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An Open Secret? - The Dissemination and Reception of News about Auschwitz in Hungary in 1944

Author(s): Gergely Kunt / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

In this paper, I analyse diaries from 1944 to explore the extent to which ordinary Hungarian civilians were informed of the genocide of the Jewish population. The diaries indicate that information was sparse among the Hungarian population, and mainly obtained, directly or indirectly, from BBC radio broadcasts. The reactions of individual Christian and Jewish diarists varied according to the amount of credit they gave to the broadcasts or the rumours circulating within their social circles. However, both Jews and Christians tried not to give credit to the rumours as the idea of gas chambers and mass gassings was simply inconceivable to the majority of the examined diarists. Even Jewish diarists who had received news of the ongoing genocide and feared for their lives thought it more likely that they would be executed by volley fire. For them, this method of mass murder posed a more realistic danger.

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The Moral Witness - The Eichmann Trial and Its Aftermath

Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This lecture addresses how “bearing witness to genocide” became a central trope of contemporary Western moral culture. The 1960/61 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem put victims of genocide centre-stage and affirmed the pre-eminence of the Jewish Holocaust survivor in European and especially American politics and culture. The lecture revisits the Eichmann trial to understand its contribution not simply to bringing the world’s attention to the Jewish dimension of the Holocaust, but also to understanding how the trial shaped the pervasive figure of the Jewish “witness” who marked the Holocaust as a caesura in human history. The Holocaust survivor remained the iconic witness even when, after the 1990s, the witness to genocide became a more generic symbol of suffering humanity in the shadow of all state-sponsored mass violence against persons and cultures. The lecture suggests that only by placing the witness to genocide in a longer historical trajectory can we understand why the Holocaust remains iconic in spite of the occurrence of many other genocides since.

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Das Buch Goldmann - Ingeborg Bachmanns Darstellung des postnazistischen Wien

Author(s): Marie-Luise Wandruszka / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

Ingeborg Bachmann applied the title Das Buch Goldmann to a writing project that preoccupied her from 1963/1964 until after the publication of her novel Malina in 1971. Yet her broad audience was not able to read and acknowledge this book as an independent work. Only with its publication in the Salzburg edition of Bachmann‘s complete works does it reveal her totally unusual ability to grasp politico-economic relationships (the immediate post-war period and the resulting Cold War in Vienna or the market mechanisms of the Frankfurt Book Fair …) and their tragic as well as comical repercussions for men and women – Jewish remigrants, ex-Nazis, untalented actresses, and writers without character. This novel‘s credibility is due to its highly unusual, precise, and unemotional language.

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A Personal Research Entanglement - The 'Intimate' Perpetrator

Author(s): Franziska A. Karpinski / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This essay deals with personal emotional entanglements that one encounters when researching letters written by perpetrators of the Holocaust.

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Claude Lanzmanns Shoah und meine Generation in Alemania

Author(s): Stefan Gandler / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2019

The movie Shoah from the intellectual, filmmaker, editor of «Les Temps Modernes» and former Résistance-fighter Claude Lanzmann, who recently passed away, presented for important parts of my generation in Germany a radical turning point. For the first time we had been able to conceive that the destruction of the European Jews took place almost in immediate geographic and historical neighborhood. In one shot it got clear to us –who understood ourselves as student activists with a critical posture towards capitalism and domination– that in reality we hadn't known nothing about the Shoah.

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The Rabbinic Responsa Literature as a Source for Learning about the Religious Life during the Holocaust - Individual and Community Life

Author(s): Moshe Tarshansky / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The Rabbinic Responsa literature has been developing over many centuries. This literature doesn't record theoretical systematic topics chosen by the rabbis, but rather answers to questions posed to rabbis, by persons, dealing with various real-life situations they are facing. As such, it reflects the historical conditions of life at the given time and place, and the issues the people were concerned with. Therefore this literature can be utilized as a historical source, although it was not meant to be so, and therefore it is often lacking basic historical details, such as names of those involved and dates. The Holocaust period too, produced such literature, unique due to the extreme conditions. Even in the most difficult times in the ghettos and in the concentration camps, Jews sought spiritual religious guidance and turned to Rabbis, who were expected to give immediate rulings on grievous issues dealing with life and death, with no precedent, and with no option of looking up sources in books or consulting with other rabbis. Sometimes questions and answers were recorded during the difficult times, but in most cases they were noted down by survivors after liberation. Questions were asked after the end of the war as well, dealing with consequences of the Holocaust, and also they reflect those times.

