TY - JOUR TT - Learners' Perceptions on Innovations in Language Teaching and Learning and Expected Ones AU - Akarsu, Oktay PY - 2019 DA - June JF - Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi JO - ATASOBED PB - Ataturk University WT - DergiPark SN - 1304-4990 SP - 769 EP - 782 VL - 23 IS - 2 LA - en KW - Innovation KW - Language Teaching and Learning KW - Technology KW - the Internet N2 - The very buzzword'innovation' has just come up recently. With its broadest meaning, 'innovation'is a kind of implementation of new ideas in almost all areas such as industry,education, aviation, banking and so on. The technology and the Internet aregrowing very rapidly, and have continued to change people lives. These changeshave provided many innovations in almost every aspects of people's lives. Forinstance, although the phenomenon 'social networking' exploded recently, mostof the Internet users around the world use social networking nowadays. Thedevelopment of technology and the Internet has made Language Teaching andLearning easier for people. Having said that, the term “e-learning” is coinedto explain language teaching and language learning through the Internet viatechnological equipment. The changes in technology world have inevitablychanged the accustomed Language Teaching and Learning methods and approachesand naturally have made the language teaching and learning easier. This mainlyqualitative study aimed to find out the perceptions of the learners, inlanguage teaching and learning, towards currentinnovations and possible innovations in the near future. CR - Carless, D. (2013). Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0540. CR - Chong, C. S. (2016, June 01). Ten innovations that have changed English language teaching. https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/ten-innovations-have-changed-english-language-teaching CR - Gilbert, J. (2013). English for academic purposes. Innovations in learning technologies for English language teaching, 119-144. CR - Hutchins, W.J., & Somers, H.L. (1992). An introduction to machine translation. http://www.hutchinsweb.me.uk/IntroMT-1.pdf CR - Popa, L., Ioan, Preda, Gheorghe, & Monica. (2011, May 24). Theoretical Approach of the Concept Of Innovation. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/bbuwpaper/29.htm CR - Richards, J. C. & Rodgers, Th., S. (2003). Approaches and Methods in language teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge: CUP. CR - Waters, A. (2009). Managing innovation in English language education, state of the art review. Language Teaching, 42(4), 421-458. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026144480999005X CR - Zhang, W. Y., & Cheung, Y. L. (2018). “Researching innovations in English Language Writing Instruction: A state-of-the-art review”. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 9, 80-89. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ataunisosbil/issue//547693 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/770808 ER -