http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2180 2026-04-14T15:52:07Z 2026-04-14T15:52:07Z BAĞCI, Fatih Ufuk http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2189 2021-07-23T22:52:37Z 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE FAMILY TO IMPROVE THE FAITH FEELINGS AND KNOWLEDGE. (ALBANIA-AN EXAMPLE OF TIRANA) BAĞCI, Fatih Ufuk Family is the first institution to be part of the socialization of the child. This process which starts since the child’s birth, will last until his last breath. That’s why we can say that family is the basic and the most important factor in children’s education. A child’s education is a multiple-ways responsibility. As we try to resolve physical needs, spiritual needs are one of the most sensitive things of this responsibility. Surely we give a big importance to fulfill the needs of wearing, eating, drinking, and such physical needs, but it is important as well to get him to know community values, to help him with the teen age, as well as to be introduced to religious knowledge and religious way of living. In our study, we have taken in consideration how the families who live in Tirana and whose children go to religious schools, live religion within their families. In our research we have collected data especially from families who have religious knowledge and send their children to religious school being conscious about it and about the way how they live and understand this way of life. Throughout our research, in order to get information about how religion is lived within families, we have used the “Scale of religious activities within families” method. The scale was applied on the high school “Madrasa Haxhi Mahmud Dashi, Tirana, which is a religious institution. In the end of this study we came in the conclusion that after the high school students took this survey, the average was 27 for the frequency of the religious activities, and 28 for the importance of the religious activities.

2017-04-01T00:00:00Z LIKAJ SHAQIRI, Matilda http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2188 2021-07-23T22:44:05Z 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z

HERMENEUTICS AS THE INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION IN CULTURAL CONTEX: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF ALBANIAN CULTURE LIKAJ SHAQIRI, Matilda Sociological and philosophical approaches often have been decisive in the study of cultural aspects of religions, imparting to the social disciplines a theoretical basis and the direction in which research should proceed. One of most important field of these approaches is the interpretation of religion and religious texts, which in terms of modern philosophy is entitled as hermeneutics. Hermeneutics has been a root of sociological and philosophical theory of modern interpretation, the theory of achieving an understanding of cultural, holly texts and utterances. As a theory of interpretation, the hermeneutic tradition stretches all the way back to ancient Greek philosophy till nowadays as a sociological interpretation of religion in context of culture. The interpretation and understanding of our life can be related with hermeneutic of holly texts, religion, social and cultural structure of a society. This article is going to focus on and discuss about the hermeneutic as the philosophy of interpretation, hermeneutic and religion, and the interpretation of religion in the cultural context such as Albanian culture.

2017-04-01T00:00:00Z PAPADOPOULOS, Isaak GRIVA, Eleni http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2187 2021-07-23T22:37:31Z 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z

PROMOTING CRITICAL LITERACY IN THE EFL CONTEXT: IMPLEMENTING A PROJECT TO YOUNG LEARNERS PAPADOPOULOS, Isaak; GRIVA, Eleni In response to the continually growing demands of this era, the society needs active members who are able to cooperate with each other and show a critical stance in what they read, see, touch, smell or come across. Thus, modern language education should aim at developing critical readers and writers. As a result, the critical literacy programs in which students are turned into active participants of their learning process and accept something after they have already remarked it, are more than necessary in the education of the 21st century.This paper outlines the rational for and the purpose of designing and implementing a thematic pilot project aiming at developing students’ critical literacy in an EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom. This pilot project was implemented to 20 Greek-speaking students of the 5th primary school class (aged 11 years old) who had been learning English for 4 four years. It was initiated with the purpose to provide insights into developing students’ critical literacy skills as well as their four language skills in the foreign language. The project was carried out in 25 two hour sessions focused on the thematic area of the “Sports”. This topic was selected because of the nature of the sports and their popularity among the teenagers. Moreover, sports are a ‘controversial’ subject/concept that students can express different opinions and examine it from different perspectives. Special emphasis was placed on the creation of an environment promoting critical thinking and critical stance. Moreover, an attempt was made for a pleasant and creative foreign language learning environment to be developed, where students actually could enhance personal and interpersonal skills.In order to estimate the feasibility of this project, we used three basic tools a) a pre- and a post- test about the language assessment, b) journals kept by the teacher/researcher throughout the intervention and c) structured interviews conducted by the researcher with students individually to record the students’ different perspectives based on a text. The findings showed a significant improvement of the students’ language skills in EFL, as well as their critical thinking and ability to examine a text from different perspectives.

2017-04-01T00:00:00Z OLAYINKA BAMIGBOLA, Esther TEMITOPE OLUMODI, John http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2186 2021-07-23T22:34:20Z 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z

PRAGMATIC ACTS IN PRE-ELECTION DEBATES: 2012 GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA OLAYINKA BAMIGBOLA, Esther; TEMITOPE OLUMODI, John Language is an indispensable tool in the human society for it engenders communication, understanding and interaction. In a democratic setting, it propels people to vote, debate or revolt; it is a major determinant of the fate of political office seekers during elections especially in the first world countries. Thus, politicians must strive to use language appropriately to package their programmes in order to garner more votes during elections. This study aims at examining the effects the utterances of political candidates could have on their audience. The 2012 governorship pre-election debate in Ondo State of Nigeria was used as a case study. The contest was organised by the Nigerian Election Debate Group – a conglomeration of stakeholders in the election. Six political parties participated in the debate but the responses of candidates of the three most prominent parties were considered in this study. The utterances of the participants were transcribed from the video recording of the debate which was sourced from YouTube on the internet and the summary of the utterances is presented in tabular form. The analysis is based on the speech acts theories of J. L. Austin and John Searle. The utterances were classified into direct and indirect illocutionary acts identified by John Searle. The major findings of the study indicate that political aspirants in their speeches make use of more commissives than other illocutionary acts, and use requesting rather than ordering, an illocutionary act associated with the military. An incumbent leader aspiring to be re-elected makes use of directive illocutionary acts in order to intimate the masses with his past accomplishments, and thereby imploring them to re-vote him into power so that his “good works” may continue. The implications of these findings are that effective language use is strategic to winning elections as it is required to explain political plans and programs; political campaign must be issue-based with convincing evidences that the nitty-gritty of governance is well understood; an incumbent seeking re-election must ensure that he performs creditably in order to make an easy triumph in future contests. In conclusion, the ability of an aspiring political leader to make use of appropriate illocutionary acts can earn him the support of the electorates.

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