Blar i Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (HF-IGIS) på forfatter "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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Teacher Identity (re)Construction in Collaborative Bilingual Education: The Emergence of Dyadic Identity
Dikilitas, Kenan; Bahrami, Vahid (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Teacher identity construction has long been investigated within the field of English language teaching. However, little is known about how particularities and demands of co-teaching language and content in bilingual education ... -
Translanguaging as a way to fostering EFL learners’ criticality in a hybrid course design
Yuzlu, Muhammet Yasar; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This case study examines the growth of criticality in three English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners through a hybrid course design which involves a translanguaging space for the development of reading and listening ... -
Translanguaging in the development of EFL learners’ foreign language skills in Turkish context
Yuzlu, Muhammet Yaşar; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This study investigates the potential impact of translanguaging pedagogy on EFL learners’ four language skills, as well as their perceptions towards its in-class implementation as a pedagogy. The study was conducted for ... -
Uncovering Fears, Challenges, and Motives of an Adult Learner with Dyslexia through Metaphors
Coşkun, Zeynep Nesrin; Dikilitas, Kenan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This case study aims to explore English language vocabulary acquisition experiences and conceptualizations of a single adult English language learner with mild dyslexia by drawing on metaphors and semi-structured interviews. ...