This paper presents an investigation into the relationship between individuals" attitudes towards their mother tongue and lexical attrition. The paper is based on data from a study wherein 10 Kurdish-Turkish bilinguals were asked to narrate a well-known story in their mother tongue of Kurdish. These individuals were selected from among 104 participants according to their score on the Mother Tongue Attitude Scale (MTAS), a scale used to determine attitude towards mother tongue.In this study, quantitative and qualitative research methods were used together. The participants were asked to tell a story in Kurdish to assess their use of Turkish words while doing so. Additionally, the participants were also asked to evaluate their Kurdish speaking ability after telling the story.The results of the study showed participants with a low MTAS score resorted to borrowing more Turkish words and were able to access a smaller number of Kurdish words than the participants with higher MTAS scores and they suffered more from lexical attrition than their counterparts. Those with high MTAS scores, with a positive attitude towards their mother tongue, used smaller numbers of words borrowed from Turkish and had access to a richer lexicon with which to narrate the story.

Coping with death is a grueling job to be done however it is not impossible. All cultures have developed ways to cope with death. Interfering with these practices may interfere with the necessary grieving processes. Understanding different cultures' and religions response to death can help counselors recognize the grieving process in patients of other cultures. It is also important to realize that, while each individual grief process is unique, there is a form of grief that is disabling, interfering with function and quality of life. A great majority of the people in Anatolia have remained under the influence of tradition as well as religion. In the foundation of main behavior models which forms our traditional life, ensuring them to possess specialty and formation however there lays numerous customs, beliefs and ethic operations. So that such kind of variations affects the death and the bereavement customs. As in the case of the three important event of the life, a great number of beliefs, customs, tradition, ceremonies, and behaviors have been also grouped around death. Such beliefs, customs, transactions, ceremonies and pattern behaviors which accumulated around the death and surrounded individuals with the death are collected under three groups. Sets of traditions formed as pre-death, during death and after death. So this study was carried out so as to determine the approach of Anatolian traditions to the death and bereavement. This qualitative research was conducted by means of semi-structured interviews in which three questions prepared by the researchers and were asked to four volunteer male participants whose mean age was seventy-five years old. The study concludes that the traditions of Anatolia give importance to sharing and supporting the family of deceased, which overlaps the literature of bereavement process psychology.

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Akademisyenlerin Gözünden Türkiye'de ki İngilizce Eğitimi Süleyman KASAP * Öz: Öğretmenler sadece okullarımızın kalitesi için değil ayrıca toplumların şekillenmesinde hayati bir öneme sahiptir. Günümüz dünyasında ekonomik, sosyal, eğitim ve bilimin Lingua Franca'sı olan İngilizceyi öğrenmek artık kaçınılmaz bir durum haline gelmiştir. Ancak Türkiye'de İngilizce öğretimi istenen düzeylere bir türlü ulaşamamıştır. Bu çalışmada Türkiye'deki 6 farklı üniversitenin eğitim fakültesi İngiliz Dili Eğitimi bölümlerinde görev yapan (5 kadın, 5 erkek)-yaşları 35 ile 65 arasında değişen ve amaçlı örnekleme tekniği ile seçilen-10 akademisyenle nitel yaklaşım çerçevesinde yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formları ile Türkiye'deki İngilizce eğitimi sorunu incelenmiş ve çalışma sonunda "Türkiye'deki

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