlu, Seda Bayraktar

This study aimed to examine the variables that are associated with internet addiction. The study sample included a total of 120 individuals (53 women and 67 men) living in Istanbul. The research data were collected through Personal Information Form, Internet Addiction Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The data were analyzed using the SPSS software package, independent sample t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The analyses showed no significant correlation between internet addiction and the variables of gender, age, educational level, daily internet usage, life satisfaction, self-esteem. There was a significant relationship between internet addiction and the variables of loneliness and knowledge about cyber crimes. The research findings indicated that higher levels of loneliness meant increased internet addiction, while lower levels of loneliness meant decreased internet addiction. Besides, those knowledgeable about cyber crimes were found to have lower levels of internet addiction, as compared to those unaware of cyber crimes.

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Authors: Kian Wah Liew, Grace Lee Ching Yap, Rohaizan Osman, Betsy Guat Poh Lee, Wing Loon Chee

Achievement goal theory (AGT) has emerged as a prominent framework to examine influences on students’ motivation and achievement. The achievement goals are classified into mastery and performance goals orientation. Whilst mastery goals focus on self-improvement and emphasize on learning, performance goals are motivated by a desire for extrinsic approval and may lead to surface learning. This project focuses on creating a learning environment that is students-centered via incorporating AGT within the students’ learning curve and examine students’ satisfaction in learning and their performance due to these interventions. As the conventional grading system can be a stumbling block, this research employs grouping strategy that sets the classroom with the collaborative learning environment to promote the development of mastery goal orientation and intrinsic motivation. Various pedagogies suited for the encouragement of a mastery goal orientation have been applied. Surveys via the tools adapted from Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey (PALS), observational data, and interviews are used to study the effect of the goal structure and the learning outcomes.

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Authors: Volkan Yakın, Oya Eru

Social marketing can be described as non-profit organizations' marketing activities. With social marketing activities, it is aimed to create awareness of the campaign issues for create a useful behavioral pattern in society. As for business organizations, promotion is an important part of marketing activities in nonprofit organizations too. With the usage of the Internet in the marketing area, new channels have emerged to perform promotional activities. Social media can be described as one of these new channels. The most important reason of usage of social media as a promotion channel by nonprofit organizations is the possibility to reach more people on a tight budget. Also, social media provides to create an interactive communication, to measure campaign results and to transmit campaign messages to the right audience. Recently the newest concept using as a promotional tool can be described as emoji. Many companies including nonprofit organizations have started to use emojis in their advertising campaigns. The aim of this Study is to aimed to measure the attitudes towards emoji usage in social marketing campaigns and to guide companies who are going to use emojis in their advertising campaigns in the future. Not to encounter studies about measuring the effectiveness of emojis in marketing literature, expresses the importance of the study. In the study, experimental design method has been used and a survey has been applied to the selected sample. According to the results of the study, it has been concluded that emojis are effective for social advertising campaigns. Participants expressed that, usage of emojis in advertising campaigns is suitable for social campaigns. And using emojis in advertising campaigns explains the Project successfully. They expressed that the transmitted message of campaign is informative and effective. And also participants expressed that these kinds of campaigns are attractive, creative and innovative.

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Authors: Ayşegül Zıngır Gülten

The use of video in foreign language learning is known to support learning process in many different ways. Being rich and valuable resources, videos have many benefits such as providing authentic language input, bringing real world into the classroom setting, contextualizing language, grabbing students’ attention, focusing students’ concentration, generating interest, increasing motivation, enhancing comprehension, introducing target culture, and fostering learning. Yet, despite the widely accepted benefits of videos in Foreign Language Teaching (FLT), even in today’s English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms, learners are not exposed to such materials often. It is found out that English language teachers are either hesitant or unable to use video for language teaching purposes in classes. Triggering by this fact, the present study aims at identifying English Language Teaching (ELT) teacher trainees’ perceptions of video use in ELT classrooms. Basing on the qualitative data gathered from 135 second year ELT teacher trainees ,trainees’ preliminary concerns of video use are sorted out. It is revealed that actually ELT trainees have positive attitudes towards video implementation. Furthermore, possible advantages and disadvantages of using video are categorised and ELT teacher trainees’ suggestions on how to integrate video to our EFL situations are sorted out.

