This paper examines how children and teachers negotiate the official Turkish only language policy as they manage their linguistic resources (Turkish and Kurmanji) in one Turkish preschool serving predominantly emergent bilingual Kurdish minority children. Using a critical ethnographic lens to language-in-education policy making (Martin-Jones and…

With the conversion of Turks to Islam, it is seen that Islamic works began to emerge in the field of Turkish language. Among these works, Qur'an translations have an important place. Qur'an translations are in the forms of tafsirs (commentaries), surah tafsirs and interlinear translations. Although interlinear translations are primarily seen in…

The aim of this study was to adapt the Career-related Teacher Support Scale to Turkish and to carry out validity and reliability studies. Data were collected from a total of 752 high school students studying in Turkey. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the scale had an excellent fit. Students' perceptions of career-related teacher support…

The aim of this study is to investigate the cognitive process dimension of the revised Bloom's taxonomy in the question preparation of prospective primary school teachers in fourth grade Turkish and mathematics courses. This research is a descriptive study carried out following the survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The study…

This study aims to examine teacher's beliefs about Syrian children's Turkish language learning and teacher's language strategies in a monolingual preschool classroom located in a multilingual city, Siirt Turkey. This ethnographic study was conducted between October 2019 and January 2020 in a multilingual city. The data included fieldnotes kept…

Textbooks play an undeniable role in education and training. The selection of textbooks, which are crucial materials for both teachers and learners in the teaching-learning process, requires careful consideration of specific criteria. Textbooks wield an effect on intrinsic motivation factors like interest, desire, and curiosity. They also impact…

This study aims to adapt the "Fear House" scale developed by Zaharova and Panfilova (1999) for determining children's fear to the Turkish culture. Scholars and experts usually prefer to make children draw things to detect their fears. This technique can be used as an alternative for children who do not like to draw. The study group…

This article aims to adapt the Flexible Thinking in Learning (FTL) scale developed by Barak and Levenberg in 2016 to Turkish culture The FTL scale, whose original language is English, consists of three sub-dimensions: "Acceptance of Learning Technologies", "OpenMindedness in Learning" and "Adaptation to New Learning…

The purpose of this paper was to examine the role of social Funds of Identity (FoI), as expressed in significant others, in the promotion of language learning for a young refugee-background child. It is based on an ethnographic study that spanned across two years, shortly after the relocation of the child and her family in the U.S. The findings…

Turkism is an intellectual movement that emphasizes the history, culture, language and national identity of the Turkish nation. The concept of Turkism in social studies lessons has an important place in terms of students learning their historical origins, national values and cultural heritage. This concept is especially used as an effective tool…

This study was conducted to develop a measurement tool to achieve epilepsy self-management in teachers and examine its Turkish psychometric properties. This descriptive, comparative, correlational, and methodological study was conducted between May and August 2022 with 346 teachers between the ages of 24 and 67 working in public schools selected…

This study investigates the current state of teaching Turkish as a second language (TSL) in primary schools and analyzes the linguistic, personal, social, and academic needs of bilingual students. Utilizing a convergent parallel mixed methods design, qualitative data were collected through observations, student products, researcher diaries, and…

This research was conducted as a case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, to determine how prospective Turkish teachers explain the concepts in their minds about writing skills. The study group consists of 60 3rd-grade prospective teachers studying at the Department of Turkish Language Education of Hatay Mustafa Kemal…

This study aimed to analyze the articles examining five teaching sets commonly used in teaching Turkish as a foreign language from different perspectives by using meta-synthesis method and to reveal the research tendency in the field. For this purpose, 136 articles published in different journals in the ULAKBIM TR index, Dergi Park, ASOS, and…

Texts are indispensable tools used in a language teaching environment. They help students learn both implicitly and explicitly. This learning activity guides the future of the student. The individualization processes of memories that are combined together with qualified texts would be shorter and more qualified. There are many affective approaches…