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Recipes for Survival - Survival strategies in Concentration Camps

Author(s): Szilvia Czingel,Virág Németh,András Borgula / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

The recipes were written in the women's hut of the concentration camp in Lichtenworth, by five prisoners deported from Budapest, on the verge of death, suffering from typhus, fleas and lice, starving, thin as skeletons. The recipes were discovered 62 years later by accident. The recipe book was saved for posterity by the only survivor.

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The Impact of Political Socialization in Kosovo Political Culture

Author(s): Behar Haziri / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This paper analyses agents of political socialization and their impact on Kosovo's political culture. The importance of political socialization in defining Kosovo's political culture is considerable, because with a special attention to its factors such as: family, education, religious institutions, peer groups, social classes, interest groups, political parties and the media, it may represent the attitudes, developments and changes that are involved in shaping political culture. To analyse the problems of political culture and the functioning of the Kosovo political system, the analysis is based on empirical research realized in February 2016, extending across the territory with a representative sample of (n=1007) respondents, including majority Albanians, and minorities Serb, Turkish, Bosnian, Roma and Ashkali. We compare the results with the empirical analysis of the pattern of political culture of Almond, Powell, Dalton and Strom (2008), always referring to the methodological criteria. The applied methods in the development of the study are the comparison method and the deductive method.

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Issues on Learner Autonomy: Teachers’ Effort and Responsibility towards it

Author(s): Flora Maliqi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This paper aims to discuss issues on learner autonomy and teachers’ effort and responsibility in promoting autonomous learning in English language classrooms. The concept of learner autonomy is a focus of many researchers in different countries. Many researchers and academics consider this phenomenon as a central concern in language learning. In cultivating learner autonomy there is a two-way street; the teacher whose role is highly important in fostering and encouraging learners to learn in an autonomous way and the learner who is responsible for his/her own learning after getting the required need and help from the teacher. However, teachers around the world still struggle with the ways to foster autonomous learning in the language classroom or outside it. Therefore, this study was conducted in three high schools in Gjilan, where 30 teachers were interviewed in order to find out if they promote autonomous learning, and if so, how much effort and responsibility they show with their learners, and their opinions on the necessity in promoting Learner Autonomy (LA) in English classrooms. As a result, study findings show that the interviewed teachers are aware of the importance, but regarding the implementation of learner autonomy however, they still struggle on implementing it into practice in their classrooms stating reasons which hinder this important issue in English language teaching.

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Nicolaus Cusanus Unbound: An Investigation into Parallels between his Liberal Philosophy and Object-Oriented Ontology

Author(s): Naruhiko Mikado / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2019

This paper intends to reexamine the idiosyncratic thoughts of Nicholaus Cusanus (Nicholas of Cusa), a fifteenth-century German theologian-cum-philosopher who has generally been considered to be just a transitional figure to the succeeding, modern thinkers. The chief argument of this essay is that his conception of God as both immanent and transcendent has a number of interesting parallels with contemporary, de-anthropocentric philosophies, especially with Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology (OOO), and in fact can be regarded as a prescient harbinger to OOO in that Nicholas evidently urges one to assume a more liberal worldview while simultaneously equipping his own theory with a logic intelligible to others. In the closing section, the author of this paper poses a few proposals drawn from the investigation both to the discipline of philosophy and to the general public.

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Türkçede Dilbilgisel Birliktelik Görünümlerinin Betimlenmesi: “gibi” İlgeci Üzerine Derlem Temelli Bir Uygulama

Author(s): Ayşe Eda Gündoğdu / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

A preposition, one of the function words in a language, is a structure that cannot be used alone but can be used without any suffixes/affixes or along with some bound morphemes. The main purpose of this study is to describe the systematical use / co-occurance aspects and semantic characteristics of the aforementioned preposition in terms of the principles and methods of corpus linguistics. This study has benefitted from the database of the demo version of TNC (Turkish National Corpus). Thematic analysis method has been used in order to interpret the findings of the study. These findings were put forth with the percentage and frequency analysis through Excel and SPSS 16.0 programs. In this study, the conditions required to build a phrase structure from the aforementioned preposition and what kind of semantic extensions it provides to the system have been discussed. In conclusion, it has been observed that the aforementioned preposition can be collocated with nouns, verbs, gerunds and similar prepositions and function as different extensions such as simile, imminence and quickness.

