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    Deconstructing learner engagement: An expanded construct model for higher education learners
    (2023) Seker, Meral
    Despite the unanimous agreement regarding the positive outcomes of learner engagement, theorists and researchers draw attention to the disparate conceptualizations and structural models of “engagement” construct. The present study, in this respect, attempts to contribute to the development of a theoretical framework by suggesting a multidimensional overarching model for assessing higher education learner engagement. Following the descriptive research design, the study reports the initial model construction and validation results. The findings show significant differences from the earlier conceptualizations indicating a five-dimension model: academic-functional, cognitive, meta-cognitive, collaborative-social, and collaborative- academic engagement. While metacognitive engagement indicators form a distinct but integral dimension in the construct, the social dimension displays an idiosyncratic structure, implying that the multidimensional nature of the engagement construct has a situated nature. Pedagogical implications are discussed based on the engagement model validated.
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    Deconstructing learner engagement: An expanded construct model for higher education learners
    (Izzet Kara, 2023) Seker, Meral
    Despite the unanimous agreement regarding the positive outcomes of learner engagement, theorists and researchers draw attention to the disparate conceptualizations and structural models of engagement construct. The present study, in this respect, attempts to contribute to the development of a theoretical framework by suggesting a multidimensional overarching model for assessing higher education learner engagement. Following the descriptive research design, the study reports the initial model construction and validation results. The findings show significant differences from the earlier conceptualizations indicating a five-dimension model: academic-functional, cognitive, meta-cognitive, collaborative-social, and collaborative- academic engagement. While metacognitive engagement indicators form a distinct but integral dimension in the construct, the social dimension displays an idiosyncratic structure, implying that the multidimensional nature of the engagement construct has a situated nature. Pedagogical implications are discussed based on the engagement model validated.
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    Investigating Syntactic and Morphological Differences in the Written Productions of Turkish Learners Based on the Learning Context
    (2024) Sönmez, Lebriz; Seker, Meral
    Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the potential impact of the learning context on learners’ written production. Comparing the syntactic and morphological errors, the study tries to find out whether there are differences between written language productions of learners learning Turkish in Turkey and the ones outside the target community. Design/Methodology/Approach: Following descriptive research method, the study adopted qualitative design through systematic content analysis to analyse the data gathered from 78 learners of Turkish at A2 proficiency level, in Turkey (N=42) and outside of Turkey (N=36). The statistical analyses were then carried out to identify the ratios and the categorical distributions of errors determined through error analysis. Findings: The results reveal that learning a language in the target context impacts writing performances significantly at syntactic and morphological level. Based on the findings, instructional implications are provided to enhance effective language input. Highlights: Writing, an important and functional skill in multiple domains, is one of the most challenging skills to master and requires receive sufficient and meaningful authentic language input. As Turkish possesses distinct characteristics compared to Germanic or Semitic Languages, learners of Turkish have additional challenges at language production level. Learners of Turkish display significant differences in the types of syntactic and morphological errors in their writing depending on their learning contexts. The learning context has impacts on the writing productions of learners. The results suggest that educators and program developers in the field of Turkish Language teaching need to consider the role of the context in learning a foreign language while incorporating the special linguistic characteristics of Turkish in designing their teaching programs, materials and lessons.
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    Online Learning Self-Efficacy: Investigation of the Factors Affecting Student Learning
    (2023) Seker, Meral; Inan-Karagül, Banu
    The process of pandemic brought about important challenges to all the people in the world and educational institutions have also been affected directly by this unexpected situation. It has also revealed the significance of online education and the use of technological tools for educational purposes. In this context, this study aims to investigate the learners’ online learning self-efficacy within the scope of demographic variables and it also attempted to identify the perceptions of students related to tha factors that influenced their online learning self-efficacy. According to the quantitative findings, the participants’ self-reported online self-efficacy levels were found to be quite high. Even though no statistically significant relationship was found between learners’ online self-efficacy and gender, age and school level were found to be statistically significant variables.When the qualitative findings were taken into account, itt was found out during interviews that, learners mentioned some negative and positive factors affecting their online learning self-efficacy. Support they obtained through their course instructors and resources presented to them were revealed as enabling factors whereas technical issues and motivation problems were listed as disabling factors.