The cognitive processes involved in single-word naming of the transparent Turkish orthography were examined in a series of nine naming experiments on adult native readers. In Experiment 1, a significant word frequency effect was observed when matched (i.e. on initial phoneme, le…
This study examined the conceptions of emerging adulthood among European-American, and Turkish groups. The period of emerging adulthood represents a transitional phase of the life course between adolescence and early adulthood. It is viewed as occurring between ages of 17 and 29…
Republican Turkish modernization has been initiated and shaped by a reforming elite comprised of the military, bureaucracy and the intellectuals and aimed at a top-down, controlled and hegemonic transformation of state and society through a series of sweeping reforms, which had …
The political representation of immigrant associations is central for immigrants to become political actors in Germany. I offer a comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations to point to the diverse approaches in terms of political representation, political resist…
This study identified social and cultural factors that influence smoking behavior of rural/urban youth, age 15-17, who attend high school in Dursunbey, a small town in Turkey's Aegean region. The methods consisted of a cross-sectional, school-based survey of all 10th graders (N …
The main aim of this study was to examine the nature of literary discussions in an advanced level English literature class in a Turkish EFL (English as a Foreign Language) setting. The focus of the study was the discursive features of a foreign language literature course offered…
The concept of "dual diploma program" is one of the current trends in international education, and the dual diploma partnership between the State University of New York System and Turkish universities is the pioneer of this concept. The purpose of this study was to determine the…
There is a debate on the exact relationship between capitalist development and democracy. Some maintain that there is a theoretical and empirical affinity between the two, while others have demonstrated that authoritarian regimes have been as able to accommodate capitalist devel…
The outbreak of ethnic wars in the aftermath of the Cold War revived the interest in the study of identity, ethnicity and culture. These ethnic wars gave scholars ample case studies, where they could investigate the ways in which these three factors interact and eventually cause…
This study grew out of a desire to understand the ways that intercultural experiences affect the lives of women. The method and design of the study is heuristic. Interviews were conducted with 13 women, seven Turkish women and six Euro-American women between the ages of 23 and 5…
This study examines how Turkish teachers respond to the design of an instructional computing training program, based on data from research conducted in the United States, as well as how Turkish students respond to computer integrated lessons created by specially trained teachers…
This dissertation addresses the impact of Kemalist state identity, which propagates a specific form of nationalism on Turkish foreign policy. The conditions for Turkey's involvement in the lives of Turks living outside Turkey are specified in the Turkish foreign policy model tha…
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between Turkish female science teachers' gender-related beliefs and those teachers' corresponding interaction with their male and female students. The data was collected from five different sources: Surveys, interviews, ob…
A few studies have investigated the transfer of culturally specific rhetorical patterns from L1 to L2 writing by examining the L1 and L2 texts of the same individuals. Their findings suggest that the L1 and L2 essays of the subjects are very similar, thus providing evidence for …
'Turkish Republican citizenship and rights to the city' explores the significance of the city in the constitutions, contestations, and transformations of Turkish citizenship. While it focuses on the republican era after 1923, it also takes into account the nineteenth century ref…
The purpose of this study was to examine psychological and socio-cultural adaptation of Turkish individuals living in the U.S. In the first part of the study, Searle and Ward's (1994) psychological and socio-cultural adaptation model and Berry's (1997) acculturation model were t…
Turkey planned to transform its repressed financial structure into a market-based system by implementing the structural adjustment and liberalization program starting at the beginning of 1980. Prior to 1980 structural adjustment and liberalization program, direct control methods…
The purpose of this study was to investigate and describe Turkish teachers' self reported perceptions regarding textbook adaptation strategies. Another purpose of this study was to determine the match between the textbook and the students' reading levels. In order to determine t…