This study is designed to explore how literature lessons are perceived by pre-service English language teaching (ELT) students and discusses the findings in terms of student perceptions and educational objectives. The participants were 30 Turkish EFL senior students. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were used to collect data in order to validate the findings. The results showed that pre-service teachers highly valued the literature courses. The participants, however, recommended that the literature courses should not be restricted to the canonic texts and aim to develop linguistic abilities through critical literary readings and cultural interpretative efforts.

Near-synonyms are semantically similar words, but they are not always interchangeable, having a variety of collocational and semantic behaviours. Tertiary level EFL learners’ use of near synonyms demonstrates significant differences in terms of word choices. This article investigates (1) the level of semantic prosodic (SP) awareness in EFL learners, (2) the correlation between their SP awareness and English proficiency levels, (3) the ways EFL learners use semantic prosodic features in their speech and written productions and how they cope with challenges in SP and (4) the factors affecting their SP knowledge. The data were analysed quantitively and qualitatively. A proficiency test, a semantic prosody test, an open-ended questionnaire and a structured interview were used respectively. The findings reveal that learners’ SP knowledge correlates with language proficiency, but their awareness levels have little to do with the proficiency. One implication for the curriculum developers is that they should consider including relevant content related to the semantic prosody in syllabi so that the students will be able to create semantically relevant sentences like their native counterparts. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0798/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Karadeniz bölgesi ve yörenin kendine has insanları birçok roman, hikaye, Ģarkı ve filmde konu edilmiĢtir. Bunlardan biri olan Türk-Macar ortak yapımı Kalandar Soğuğu (2015) ise dünya çapında beğeni toplayarak dikkat çeken bir çalıĢma olmuĢtur. Senaryosunu Mustafa Kara ve Bilal Sert"in yazdığı film son dönem Türk sinema yapımları arasında yer edinmeyi baĢarmıĢ önemli bir sinematik anlatı olarak kayda geçmiĢtir. Film sıradan insanın yaĢantısı aracılığıyla evrensel temaların iĢlendiği gerçekçi bir temsildir. Bu çalıĢmanın amacı, Kalandar Soğuğu"nu sinematik gerçekçilik perspektifinden anlatıbilimsel olarak incelemektir. ÇalıĢma, anlatının eleĢtirel okumalarına kuramsal katkı sunması yönünden özgündür. Sinematik ve anlatısal analizde Bazin (1967), Chatman (1990) ve Greimas (1982)"ın terminolojileri kullanılmıĢtır. ÇalıĢmanın anlatıbilimsel bulguları Ģunlardır: (a) film sıradan karakterlerin hikâyesini anlatır, ancak asal insanlık durumunu gösterir; (b) bir metin olarak anlatı, önceki metinlerle metinler arası iliĢkilere sahiptir ve sinema dilinin bugüne kadar ki gerçekçi temsil deneyimlerinden yararlanır; (c) film gerçekçi sinematik bir anlatı olarak, "senaryo", "sinematik imge", "kurgu" ve "müzik" unsurlarının salt sentezini yapmanın ötesine geçerek gerçeğin Ģiirini yansıtan sahnelere yer verir. Sonuç olarak, Kalandar Soğuğu yeni-gerçekçi unsurlarla modernist öğeleri buluĢturarak modern bir destan anlatmayı ve gerçekçi bir sinema dili yakalamayı baĢarır.

Haruki Murakami uses hypertextual elements as a narrative strategy and frequently represents storyteller characters whose embedded stories have critical -and coreroles in the frame narrative. This article analyses Murakami's fictional narratives Yesterday and Scheherazade, the hypertexts of The Beatles' "Yesterday" and One Thousand and One Nights, from the perspective of hypertextuality, actional storytelling and narrative therapy. Drawing on narrative theories of Genette and Rimmon-Kenan, it examines how the implied author explores actional function in two hypertextual narratives, making references to the previous texts (hypotexts) and representing the storytellers in search of narrative relief in a far-fetched world of everyday life with seemingly trivial problems. The discussion focuses on two storytellers: the characternarrator as the second self of the implied author and a female storyteller living on the experiential tales of life. It argues that both storytellers exhibit a desire to narrate to transform their experiences into verbal expression and to repair their episodic memory through the act of storytelling. The study shows that the characters' stories and the references and allusions to other texts are essential parts accounting for the character's motivation beneath the storytelling and presents the central theme of the narratives. These stories additionally explore the power of storytelling as to whether storytelling can transform the everyday experience into something special worth telling.

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