Does Multimedia Technology Facilitate Pragmatics Awareness among Teenage Learners? A Case of Secondary-School Students

The main aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement scale that can be used to identify the bilingual individual's attitude towards a mother tongue that is undergoing attrition due to a dominant second language. Scale research was applied to a total of 439 Kurdish-Turkish bilingual participants aged from 17-35 living in Turkey. An exploratory factor analysis and a reliability analysis were performed to determine the validity of the scale. The scale developed according to the results of exploratory factor analysis consists of 12 items in total from three dimensions, behavioral, cognitive and affective. KMO measure adequacy was found to be 0.874 and the strength of the relationship among variables by the Bartlett test was found to be 2047.005 and Chi-square output was statistically significant (p<0.05). The item factor loadings of the scale ranged from 0.845 to 0.613, and item total correlation values ranged from 0.671 to 0.478. In addition, the total Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient of the scale was 0.874; accordingly, the Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficients for the subdimensions of the scale were estimated to be between 0.801 and 0.8769. Moreover, the fit indices of the model were examined and the Chi-square value (x2 = 256.01, N = 439, do = 51, p = 0.00) was significant. The fit index values of the scale were: AGFI=0.86, RMSEA= 0.096, SRMR=0.066, CFI=0.90, IFI=0.95, NFI=0.94, NNFI= 0.94. It was concluded that the scale developed for this study is valid and reliable, theoretically providing a basis for evaluating the attitude of individuals towards their mother tongues.

Section: Kasap Mother Tongue Attitude Scale (Mtas)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Mother Tongue Attitude Scale ( MTAS)

Kasap¹

2021

Language Shift Among Speakers of Kalhuri Kurdish in Iran

Yarahmadi¹

2021

In the multicultural and multiethnic context of Iran, Farsi is the only official and the most prestigious language. This article investigates sociolinguistic factors fostering a radical language shift from Kalhuri Kurdish to Farsi in Kermanshah, the largest Kurdish city in Iran. This shift has raised many social and cultural controversies within the Kurdish community. Data was gathered through a questionnaire focusing on attitudinal, economic and social factors affecting the shift. The participants were one thousand native Kurdish speakers in Kermanshah. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and item percentage. The findings revealed that social, personal and economic factors contributed to the shift, with economic concerns outweighing the other factors. In discussion and conclusion, we deal with the implications of the findings.

Semantic and Modal Analysis of Some Verbs in Kurdish, Turkish and English

BABAYİĞİT

2021

Dil, küresel varlığımızı bir arada tutan bir zamktır. Şiir ve yazılarla ufukta ilk kez ortaya görünen İngilizce; modern dönemdeki lingua franca (ortak dil)"dir. Disiplinler arası boyutuyla modern bir bilim dalı olan dilbilim, sadece modern dilleri değil, aynı zamanda Kürtçe ve Türkçe gibi eski dillere de uygulanmaktadır ve tüm dilleri kapsamaktadır. Bu bağlamda, üç dili karşılaştırmak makuldür. Bu çalışma, dilin başlangıç noktası olarak alınan fiil üzerine odaklanmaktadır. Zaman ve fiil anlamsal yapısı açısından bazı fiiller incelenmiş ve betimlenmiştir. Çalışmanın verileri çeşitli kitap, makale ve dergilerden toplanmıştır. Oluş, durum ve iş-kılış fiillerinin örnekleri; modern anlamdaki zamanın benimsendiğini ve evrensel olduğunu göstermektedir. İngilizce, zamanın anlamını iletmek için yardımcı fiiller kullanır.