Hasan Selcuk

University of Latvia | LU · Department of Education sciences

Web-based collaborative writing (CW) has been widely used in the field of English as a foreign language (EFL) during the last decade. Previous studies have mainly focused on how online platforms have facilitated the CW process for EFL learners, how web-based CW has shown progress in EFL learners’ writing development, and how EFL learners in groups...

In this article we report on a study investigating the perceptions from Turkish High School English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students of using the social media platform Facebook group to undertake a collaborative writing task. Opportunities for these students to advance their writing skills are often limited in classrooms because of curriculum r...

This study is about an investigation of Turkish high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ use of online dictionaries during asynchronous web-based collaborative writing (CW) activity. 26 groups of three EFL learners (N = 78, 16 years) were involved in a-two-hour CW task in English outside the classroom setting in a Facebook group. d...

This study is about an investigation of Turkish high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ self-reported accounts of the use of Google Translate (GT) as an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool in a web-based collaborative writing (CW) activity. Two groups of three EFL learners (16 years) were involved in a CW task in E...

Over the last decade, online English as a foreign language learning courses have become increasingly popular since teachers and practitioners have realised the benefits of synchronous, videoconferencing-based learning activities for their learners. Not all teachers (especially pre-service teachers) are, however, sufficiently well-versed in implemen...

Even though there is a trend to integrate programming through Python into education in lower secondary schools, Python is usually assumed to be more appropriate for older students. Besides, few teaching guidelines or materials are offered to teachers on programming through Python at lower secondary schools. Therefore, this study in an ordinary publ...

In recent years, authentic foreign language teaching and learning opportunities offered through videoconferencing (VC) to promote the use of the four macro L2 skills have become a pressing need for EFL teachers. This urgent need prompted the researchers to prepare EFL teachers to use VC tools effectively. To date, few attempts have been made to tra...

This paper describes an investigation of primary education student teachers’ perceptions of computational thinking (CT) who participated in a course ‘Digital Technologies in Primary Education’, and explores what these students consider difficult when developing primary school pupils’ CT. In the academic year 2021/22, a revised curriculum will be in...

The rapid spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak compelled many university administrators worldwide to take immediate measures to prevent spreading the disease on their campuses. One key measure was to switch from the face-to-face teaching mode to emergency remote teaching through online learning. Even though the swift and unplanned shift to m...

The increasing interest in English as a foreign language (EFL) across the globe has necessitated learning opportunities that engage and sustain students’ motivation to learn English. This paper aims to provide an analysis of trends in EFL motivation between 2016 and 2020. While examining 90 studies published during this time frame, we have focused...

The pressing need for training pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers to teach English through synchronous videoconferencing (VC) courses is heightening due to the authentic foreign language learning opportunities offered by the VC medium concerning the practice of all four L2 skills. This need should be emphasised further by the...

In the Czech Republic, a radical change in the school curriculum is planned. Through a new, compulsory subject of “Informatics and ICT”, the aim is to develop digital literacy across all school subjects, and computational thinking. Computational thinking will be implemented in the curriculum of pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary school...

The chapter presents a case study aimed to identify changes in Czech elementary school pupils’ algorithmic thinking through programming in Scratch. The study was carried out in 2017/18 with 48 pupils in Grade 5 and 6 at an elementary school in Prague with Informatics as a compulsory subject. To identify the impact of Scratch’s activities on pupils’...

Self-efficacy is an important concept that may be used to understand students’ confidence and beliefs about their competencies to perform tasks. In the field of ICT, more attention is currently being paid to this concept. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between students’ ICT self-efficacy (ICT SE) and their ICT activities. Our sample co...

This paper presents pilot study findings of a research project about the application of anchoring vignettes in the analysis of Czech upper secondary school students’ self-assessment of ICT skills. The pilot study was conducted in December 2017 with 166 respondents from four different types of upper secondary schools. Anchoring vignettes, which are...

Today, most people use technology not only during their formal education, in their professions or jobs but also in pastime activities in which they are motivated to produce a digital artifact (e.g., music, art, movies, apps for mobiles) or to solve problems related to their interests or hobbies. These pastime activities have a very strong creative...

The literature focused on language learning show that self-assessment for non-native learners is much more difficult than the native speakers. According to Blanche (1988), self-assessment accuracy is a condition of learners’ autonomy. In this respect, learners need to know what their abilities are, how much progress they are making and what they c...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic is currently preparing an update of curriculum documents for primary, lower and upper secondary school education in which two major changes to be made: (1) A concept of digital literacy will be incorporated into all school subject across the curriculum in accordance with DigComp 2.0 d...

This paper is about a qualitative investigation into student perceptions of peer learning during a collaborative short story writing activity among Turkish high school EFL learners. Two groups of three students, 16-year-old EFL learners at A2 level English proficiency (CEFR), undertook an online collaborative English short story writing exercise ov...

This thesis is about the perceptions of Turkish EFL high school students on peer collaboration. It is contextualised within a study about how to encourage EFL learners in a Turkish public high school to improve their writing skills in English with peers in an online short story writing exercise. Focusing on two central aspects, I first examined EFL...

This paper is about an investigation of student perceptions of peer affective factors during a Facebook-based collaborative writing activity among Turkish high school EFL learners. Two groups of three students, 16-year-old EFL learners at A2 level English proficiency (CEFR), undertook an online collaborative English short story writing exercise ove...