Name: Post-Pandemic Trends in Language Studies
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Post-Pandemic Trends in Language Studies

Edited By: Dilşah Kalay

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This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores topics from teacher motivation and technology to student speaking anxiety, perfectionism, cultural influences, and linguistic analysis in English Language Teaching.

This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is organized into ten chapters. Chapter I includes teaching beliefs and…

This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is organized into ten chapters. Chapter I includes teaching beliefs and practices regarding pronunciation. Chapter II examines perfectionism and its relation to second language (L2) performance. Chapter III develops a self-reported instrument to determine the existence of gelotophobia in the English Language Teaching (ELT) field. Chapter IV discusses the deconstruction of human and nonhuman distinctions in the post-cyberpunk and posthumanist context. Chapter V analyzes “surely” and “certainly” as two modal adverbs expressing conviction. Chapter VI focuses on Polish and Turkish relative clauses to reject the traditional, homogeneous approach to appositive relative clause (ARC) research. Chapter VII examines teacher motivation after the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter VIII scrutinizes the technological knowledge level of pre-service ELT teachers. Chapter IX describes the cultural orientations of minority groups and the perceived influence of the media. As the final chapter, Chapter X investigates the effect of speaking anxiety on student talking time.

Dilşah Kalay is an assistant professor at Kütahya Dumlupinar University (DPÜ)’s School of Foreign Languages, Turkey. In 2011, she earned her BA in foreign language education at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Between 2012 and 2019, she first worked at İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Turkey, and then at DPÜ as a lecturer. In 2019, she completed her PhD in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Anadolu University, Turkey. Dr Kalay also works as both Departmental Head and Assistant Principal of the School of Foreign Languages at DPÜ. Her research interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, vocabulary acquisition, language processing, teacher education, learner-teacher perceptions, and young learner education.

Ayhan Kahraman, Beliz Şahin, Büsra Ankit, Çağla İçöz, Cemil Gökhan Karacan, Dilşah Kalay, Emir Muhić, Gülşah Meydan, Ibrahim Halil Topal, Magdalena Keskin, Mehmet Tunaz, Murat Hismanoglu, Jelena Šajinović Novaković, Samet Taşçı, Božana Tomić, Zekiye SEİS