English Speaking Online in the Turkish Teaching Context:A Theoretical Approach

The world initiated a new era with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.Education all around the globe,including Turkey,was impacted to a great extent.Both teachers and learners were required to adapt to online education within a short period of time.Although previous studies had focused on the impacts of teaching English in general for teachers and learners,studies focusing on teaching of the speaking skills online particularly in the Turkish context was absent in the literature.Therefore,the gap which was to be considered appropriate for this research is related to comprehending the perceptions and challenges EFL teachers confronted while attempting to teach the speaking skills online within the Turkish context.This article aims to have a theoretical contribution to the current research,in order to see the significance of the Turkish context,as online teaching of English speaking was to be considered beneficial for learners,as it increased confidence for the interaction.

Higher Education in Taiwan:An Observation Through the Perspective of English Language Teaching

Globalization has developed into an ideological discourse that drives change,because of the perceived immediacy and need to adapt to a new world order.It has a significant impact on the political,social,economic,cultural,and educational aspects.A visible transition has also been occurring in higher education.The world has grown extremely competitive because of the expending of globalization.Universities all over the world have to enhance their competitiveness through Englishization in higher education.Taiwan is experiencing educational reforms in higher education,in a way in which it is similar to other Asian nations,in order to maintain its competitiveness in the world.This article focuses on how globalization exacerbates competitiveness around the world,particularly in the educational sectors.The aim of this study is to review and to define how globalization is affecting higher education and in what way it has an impact on education policy in the context of Taiwan’s higher education.The effects of globalization on global citizenship will also be examined,in order to give a full reflection.

Agnes Grey:A Cultural and Educational Critique

The aim of this study is to have an analysis of the plot and the characters in the novel,Agnes Grey,in terms of the perspectives of education and culture.Anne Brontë’s first novel focuses on the life of Agnes,who is a young governess living in the Victorian era.In the novel,the narrative shows a period of time in English literature,when industrialization has a significant impact on the aspects such as social life and education,in a way in which women experienced many kinds of struggles for holding on to their lives and reaching their dreams.Agnes Grey,the main character of the novel,came from a middle-class family.She lived to tell the adventures of starting her career as a governess,and the difficulties she experienced.It didn’t take long for Agnes,who started her first experience with the Bloomfield family,to face the rich upper-class culture and see the difficulties in educating children from another social class.The Murray family,with whom she stayed for a longer time,was the place where Agnes gained expression that extended into the adulthood.Agnes’teaching shows not only a kind of class struggle,but also a balance between the dialectical poles of the ideal and the reality.Agnes returned,in her adulthood,to her family with her teaching experiences.By keeping a concept of love in her mind,Agnes would be able to have the sense of reality in which culture and education came to offer.

Nature in Literary Texts

In this article,the authors aim to read several literary texts through the lens of Nature,Culture and Humanity.These literary texts are including a short story by Anthony Doerr’s The Shell Collector,two plays by William Shakespeare-King Lear and The Winter’s Tale,and four novels-namely,Orhan Pamuk’s The Red-haired Woman,Emily Brontë’s Weathering Height,Louis Aragon’s Paris Peasant and,the last but not the least,Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.Through reading these texts,the authors try to observe the relation between Nature and human,in a way which human beings can find freedom through the inspiration of Nature,as humanity can be expressed by artistic forms.

Aspects of Realism in Visual and Verbal Representations

In this article,the author reads three literary texts—Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice,Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party,and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,in order to theorise two aspects of realism in terms of visual and verbal representations.The first aspect of realism would be through physical events and movements.The second one is through the thinking process of a character.The essential point of using realism to read a text is not to see how real the description of a figure or an object is.Rather,as the author would argue,realism is to be understood as the way in which life is true to a character’s condition.