• Integrating sustainability issues into English language courses at university 

  Gunina, Nataliya; Mordovina, Tatiana; Shelenkova, Irina (EDP Sciences, 2021)

  Education for Sustainable Development is a relatively new methodology that promotes principles of sustainable living and is aimed at integrating sustainability issues into the curriculum at all cycles of formal education. ...

• Associations between EFL students’ L2 grit, boredom coping strategies, and emotion regulation strategies: A structural equation modeling approach 

  Solhi, Mehdi; Derakhshan, Ali; Ünsal, Büşra (Routledge, 2023)

  This study intended to explore the relations between 259 Turkish EFL students’ L2 grit (i.e. the persistence of effort and consistency of interest) and boredom coping strategies (i.e. cognitive approach, behavioural approach, ...

• University students' level of boredom and their coping strategies in emergency remote education during the coronavirus pandemic 

  Solhi, Mehdi; Önen, Serap (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2023)

  The purpose of this study was twofold: firstly, we investigated whether there is a difference between male and female university students' level of boredom and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, ...

• Predicting pre-service English language teachers’ intentions to use augmented reality 

  Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Polat, Mustafa (Routledge, 2022)

  Augmented Reality (AR) is a new-generation technology that shows video, picture, and animated 3 D objects over real-life scenes. Despite AR’s prevalence around the world, language teacher education programs are not prompt ...

• Investigating Turkish pre-service English language teachers’ virtual teaching dispositions 

  Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Solhi, Mehdi (European Knowledge Development (EUROKD, 2022)

  The current study sought to investigate Turkish pre-service English language (EL) teachers’ virtual teaching dispositions (i.e., social, pedagogical, expert/cognitive, and virtual/technical presences) and the extent they ...

• Professional identity trajectories of rural EFL teachers and their developmental needs 

  Bekereci̇ Şahin, Melike; Savaş, Perihan (Children Research Center, 2022)

  This paper presents a qualitative multiple case study on the professional identity development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers working at rural schools. The participants of the study as individual cases ...

• The relationship between self-regulated learning and EFL achievement in synchronous online language education 

  Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Yıldız, Merve; Atay, Derin (Asociacion Mexicana de Maestros de Ingles MEXTESOL A.C, 2022)

  The present study highlights the significance of online self-regulated learning (SRL) in language education by investigating its impact on English as a foreign language (EFL) achievement. It focuses on the self-reported ...

• An investigation of the university students' beliefs on the unenviable reputation of Turkish students in learning English 

  Solhi, Mehdi (International Balkan University, 2020)

  This study examined(1) whether there is a difference between male and female undergraduate English language teaching (ELT)students perception with regard to the reasons they attribute to the unenviable reputation of Turkish ...

• Mindfulness and sustainable consumption: Evidence from students in İstanbul 

  Kocapınar Batmaz, Fadime; Ergen, Ahu (Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2022)

  We are consuming more resources than ever, exceeding the planet's capacity for coming generations. This shows the important role of sustainable consumption for the planet. To understand consumption patterns mindfulness may ...

• The effect of pranayamic breathing as a positive psychology exercise on foreign language learning anxiety and test anxiety among language learners at tertiary level 

  Taşan, Mürselin; Mede, Enisa; Sadeghi, Karim (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)

  This study investigated the impact of pranayamic breathing (PB) as a positive psychology exercise on mitigating foreign language anxiety (FLLA) and test anxiety (TA) of undergraduate English students studying at a Turkish ...

• In search of keeping good teachers: Mediators of teacher commitment to the profession 

  Eğinli, İlknur (Selcuk University, 2021)

  To better understand teacher retention, the thrust of the study was to investigate the relationships among principal support, teacher efficacy, collective efficacy and practicing teachers' commitment to the profession. ...

• Exploring pre-service english teachers’ early teacher identity in relation to emerging ICT technologies training 

  Can, Tuncer; Karacan, Cemil Gökhan (2021)

  In a time when the use of digital technologies is an essential part of teaching, there is an increasing need for pre-service teachers to develop an identity that meets the requirements of the modern world. In accordance ...

• University students' multidimensional state boredom and strategies to cope with classroom boredom 

  Solhi, Mehdi (National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2021)

  This study sought to examine how university students' state boredom dimensions (i.e., disengagement, high arousal, low arousal, inattention, and time perception) and their boredom coping strategies (i.e., cognitive approach, ...

• Factors negatively affecting Turkish EFL learners' achievement: A gender-based exploratory study 

  Solhi, Mehdi (International Balkan University, 2020)

  The reasons for the Turkish students' poor foreign language achievements have long been a subject of discussion among educators. This is owing to the fact that Turkish students spend many years on learning English, starting ...

• Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of English language coursebooks at Turkish public high schools 

  Solhi, Mehdi; Mert, Yaren Zehra; Çelen, Zeliha; Kısa, Rabia (Hacettepe University, 2021)

  In this pre-use evaluation study, the long-term effectiveness of the contents of the English language coursebooks provided by the Ministry of Turkish National Education for high school students (i.e., 9th to 12th graders) ...

• Perceived social self-efficacy and foreign language anxiety among undergraduate english teacher candidates: The case of Turkey 

  Eğinli, İlknur; Solhi, Mehdi (Children's Research Center, 2020)

  This study sought to investigate (1) the perceived social self-efficacy (PSSE) levels of undergraduate English teacher candidates in Turkey, (2) the foreign language anxiety (FLA) levels of them, (3) the relationship between ...

• The effect of recorded oral feedback on EFL learners' writing 

  Solhi, Mehdi; Eǧinli, İlknur (Selcuk University, 2020)

  While there is general agreement among learners, teachers, and scholars that constructive feedback on writing is necessary to revision, there are fewer consensuses on how feedback should be given, when, by whom, and what ...

• Public speaking class anxiety and fear of negative evaluation: A study on EFL learners 

  Kesen Mutlu, Aynur; Keşli Dollar, Yeşim (Peter Lang AG, 2020)

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• Vocabulary learning strategies of Italian-Turkish bilingual students: Impact of simultaneous and sequential acquisition 

  Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Dikilitaş, Kenan (Sciendo, 2020)

  Vocabulary learning strategy domain has been one of the areas of research in the language learning strategy field. Bilinguals use different language and vocabulary learning strategies than monolinguals (Hong-Nam and Leavell, ...

• Evaluation of the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools 

  Solhi, Mehdi; Sak Masrı, Meryem; Şahin, Şeyda; Yılmaz, Hanife Selin (Selcuk University, 2020)

  This study sought to evaluate the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools. In so doing, a series of coursebooks used in English courses of the curriculum prepared by the Turkish Ministry ...

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