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Book Part Cognitive Reading Strategies(2019) İnal, BülentThe Book, “Contemporary Issues in ELT” aims to introduce the new trends of the last decade. All the chapters are original papers and attempt to propose solutions to learning challenges in language teaching. The authors promote and concentrate on the CEFR, learner autonomy, nonverbal communication, learning anxiety, problem-based learning, constructivism, testing, vocabulary, and the teaching of reading. Each chapter starts with learning objectives to stimulate the learners and ends with discussion questions. We hope that this format will help the readers comprehend these new ideas and trends deeply and reflect upon them carefully.Article Configuration of Transient Shelters As Alternative Spaces Through Nomadic Acts in Doris Lessing'S(Cyprus International University, 2019) Güvenç, Ö. Ü.Doris Lessing's short story "An Old Woman and Her Cat" from her collection, The Temptation of Jack Orkney, revolves around the nomadic experiences of an old and homeless woman in various places and her survival under poor living circumstances with her cat. The places occupied by the old woman in this story such as the Council flats, the room in the slum and the ruined flat in a wealthy neighbourhood cannot be considered as proper homes where people have a sense of belonging; rather, they are just material places she tries to appropriate as shelters temporarily on the way without a feeling of warmth and attachment to them. Focusing on the woman and the cat's relationship with their surrounding provides a discussion on space and nomadism within the framework of Henri Lefebvre's spatial tripartite - the perceived, the conceived and the lived - which is related to Rosi Braidotti's theory on nomadism. It also reveals the social norms and values, which disregard an old woman and her cat's struggle for life in a metropolis. Therefore, this article aims to discuss not only the material qualities of transient places in London and their conceived perspective which segregates the poor and the homeless from the wealthy but also the old woman's configuration of alternative spaces for herself out of the ruins without a sense of home.Article Vampire versus the empire: Bram Stoker's reproach of fin-de-siecle Britain in dracula(Cambridge Univ. Press., 2018) Koç, Ertuğrul; Demir, YağmurMuch has been said about Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), the out-of-tradition exemplar of the Gothic which, perhaps, has had a more pervasive effect on our understanding of life and death, gender roles and identity, and sex and perversity than any other work of the genre. The vampire from the so-called dark ages has become a symbol standing for the uncontrollable powers acting on us and also for all the discarded, uncanny phenomena in human nature and history. The work, however, has usually been taken by the critics of Gothic literature as “a paradigmatic Gothic text” (Brewster 488) representing the social, psychological, and sexual traumas of the late-nineteenth century. Hence, it has been analysed as a work “breaking [the] taboos, [and in need of being] read as an expression of specifically late Victorian concerns” (Punter and Byron 231). The text has also been seen as “reinforc[ing] readers’ suspicions that the authorities (including people, institutions and disciplines) they trust are ineffectual” (Senf 76). Yet, it has hardly ever been taken as offering an alternative Weltanschauung in place of the decaying Victorian ethos. True, Dracula is a fin-de-siècle novel and deals with the turbulent paradigmatic shift from the Victorian to the modern, and Stoker, by creating the lecherous vampire and his band as the doppelgängers of the sexually sterile and morally pretentious bourgeois types (who are, in fact, inclined to lascivious joys), reveals the moral hypocrisy and sexual duplicity of his time. But, it is also true that by juxtaposing the “abnormal” against the “normal” he targets the utilitarian bourgeois ethics of the empire: aware of the Victorian pragmatism on which the concept of the “normal” has been erected, he, with an “abnormal” historical figure (Vlad Drăculea of the House of Drăculești, 1431–76) who appears as Count Dracula in the work, attacks the ethical superstructure of Britain which has already imposed on the Victorians the “pathology of normalcy” (Fromm 356). Hence, Stoker's choice of title character, the sadistic Vlad the Impaler, who fought against the Ottoman Empire in the closing years of the Middle Ages, and his anachronistic rendering of Dracula as a Gothic invader of the Early Middle Ages are not coincidental (Figure 8). In the world of the novel, this embodiment of the early and late paradigms is the antagonistic power arrayed against the supposedly stable, but in reality fluctuating, fin-de-siècle ethos. However, by turning this personification of the “evil” past into a sexual enigma for the band of men who are trying to preserve the Victorian patriarchal hegemony, Stoker suggests that if Victorian sterile faith in the “normal” is defeated through a historically extrinsic (in fact, currently intrinsic) anomaly, a more comprehensive social and ethical epoch that has made peace with the past can be started.Article Öfkeli genç adam - Holden-(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2006) Öner, Uğur; Yılmaz Kurt, ZeynepBu çalışmada, Salinger’ın 1950’lerin başında basılan ve genç roman kahramanının ergenlik dönemi bunalımlarını çarpıcı bir biçimde yansıtan romanı, Gönülçelen’in Amerika ve diğer ülkelerdeki yankıları üzerinde durulmuştur. Baş kahraman, Holden’ın asi ve tutarsız davranışlarının psikolojik açıdan incelenmesi, Holden’ı bu ruh haline iten nedenler ve Holden’ın tüm yaşadığı bu sorunlara yaklaşımı ve nasıl üstesinden geldiği irdelenmiştir.Article “Virtue’s commonwealth”: gendering the royalist cultural rebellion in the English interregnum (1649-1660)(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2006) Coussens, CatherineHistorians and literary critics have acknowledged the ways in which royalism during the English civil war period came to be associated with the “feminisation” of Stuart court culture, and of the king’s cause as a whole. However, they have failed to attend adequately to the deliberate focus on women and female cultural authority within the literature associated with the “royalist cultural rebellion” (the movement that sought to preserve and recall the ethos and identity of the banished Stuart court). While male poets adopted a self-mocking tone when advertising their artistic dependence on female patrons, alluding self-consciously to their own “feminised” retirement, women’s active role in commissioning, preserving, disseminating and composing royalist literature