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Dil Öğrenme Stratejilerine Göre İngilizce Öz Yeterlik İnancı ve İngilizce Akademik Başarı

Author(s): Ercan Gözüm,Alper Başbay / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

The purpose of the study is to investigate language learning strategy, self-efficacy in English with English proficiency of high school students. The research was carried out in the 2017-2018 academic year on 884 students studying in 5 different high schools in İzmir Buca district. Inventory of Strategies for Language Learning and English Self-efficacy Scale were used as data collection tools in the study. English exams grade averages were taken as English proficiency scores at the end of the term. Normality test was done in the first step in order to decide what tests should be used in the analysis of participants data. Given the number of participants in the survey, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was considered appropriate. MANOVA was conducted to determine whether the English academic achievement grade average and English self-efficacy levels differed significantly according to the language learning strategies high, medium, low. As a result of the study, It is seen that There is significant difference high school students self-efficacy in English and English proficiency according to language learning strategy.

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Türkçe Dersi 8. Sınıf Kitabındaki Metinlerin Okunabilirliği

Author(s): Yasemin Baki / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

In this study, it was aimed to determine the word and sentence lengths of the texts of the 8th grade Turkish textbooks and to determine the readability levels of these texts and to examine the appropriateness of the texts to the class level. In this research carried out by the qualitative research methodology, the document review and its design were used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analysis was used. As a result of this analysis, sentences and word lengths of the texts, frequency and percentage values of the obtained findings about the readability levels were shown in tables and graphs. In the determination of the words, sentence lengths and readability of the texts, Ateşman’s (1997) readability formula adapted to Turkish from Flesch and the readability formula developed by Çetinkaya (2010) were used. 22 texts in the 8th grade Turkish textbook prepared by MEB (Ministry of National Education) Publications were analyzed in the research and the free reading texts included the research, but the poems excluded from the scope of the research. As a result of the study, it has been found that the texts are generally more appropriate to the class level, and that the narrative texts are simpler and more readable than the informative texts.

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Hizmet Öncesi Türkçe Öğretmenlerinin Öğretmeye Yönelik Endişeleri ve Özyeterlik İnançları

Author(s): Tuba Yurtseven,Derya Yaylı / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 1/2019

The aim of this study is to determine the concerns of pre-service Turkish teachers who continue their education in the Turkish education program and their self-efficacy beliefs in terms of the sub-problems in terms of gender and class level variables and to investigate the relationship between these two structures. The study group consisted of 200 Turkish teacher candidates studying in the 3rd and 4th grades of the Turkish Education Program of the Faculty of Education of Pamukkale University. Relational screening model, which is a quantitative research method, was used in the study. Pearson correlation analysis was applied first to determine the pre-service Turkish teachers' concerns about teaching and their self-efficacy beliefs. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis technique was chosen and applied from the Multiple linear regression analysis technique. When the results of t-test for the significance of regression coefficients were determined, only management was found to be an important predictor of personal anxiety. Strategy and participation were not a significant predictor of personal concern.

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Türkçeyi Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğrenen Öğrenciler Tarafından Üretilen İkna Metinlerinde Üstsöylem Belirleyicilerinin Kullanımı

Author(s): Elçin Esmer / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

The study aims to analyze the usage of metadiscourse markers in the persuasive texts produced by the students learning Turkish as a foreign language. The study used a descriptive survey model. Quantitative and qualitative methods were applied. The data for the study involves 30 persuasive written texts produced by the foreign students who are attending the Mersin University Turkish Application and Research Center. Drawing on Hyland (2005)’s metadiscourse classification the data were analyzed. Results reveal that there are some problems with the use of some metadiscourse markers in the texts. Therefore students can not produce coherent and cohesive persuasive texts.

