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Investigation of Turkish EFL Teachers' Views about Standard Languages, Dialects and Language Varieties through the Lenses of English and Turkish
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Uresin, Ferhat; Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2019
This study was set out to investigate a small number of Turkish EFL teachers' views about the concepts of a standard language, dialects, and other language varieties concerning their mother tongue (Turkish) and the language (English) they are tasked with teaching at schools. The respondents of this research were 12 Turkish EFL teachers working in…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes
English Voices in "Text-to-Speech Tools": Representation of English Users and Their Varieties from a World Englishes Perspective
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Karakas, Ali – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
English has experienced grave transformations recently in terms of socio-demographic and geographical characteristics. While such transformations have resulted in diverse types of English uses and various English users, the existing ELT materials still fail to represent the global varieties and dynamic uses and users of English. Moving from a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Second Language Instruction
A Critical Look at the Phenomenon of 'A Mixed-Up Use of Turkish and English' in English-Medium Instruction Universities in Turkey
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Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2019
In recent years, many Turkish universities, particularly the foundation universities in the private sector, have adopted English either in part or in full, as the language of instruction. In practice, this has meant that English should be the only working language of instruction in all academic activities, ranging from lectures, seminars,…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries