6th grade students' perceptions of blogs in an English class
Kattsir, Elan (Bilkent University, 2012)
This study uses mixed-methods research to investigate how a grade 6 English class in Turkey responds to the use of blogs. It explored students' perceptions of and attitudes towards using a class, community, and student ...
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Approach to critical thinking in the Turkish Language and Literature curriculum: a content analysis
Emir, Deniz (Bilkent University, 2021-10)
This study first intends to explore the philosophical stance of the Turkish Language and Literature curriculum, which was redesigned in 2018, to assess extent to which it is conducive to development of critical thinking ...
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A case study on primary school students' perceptions about their use of language learning and reading strategies and strategy training
Wilkes, Jane Crawford (Bilkent University, 2011)
This study looks at the language learning and reading comprehension strategies of students in 3rd – 8 th grades. The study takes place at Bilkent Laboratory and International School, which is a bilingual school in ...
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Community service learning in international context: a cross-case analysis
Uzun, Nurgül (Bilkent University, 2016-06)
Although there are a number of private-schools that implement service-learning activities within the framework of their international curricula, service-learning is a relatively new concept in public schools in Turkey. The ...
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A comparative analysis of national and international English language curricula for high schools in Turkey
Kondakçı, Nermin (Bilkent University, 2014)
This research study comparatively analyses five national and international high school English language curricula implemented in Turkey. These curricula are the Turkish Ministry of National Education (MONE) High School ...
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Exploring communicative languange teaching in a grade 9 nationwide textbook: New bridge to success
Ander, Tuğba (Bilkent University, 2015)
Communicative language teaching (CLT) has been widely influential in English language teaching for the last two decades. Therefore, many materials including textbooks have been designed considered the principles of ...
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Exploring the language skills embedded in the grade nine New Bridge to Success textbook
Uçaner, Nihan (Bilkent University, 2013)
The main aim of this study is to explore and map out the receptive and productive language skills and sub-skills embedded in the grade nine textbook, New Bridge to Success Elementary (2011) for Anatolian High Schools. ...
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Gender issues and conflicts in brontë's Jane Eyre: an interpretive synthesis for informing critical literacy instruction
Erentuğ, Merve (Bilkent University, 2018-05)
The purpose of this study is to identify the issues as well as conflicts of gender in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with the aim of providing lines of arguments as guidelines to inform critical literacy instruction. To ...
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Guidelines for developing critical media literacy instructional framework: a critical interpretive meta study
Ündeğer, Berkay (Bilkent University, 2021-10)
Critical reading of the media has become an increasingly important skill in the face of ever-expanding exposure to numerous types of media in all aspects and moments of life in the contemporary world. This thesis sets out ...
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Guidelines for developing writing instruction framework within the context of English For Academic Purposes (EAP) as informed by Academic Literacies: a critical interpretive meta synthesis
Arslan, Fundagül (Bilkent University, 2021-10)
This thesis aimed to provide guidelines for developing writing instruction framework within the context of teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) as informed by Academic Literacies (Ac Lits). To this end, the researcher ...
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Guidelines for establishing criteria for the assessment of translation tests at YADIM, Çukurova University
Türkmen, Melek (Bilkent University, 1999)
The assessment of the quality of a translation has long been an issue under discussion both in the field of translation studies and in the teaching of translation in second language curriculum. Variables such as the ...
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Language learning strategies in bilingual context: a case study
Eteke, Ceren (Bilkent University, 2017-05)
This study aims to investigate the language learning strategies (LLSs) employed by 118 high school students, ranging between 14 and 18-year-olds and receiving bilingual education, for identifying the commonly used direct ...
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Queering teacher education programs: perceptions of pre-service EFL teachers towards queer issues
Güney, Özge (Bilkent University, 2018-06)
This study aimed to explore the perceptions of pre-service teachers towards discussions of queer issues in English language classrooms and in teacher education programs in Turkey. The data were collected through pre- and ...
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The relationship between progress tests and the end of course assessment test at foundation level at Bilkent University School of English Language (BUSEL)
Gencer, Müge Ayşe (Bilkent University, 1999)
Testing has always been an important part of every teaching and learning experience. Tests can serve a number of purposes. One of the important ones is that tests can help identify the strengths and weaknesses of learning ...
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Service learning in high school context: an interpretive synthesis
Gönül, Hatice (Bilkent University, 2021-01)
Service learning is used increasingly in primary, secondary and higher education contexts. It provides platform for multiple learning pathways from experiential and social-emotional learning to character and values education, ...
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A survey on the use of vocabulary learning strategies of high school students
Derici, Elif (Bilkent University, 2019-06)
This study investigates the vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) employed by 556 high school students to identify the most and least frequently used discovery and consolidation strategies. The study further investigates ...
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Teaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: an interpretive synthesis to inform critical literacy instruction in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme context
Hamamcılar, İrem (Bilkent University, 2019-10)
The purpose of this study is to explore studies focusing on a literary text conducive to providing critical content within the context of International Baccalaureate (IB) Language A: language and literature for preparing ...
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Teaching Shakespeare : a qualitative meta-analysis
Aydın, Nagihan (Bilkent University, 2013)
The purpose of this study is to explore studies conducted in the past twenty-five years on teaching Shakespeare, and to prepare guidelines to inform classroom instruction. Principles of qualitative-meta analysis are ...
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Teaching the adventures of Huckleberry Finn: a meta-ethnographic study
Doğan, Naime (Bilkent University, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how models of teaching literature, and literary theories could be used to provide lenses and alternative perspectives for analysing and interpreting a number of sources and ...
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Understanding faculty development : a qualitative typology of services and purposes
Acar, İmren (Bilkent University, 2017-01)
The concept of faculty development, or teaching-learning centers, has been gaining importance around the world since late 1950s in the context of higher education. Their services and offerings have been changing in theory ...
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Using critical lenses to teach “to Kill a Mockingbird” : an interpretive synthesis
Bakır, Gülten Yonca (Bilkent University, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to explore the studies conducted on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and to use critical pedagogy and radical literary theories as lenses for providing guidelines to design issue/conflict-based ...
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Using Scoopit and curatorial learning cycle for establishing a learning environment within the context of teaching King Lear
Orallı, Sinem (Bilkent University, 2014)
This study intended to explore how a web 2.0 tool, Scoop.it, could be used to curate and differentiate web-based content within the context of teaching a Shakespearean tragedy, King Lear, and devise a personal and professional ...