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Çeviri Eğitiminde Kalite

Author(s): Halil İbrahim Balkul,Hüseyin Ersoy / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

There are a lot of translation studies departments operating in different foreign languages in Turkey. It still remains one of the main debates how to apply teaching practices in these departments. Addressing the issue in a more professional and systematic way can shed light on the completed and forthcoming studies in the field. Today, a growing number of corporations and academic units regard quality concept as one of the most significant criteria in their work flow. Likewise, translator education field must be regarded as an important field in which quality management needs to be assured when we take political, economic, cultural and technological aspects of translator education into consideration. In the present study, the factors affecting quality in translator education are initially identified and then their structures and characteristic features are described. After that, the positive and negative sides of these factors are detected and the features which need to be improved are questioned. In this way, this research aims to form a basis for the further studies in translator education.

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Bir İngilizce Ders Kitabının (English File) Çokkültürlülük Açısından İncelenmesi

Author(s): Kadriye Dimici,Burçin Yıldız,Alper Başbay / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

In this study, with the expectation of positive effect that can result from the classroom environment designed considering the characteristics of the students, it is thought to be significant to find out whether different cultural specifications are represented in the coursebooks and to identify what perspectives are used if they are represented. In this regard, the aim of this study is to investigate the coursebooks used in English Preparatory Schools and the opinions of the instructors about the coursebooks in terms of multiculturalism. Case study design, through which it is aimed to enlighten the current case, is implemented to investigate the case related to the concept of multiculturalism. The unit of analysis of the study is the dimensions of multicultural education and the case is English File coursebooks used in the preparatory classes and the opinions of the instructors using these coursebooks. In this study, document analysis and interview which are the techniques of qualitative data collection are utilized. As a result of document analysis, it is deduced that gender and ethnicity/race dimensions are often represented in the visual, audial and written materials of the coursebooks. However, the dimensions such as disability, political orientation and social class are rarely observed and the dimension of sexual orientation is never represented in the coursebooks. The interviews with the instructors mostly confirm the findings of the document analysis.

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Exploring the Motivational Strategies in Second Language Teaching

Author(s): Reynald Cacho,Lilibeth Frondoso / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Initiating and sustaining motivation in a collective and innovative style has been a challenge for English language teachers anywhere in the globe. This paper explored the common motivational strategies employed by English language teachers in the classrooms as reported by both teachers and their students from the peripheral district multiple secondary zones in certain school divisions in the Philippines. Anchored on Sugita and Takeuchi’s (2010) findings and supporting literature, teachers’ motivational strategies were surveyed from 256 10th grade student and thirty (30) English teachers. Results confirm teachers and students’ observed engagement with the motivational strategies in the L2 classrooms. Although there were some variations, similarities and connections on the way students and teachers perceived the L2 motivational strategies in the classrooms, the use of a variety of motivational strategies with the focus on promoting pleasant and supportive environment, holistic assessment, differentiated tasks, and humor, remains to be valuable and critical enablers in sustaining successes in the second language classrooms. Implications for language teachers and future study considerations are then shared.

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5. ve 6. Sınıf Türkçe Ders Kitaplarında Yer Alan Yabancı Kökenli Sözcüklerin İncelenmesi

Author(s): Z. Canan Karababa,Kevser Yıldız / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 3/2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the loanwords found in teaching textbooks used as a primary source in Turkish mother tongue teaching. In general this study, in its introduction, considers the type and structure of loanwords, and the importance of vocabulary teaching in language acquısiton and its relation with mental development. This study, which is a descriptive research based on the scanning model, considers the quantum, quality and structure of loanwords found in 5th and 6th grade Turkish textbooks. The study is limited to examining loanwords which also have a Turkish equivalent. The study found that the ratio of loanwords having a Turkish equivalent to all loanwords scanned was 9.8% in 5th Grade and 5.3 % in 6th Grade textbooks. When vocabulary teaching techniques were considered, the ratios were found to be 17% at 5th Grade and 23% at 6th Grade. The loanwords studied were found to be mostly of Arabic and French origin. Further studies in this area should focus on the attention required when chosing vocabulary for Turkish language textbooks.

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Greta Gorsuch and Gale T. Griffee, Second language testing for student evaluation and classroom research

Author(s): Ferit Kılıçkaya / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

Review of: Greta Gorsuch and Gale T. Griffee, Second language testing for student evaluation and classroom research, Information Age Publishing, Inc (IAP) 2018, xix, 371

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