The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of concept teaching with Component Display Theory (CDT) on middle school seventh-grade students’ academic achievements in Turkish lesson and to explore students’ views on this theory. To this end, the study used a mixed methods research design which combines quantitative and qualitative research methods. The sample consisted...
In this research, it is aimed to evaluate the achievements in the 2019 Turkish Language Curriculum in terms of Webb's level of knowledge. The study was carried out according to the qualitative research method. In this context, document review method was used. The data collection tool of the research consists of the Turkish Lesson Curriculum published in 2019. The obtained data...
Children's books have a special place in the child's unique world. Because children meet many different characters through children's literature works. These characters serve as role models for the child due to their positive qualities. Therefore, writers of children's literature take part in the world of the child through the book and offer them tips on choosing the good...
The articles in the field of social sciences appear as special texts that contain intense knowledge, expertise and competence as much as special field translation in terms of terms and concepts, and the style of their authors that can be compared with literary works in a stylistic way. Social science translations also fulfill many requirements of the technical translation with...
With the appearance of translation whose existence is quite old in scientific field and with the establishment of the departments under the names of translation studies or translation and interpreting, the doors of these departments have been opened for would-be translators, and thus the adventure of academic translation has started for the scholars and the students. Based on the...
Bu çalışmada, Nikolay Gogol’ün Ölü Canlar yapıtının ilki 1950, sonuncusu 2010 yılında yayımlanan altı çevirisi incelenmiştir. Ölü Canlar’la Dante’nin İlahi Komedya’sı arasındaki metinlerarası bağlantılarla ilgili çalışmalar Rus yazınbilimsel literatüründe özellikle 1980’li yıllardan itibaren hız kazanmış, Ölü Canlar’ın hem genel yapısı itibariyle İlahi Komedya’ya öykündüğünü, hem...
Audio description as a form of accessibility and a topic widely researched in the field of translation studies has been increasingly attracting interest in our country. Audio description is a process making media products accessible in appropriate formats to the visually impaired individuals. Domestic comedy films are one media where audio description is utilized extensively...
This study focuses on the concept of translation competence, which develops further with professionalization following the translation education and evolves into the concept of translator competence in practice. For this purpose, the word “competence” was first defined from different perspectives and the synonyms of the term were explained. After that, the linguistic competence...
Learning is a lifetime act, and it is not free of problems. Although problems or difficulties experienced in this process could be perceived as barriers to move further, they can be in fact new opportunities to gain more awareness and explore solutions, and thus, to make learning a conscious and sound process. Therefore, this study focuses on the students’ difficulties in doing...
This study is concerned with a comparative analysis of the Turkish translations of John Fowles’s novel, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, (Fransız Teğmenin Kadını by Aslı Biçen and Askerin Kadını by Nihal Yeğinobalı), with special focus on how allusions were handled in their translations. Within this context, as a major type of intertextuality, allusions will be the central focus of...
Turkish is an agglutinative language in which agglutinations determine the meaning of sentences. For this reason, grammatical case suffixes play a significant role in constructing semantically proper sentences. In this regard, learners of Turkish as a foreign language are supposed to dwell on meanings of case markers rather than structures because case marking suffixes have lots...
Due to the exhibition of a great example of homeland struggle, The Second World War, which is the named as the Great Homeland War in the USSR, takes its place in the historical records with heroism, courage and devotion of the Soviet people during four years of its domination, as well as with series of policies implemented by the administration. The Soviet Union, under the...
The concept of time reflects an almost limitless and endless field of study. In this respect, in order to understand the concept of time and its meanings clearly, it should be examined within the framework of various concepts such as context, intertextual relations, type of actions, aspect, modality. In the framework of three main tenses, the future tense structures in language...
The city of Peterburg where has a important political and social skills of Russian history, was built by Peter the Great, and become a center of Russian politics and high society. Peterburg has a important city image in Russian literature from the beginning. Alekxander Sergeyevich Pushkin, who is a big fan of Peterburg, is a basis of Russian literature and the city of Peterburg...
In this article, the concept of ethos was used to highlight the three characters
Due to the importance of English in the global scale, English has been included in curriculum and taught from kindergarten to high school in Turkey for many years. Despite all the time, money and energy invested, students cannot pass English proficiency exam offered by their universities and are obliged to enroll in one-year English preparatory (prep) program at universities. The...
Martin Amis is one of the greatest contemporary British writers. His 1991 novel Time’s Arrow is an exciting work that gives detailed experiences about the horror event of the Holocaust. The dialogue in the novel occurs in reverse; thus, the reader should be keen when reading to understand simple conversations well. Martin Amis believes that the Holocaust is the central event of...
This article higlights warmheartedness of a female character that causes the moral revival of a teenage boy after his robbery crime factor to buy himself blue suede shoes as portrayed in Langton Hughes’ “Thank You, M’am” (1958). Although the woman becomes extremely angry and flaming in a short process after the robbery, she becomes kindhearted towards the child afterwards. After...
The association between film and literature has always been attractive since literature expresses ideas, emotions, and experiences. While films’ adaptation into novels—regarded as the film’s textualization—and adopting a novel into a film, it is natural to find differences and similarities; they mutually influence one another. Dead Poets Society, as a film and as a novel, is...
As a form of critical reading-writing and analysis, New Historicism, which problematizes historiography, has gained widespread notice since 1980s as a result of Stephen Greenblatt’s studies. New Historicism not only subverts fictional quality of historical texts and claims of objectivity of history in dealing with the text under analysis but it also subjects literary works based...
Spoken and written languages have showed a great variety as a reflection of the fact that Malta has hosted different civilizations throughout the history. Maltese, a member of a Semitic language family, consists of Arabic and Italian words and is written in Latin letters. It has been difficult for this language to acquire the most appropriate alphabet as it combines elements from...
Hafiz Ibrahim and Mehmet Akif Ersoy, who were very similar to each other in terms of both the environment they lived in and the subjects they dealt with in their poems, are among the leading poets of their time. The most fundamental element that feeds their poems is society. These two distinguished poets, who differ from their contemporaries in terms of their style and subject...
This paper tackles an analytical and a stylistic study to al-Farazdaq’s poem when he lamented his nephew Mohammed. al-Farazdaq was known for being a very tough person and he, also, was famous for his poetic dispute with Jareer. Hence, this poem was a prominent benchmark in his literary works. Moreover, this paper aims to study the subjective content of this poem and to uncover...
This study is focuses on the main character Dr. Ellen Roth in Wulf Dorn’s novel “The Psychiatrist” who works as a psychiatrist in a Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics hospital named the Forest Clinic. Roth lives a normal life with her boyfriend Christopher who is also her colleague. The novel “The Psychiatrist” authored by German writer Wulf Dorn in 2009 will be dealt with in the...
Cultures that have rich immigration histories usually develop branches of literature which narrates the experiences they have gone through. These stories are often told by those who have immigration background. Germany is one of the most developed countries in the world, and among others, the contribution of Turkish immigrants to that success is seen as an undeniable fact today...