suggests that their cultural importance was enhanced by the conditions of the Interregnum. Both royalist and parliamentarian propagandists exploited anti-feminist satire to condemn what they saw as illegitimate forms of government. However, royalist traditionalists overtly connected elite royalist women with the ethos and situation of the eclipsed Stuart monarchy, and sought to address a burgeoning female readership by stressing women’s advantages under the Crown. Royalist women in turn responded to these cultural constructions of royalism and femininity, creating powerful authorial identities that would remain potent after the Restoration in 1660Article Yabancı dil öğretim ve öğreniminde eski ve yeni yöntemlere yeni bir bakış(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2006) Tosun, CengizDuring the early years of the millennium, it will be useful for us to understand better the future of learning and teaching of foreign languages by scanning shortly what happened in the last quarter of the 20th C. just before making predictions about what kinds of trend and novelty will take place in them. Indeed, the facts experienced in the last quarter led to some drastic changes in our beliefs about the nature of language and learning as well as the theories in education, and which has led inevitably to change in the ways of practice in classroom due to the novelties concluded by the scientific research. Before the assessment of the principal methods, we should know something about the traditional three-fold concepts of teaching and learning such as approach, method and technique and about their reconceptualized forms called approach, design and procedure respectively. The results achieved through the traditional methods and approaches in the field of foreign language teaching and learning have satisfied no one in spite of the unending efforts by students and teachers, great cost to schools and parents. Most of the students who spent their years in classrooms to learn a foreign language cannot use the language or go on repeating the predictable responses by grammatical patterns and certain vocabulary unaware of the communication expected of them outside the classroom. Although the students have got considerable knowledge about the language, they do not know how to use that knowledge for communication. That is why they should be helped with the teachers who will tell them that language is not only of grammatical patterns and some vocabulary, and who bring in classroom the examples of authentic language of the real outer world, and who will have the students use the language communicatively, and who are equipped with the novel ideas, trends and creative practices through new approaches, designs and procedures.Article Arab sources on the life of galen(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2008) Starr, PeterThis paper contains a summary of the chapter on Galen’s life provided by Ibn Abi Usaybi’a. The Galen section shows the impressive range of the material on which a medieval Syrian physician, historian and bibliophile, could draw. Where the versions and fragments of information available to him are otherwise lost, the details he provides are of particular importance. At the same time it is clear that in the East the biography of Galen underwent some curious transformations, just as a large number of spurious works were in circulation. This paper also looks at little-known references to Galen which show his significance for medieval writersArticle Salvation through beauty: Iris Murdoch’s new religion in a godless universe(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2008) Yılmaz Kurt, ZeynepNovelist Iris Murdoch is also a modern philosopher, who is aware of the moral dilemma of the scientific age. For her, morality is the only means of salvation in this age, as she considers morals not related with religion but with metaphysics. Thus, any moral attempt to achieve good is a transcendental experience. This paper explores Murdoch’s moral philosophy with reference to her artist character Tim Reede in Nuns and Soldiers.Article British national identity, topicality and tradition in the poetry of Simon Armitage(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2008) Coussens, CatherineThis paper explores the treatment of British national identity, topicality and tradition in the work of Simon Armitage, alongside broader issues concerning contemporary public poetry in Britain. Armitage, with Carol Ann Duffy, is a major candidate for the position of Poet Laureate in 2009. Both poets have explored constructions of national identity in their work, but it is Armitage who has located himself more assertively within the arena of public, national poetry. Despite his focus on modern life-styles and discourses, and deployment of the mass media to disseminate his poetry into non-literary public spaces, Armitage is particularly sensitive to literary and cultural tradition. Within his work, which is deliberately accessible and contemporary, tradition is always at play in terms of allusion, response and interrogation. In this sense, his poetry both occupies and challenges notions of canonicity and traditional conceptions of British national identity. His recent focus on the theme of conflict also works to expose the inadequacy of mainstream assertions of continuity and meaning when constructing national identity. Armitage places Britishness and British literature within a broader ‘Millennial’ schema of eclipse, destruction and regeneration. For Armitage the recurrence of the theme of conflict throughout literary history both connects the literature of the present day with that of the past and emphasises the future’s instability and eternal lack of resolution. Therefore, Armitage’s modern translations of canonical texts like the Odyssey and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight foreground the fact that disharmony and conflict are, and have always been, national preoccupationsArticle The “Morally Ideal Woman” in Middlemarch(Çankaya Üniversitesi, 2012) Demir, YağmurAs a Victorian novelist, George Eliot depicts the 19th century English society and its system of values with respect to class stratification in her novel Middlemarch. Three main social classes of English society- aristocracy, middle-class, and working class- are rendered in detail with the help of three women figures representing the classes. With realistic representations related to society, Eliot lets the reader reach conclusions about the events and characters. The readers are introduced to the moral values of the classes, and the implicit moral teachings of Eliot. In this frame, Dorothea, Rosamond, and Mary are portrayed as the products of their classes’ moral values, aristocracy, middle class and working class respectively