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Authors: Elif Güneri Yöyen

This study aims to examine the rate of childhood trauma, gender distribution and the relation between childhood trauma and self-respect. The research data was produced out of 530 university students at İstanbul Gelişim University, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences in the 2014-2015 academic year. In the research “Rosenberg Self-Respect Scale” and “Childhood Trauma Scale” were used and the data was analyzed by IBM SPSS 22.0. What was observed at the end of the research is as follows: The fact that childhood trauma exists decreases self-respect; as a determiner of self-respect level childhood trauma is a feeble factor to give reasons; all the sub-dimensions of childhood trauma (emotional abuse, physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect and sexual abuse) decrease self-respect; childhood trauma and as subdimensions physical neglect and sexual abuse in male students are higher than in female students; emotional abuse, physical abuse,emotional neglect subdimensions don’t differ when it comes to gender.

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Authors: Gulumser Efeoglu Senturk

Since Bachman and Palmer (1996) and Canale and Swain (1980) introduction of “pragmatic competence” in the field of L2 acquisition, its relation to other factors interacting with it has attracted attention of a number of researchers. The present study aims to explore the intertangled relation between two competences (namely pragmatic and structural) in three distinct areas such as request, advice and apology in L2 context. For the purposes of the current study, two data collection tools are employed. The first one is English Language Proficiency Test while the second is a discourse completion task. The latter consists of three subsections and each subsection involves four cases each of which targets exchanges between interlocutors with equal statues. The findings suggest that even though two distinct proficiency groups differ for some cases like requests, L2 proficiency is not a comprehensive indicator of L2 pragmatic competence development on its own.

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Authors: Melis Seray Özden Yıldırım, Ece Naz Ermiş

The aim of this study is to determine the predictive role of autonomous-related self of adolescent and the critical thinking disposition of parents on adolescent psychological resilience. The study was carried out on 339 participants who were selected randomly including 113 adolescents (in the range of 14-18 ages; female 57, male 56) and 113 mother – 113 father of these adolescents. Adolescent Psychological Resilience Scale, Autonomous-Related Self Scale, Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and Demographical information form were used for data collection. Pearson Correlation, Independent Samples t-Test and Hierarchical Regression were used in analysis of data. The findings reveal that there was a statistically significant positive correlation between adolescent psychological resilience and critical thinking disposition of parents. Also there was a statistically significant positive correlation between adolescent psychological resilience and relatedness of adolescent. Furthermore there was a statistically significant positive correlation between family, peer and school support subdimensions of adolescent psychological resilience and relatedness. The results showed that there was no significant difference regarding to adolescent psychological resilience level according to gender. According to hierarchical regression analysis’ results there was a predictive role of relatedness subdimension of self-construal of adolescent and critical thinking disposition of parents on adolescent psychological resilience.

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Authors: Tohit Güneş, Zeynep Öner

The study is performed to determine the effects of the concept based learning approach which has been carried out at 8th grade science lesson “Living Things and Energy Interactions” unit, towards students’ environmental attitudes. The study has been carried out with totally 39 students, being 20 of them are the experimental and 19 of them are the control group attending at a public secondary school in Samsun. The control group has been taught by existing practices and the experimental group has been taught by the concept based learning approach practices formed considering the learning attainments as part of the unit. Environmental attitude scale (five point Likert) consisting 25 questions and qualitative measurement instrument 9 semi-structured open ended questions have been applied to the experimental and control groups before and after the practices. The data acquired from the environmental attitude scale have been analysed using SPSS 17.0 programme, qualitative data have been evaluated by content analyses. As a result, analyses acquired from the environmental attitude scale it has been determined that there is no significant difference between the experimental group which has been applied context based learning approach and control group about environmental attitudes. In addition, when evaluated the data collected by open-ended questions, it has been determined that there are differences between before and after learning in either the experimental group or the control group and there are changes in each group towards carrying out scientific evaluations instead of personnel and emotional evaluations which has been carried out before learning.