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Türkiye’deki Bir İngilizce Ders Kitabının Toplumdilbilimsel Bakış Açısı Temel Alınarak İncelenmesi

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 171 - 181, 03.08.2020

Abstract

İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra ortak dil olarak kabul gören İngilizcenin öğrenimi, günümüzde dünya çapında oldukça popülerdir (Christiansen, 2015). Dünya’da konuşulan tek ortak dil olarak kabul gören bu dilin öğretimi, birçok uzman ve araştırmacıların çalışmalarında yer almış ve tartışmalı bir konu haline gelmiştir. Bu doğrultuda, İngilizcenin öğretim sürecinde göz önünde bulundurulması gereken noktalar öne sürülmüştür. Bu çalışmada, Alptekin ve McKay’in öne sürdükleri noktalar (2002; 2011) ve Türkiye’deki devlet liselerinde on birinci sınıf öğrencileri tarafından yabancı dil eğitimi için kullanılan ve Milli Eğitim Bakanlığınca öğrencilere ücretsiz olarak tahsis edilen bir İngilizce ders kitabı, ülkenin dil öğretimi açısından mevcut durumunu gözler önüne sermek amacıyla incelenmiştir. Bu sürecin sonucu olarak çalışma boyunca detaylı bir şekilde ele alınan her bir kriter göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, incelenen ders kitabının birçok yetersiz kalan yönü olduğu ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu sonuç ışığında, bahsi geçen ders kitabının geliştirilebilmesi ve Türkiye’de yabancı dil eğitimi alan öğrenciler için daha faydalı bir kaynak haline gelebilmesi için çeşitli önerilerde bulunulmuştur.

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Evaluation of an English Course Book in Turkey Based upon Sociolinguistic Aspects

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 171 - 181, 03.08.2020

Abstract

In this day and age, learning English has become quite popular all over the world as it has been accepted to be used as a lingua franca after the World War II (Christiansen, 2015). Being the lingua franca of the world, the teaching of the language has become a controversial issue. Accordingly, what should be taken into consideration in the teaching process has been studied. In the present study, the design of which is qualitative, a checklist (Atar & Erdem, in press) formed via the implications of sociolinguistics were used as a basis, and an English coursebook that is used by eleventh graders in state high schools in Turkey for foreign language education and provided by the Ministry of National Education freely, was evaluated in terms of English language teaching. As a result of the evaluation process, it was revealed that the coursebook has deficiencies, considering the criteria in the checklist. In light of that result, various suggestions have been made so that the coursebook can be improved in terms of sociolinguistic aspects.

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  • Alptekin, C. (2002). Towards intercultural communicative competence in ELT. ELT Journal, 56(1), 57-64.
  • Atar, C. & Erdem, C. (in press). The Analysis of course books: a sociolinguistic perspective. Research in Pedagogy.
  • Baker, W. (2012). English as a lingua franca in Thailand: Characterisations and implications. Englishes in Practice, 1(1), 18-27.
  • Bayyurt, Y. (2013). Current perspectives on sociolinguistics and English language education. The Journal of Language Learning and Teaching, 3(1), 69-78.
  • Cambridge University Press. (2008). Cambridge Online Dictionary. In Cambridge Dictionary Online. Retrieved on November 4, 2019, from https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/ english/culture.
  • Christiansen, T. (2015). The rise of English as the global lingua franca: Is the world heading towards greater monolingualism or new forms of plurilingualism? Lingue Linguaggi, 15, 129-154.
  • Coulmas, F. (1996). The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Writing Systems. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Holmes, J. 1992. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. London: Longman.
  • Jenkins, J. (2006). Current perspectives on teaching world Englishes and English as a lingua franca. TESOL Quarterly, 40(1), 157-181.
  • Kachru, B. (2006). World Englishes. In B. Kachru, Y. Kachru, & C. L. Nelson (Eds.), The handbook of World Englishes (pp. 521-528). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
  • Kırkgöz, Y. (2007). English language teaching in Turkey: Policy changes and their implementations. RELC Journal, 38(2), 216-228.
  • McKay, S. L. (2011). English as an international lingua franca pedagogy. In Handbook of research in second language teaching and learning (pp. 140-157). Routledge.
  • Pakir, A. (2009). English as a lingua franca: analyzing research frameworks in international English, world Englishes, and ELF. World Englishes, 28(2), 224-235.
  • Paoletti, I. (2011). Sociolinguistics. Universidade Nova de Lisboa: Sociopedia isa.
  • Romaine, S. (1994). Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. London: Oxford University Press.
  • Trudgill, P. (1974). Linguistic change and diffusion: Description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography. Language in Society, 3(2), 215-246.
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Primary Language English
Journal Section Articles
Authors

Lale Gökçe Genç

Sabiha Meral This is me 0000-0002-5800-3322

Publication Date August 3, 2020
Submission Date March 7, 2020
Acceptance Date July 14, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 6 Issue: 2

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APA Genç, L. G., & Meral, S. (2020). Evaluation of an English Course Book in Turkey Based upon Sociolinguistic Aspects. PESA Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, 6(2), 171-181.

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