Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Dikilitas, Kenan"
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Bilingual education teachers and learners in a preschool context: Instructional and interactional translanguaging spaces
Dikilitas, Kenan; Bahrami, Vahid; Nil Tugce, Erbakan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study explores how bilingual education teachers' flexible delivery of instructional translanguaging within a bilingual preschool in the predominately monolingual context of Turkey could provide children with a space ... -
Development of verbal creativity by bilingual and English as foreign language learners in kindergarten to 8th grade schools
Yemez, Nazmiye; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bilingualism has long been within the scope of creativity studies that investigate creativity and problem solving. This study aims to explore the possible effect of bilingualism on the verbal creativity of English language ... -
Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging
Webb, Rhian; Yuksel, Dogan; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study examines discipline-specific attitudinal differences in translanguaging when studying through English Medium Instruction following a mixed methods research design. The quantitative data for this study came from ... -
EFL Teachers' Sources of Remote Teaching Anxiety: Insights and Implications for EFL Teacher Education
Akbana, Yunus Emre; Dikilitas, Kenan (Journal article, 2022-02)Introduction: This study aims to explore an under-researched issue; namely, remote teaching anxiety. Methods: This study employed a sequential mixed-methods exploratory design where participants initially reported their ... -
Evaluating an Online Professional Learning Community as a Context for Professional Development in Classroom-based Research
Göktürk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study examines how an online training into teacher research has been evaluated in relation to the three main elements of the community of inquiry framework (CoI): teaching, social, and cognitive presences. We held ... -
Examining the Interplay between English Language Teachers’ Mindset and Researcher Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Use of Action Research
Ilknur, Eginli; Dikilitas, Kenan (Journal article, 2022)Action research offers teachers an empowering and transformative experience of professional engagement. Teachers engaging in action research are argued to develop their inquiry skills and to adopt a growth mindset in ... -
Exploring the Practical Impacts of Research Engagement on English Language Teaching: Insights from an Online Community of Practice
Dikilitas, Kenan; Gokturk Saglam, Asli Lidice (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Practitioner research has been gaining prominence as a means for professional development (PD) since it provides teachers with opportunities to reflect on, comprehend, and transform their practices. However, there is a ... -
Identity Formation and Career Prospects of Bilingual Professionals: Blending Language Skills to Create Novel Applications to Career Pursuits
Ural, Onur; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The most widely believed misconception about bilingualism purports that exposure to a second language within the community will automatically yield bilingual children, who can apply their balanced language skills in every ... -
Identity tensions of in-service teacher educators: A narrative inquiry
Eryilmaz, Rukiye; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-12)Despite the growing research on teachers’ identity tensions, the tensions experienced by teacher educators, especially that of in-service teacher educators, remain underexplored. To address this issue, this narrative inquiry ... -
The impact of translanguaging-driven training on in-service EFL teachers: Complexity theory prism
Yuzlu, Muhammet Yasar; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-07)This study examines the impact of a translanguaging-driven in-service training on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ professional identity re-construction. Grounded in complexity theory, the study is based on ... -
In-Service EFL teachers’ engagement in reflexive practice via video enhanced observation
Aslan, Ayca; Erten, Ismail Hakki; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Building upon the interrelationship between learning and changing, this study investigates how cyclical engagement in reflexive practice influences the teachers’ professional development. We implemented our video-enhanced ... -
Investigating the Integration of Digital Tools into English Language Instuctions of Young Learners
Unlu, Hazal Gonca (Master thesis, 2024) -
Learning To Become An English Language Teacher: Navigating The Self Through Peer Practicum
Comoglu, Irem; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Pre-service English language teachers' school practicum is key to their learning to become a teacher. However, a number of challenges are observed in its implementation. This paper addresses this issue by investigating how ... -
Norwegian EFL teachers’ pedagogical views and functional uses of L1 in lower secondary level
Frestad, Isabel (Master thesis, 2022)Language use in the EFL classroom has been a controversial issue among language experts and practitioner-teachers (Sundari & Febriyanti, 2021). Although there are many related studies on L1 use in the EFL classroom, they ... -
Online peer observation: Reflections on a process-based job- embedded professional development activity through video recordings
Inceçay, Volkan; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Guided by the sociocultural approach to teacher learning, this collective case study describes in-depth online peer observation experiences of six English language teachers and how they reflected on the scheme carried out ... -
Perceptions of the students and the teachers towards the use of code switching in EFL classrooms
Dikilitas, Kenan; Karakaya, Merve (Journal article, 2020)The purpose of this study is to shed light on the perceptions of the teachers and the students towards the use of code switching in EFL classrooms where English was a medium of instruction. Besides, it mentioned the functions ... -
Pre-service Teachers’ Digital Experiences through Digital Pedagogical Practices in Norway
Zilli, Pattamawan Jimarkon; Wanphet, Phalangchok; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Digital skills are one of the key competences outlined in The European Reference Framework of Key Competences for Lifelong Learning prescribed by the EU in 2006. Integration of digital tools and resources into the classroom ... -
Preparatory School Teachers' Self-Directed Online Professional Development
Ballidag, Sezgin; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This case study investigates how teachers render digital professional development in digital environments by interviewing with three preparatory school English language teachers voluntarily engaged in online professional ... -
Preschool English teachers gaining bilingual competencies in a monolingual context
Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This study examines three preschool teachers’ developmental journeys from Foreign Language to Bilingual English teachers who participated in an in-service training over the course of nine months set in preschool education ... -
A scoping review of action research in higher education: implications for research-based teaching
Jensen, Ida Bruheim; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Several scholars argue for a closer association between research and teaching in higher education, but it is unclear how research-based teaching can be actualized. Action research (AR) offers designs that position students ...