http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2150 2026-04-14T15:52:12Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2163 THE RECIPROCAL EFFECTS OF BOTH RESPONSIBILITY AND MOTIVATION IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY COŞKUN, Lokman This study aims to analyze the significance of personal responsibility and its positive benefits and also its relations with motivation in foreign language learning environment. Particularly, responsibility enhances motivation and benefits from values and capabilities, since they are considered as central to what it means to learn in the life. In accordance with it, each individual has freedom how to consider his/her choices, behaviors, and actions in the life as The study on personal responsibilities and motivation were taken into account to demonstrate how these two features of foreign language learning process can help students take control of their own learning in order to become self-regulated learners. In this regard, self-regulated learning/learner (SRL) model based on social cognitive, cyclical, triadic, and multi-level models by Zimmerman (2001, 2002, 2008, 2011 & 2013) shed lights to explain the details of this article in terms of foreign language learning and the benefits of those models were added in the conclusion.The features of personal responsibility, motivation, cognition, and individual differences (capabilities) were presented in details in order to find out their reciprocal relations, which cause positive outcomes in learning process. Instructional approach was used to compare both responsibility & motivation also their reciprocal relations. As limitation, the study does not include any questionnaire and interview, only the first data, secondary data and the researcher’s individual views were used to explain the study. The study reveals that responsibility not only makes the ways for high level motivation also creates a positive atmosphere for both instructors and students in terms of fruitful outcomes. Actually, responsibilities cause the particular person to benefit from his/her available abilities through self-control and self-regulation. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2162 “WE ARE MAKING ONE STORY, YES?” THE POETICS OF INTERCONNECTION IN POSTMODERN LITERATURE IN A GLOBAL AGE WALLRAVEN, Miriam During the last decades, theories of interconnection and linking have been in the centre of many academic discourses: what goes back to the ancient hermetic worldview that regards everything as connected has been taken up in studies on our globalised world, for example as relationality in the form of cosmodernism. Thus, society has been regarded as linked in areas as different as social networks or globalised markets. In this paper, it is shown how such interconnections are created by storytelling. For this purpose, three metafictional novels with a multiplot structure are analysed. In Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Everything is Illuminated (2002), storytelling helps two very different characters to search for their identity and a traumatic family past influenced by the Holocaust. In the novel, three textual levels and several narrators make it visible that the search for identity and the past is only possible by interlinked stories and a process of co-authorship. The intricate structure of Catherynne M. Valente's fantastic novel Palimpsest (2009) thematises the connection between human beings and their stories which even spans different worlds. Metafictional structures – especially the structure of the palimpsest – illustrate how the whole world consists of stories written on other stories. David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas (2004) consists of six narratives set in different times and places which are connected by symbols, intertextual links, or intermedial adaptations. Hence, in the novel it is shown that despite wars, violence, and the struggle for power throughout history, human beings are connected across time and space – by their stories. By analysing these literary devices, a postmodern poetics of interconnection becomes visible that shows how human history is created by transglobal storytelling. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2161 THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE INFLUENCES OF INDONESIAN LANGUAGE IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING ENGLISH TERCI, Mahmut; FITRIA RAMADAN, Yaumil In this article we will investigate how the Indonesian language affects English language learning. Both the negative and positive influences of the Indonesian language as a mother tongue through the linguistic point of view will be our main focus. Many fascinating facts happen with Indonesian native speakers when they try to learn English. English language learners from any background would find it useful about the unique side of Indonesian language which brings the advantages and disadvantages during learning process. The grammatical influences and the impact that it could raise in learning foreign language will take a part in this article. Furthermore, the structure of Indonesian and English languages, and what they have in common, including letters of alphabet, identical words and how they are formed in sentences will be evaluated in another section. Additionally, the historical background between Indonesia and Britain that unintentionally make a significant influence in the language itself will be explained briefly. To sum up, this article mainly deals with the negative and positive influences of Indonesian language while learning English as a foreign language. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.epoka.edu.al/handle/1/2160 THE IMPACT OF “A CITY UPON A HILL” ON SHAPING AMERICAN CULTURE AND VALUES ERBAŞ, İSA; ZHGUNI, SIDORELA The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between Puritanism and American culture. It displays why this two cultures are often correlated with one another and the impact that Puritan culture have had on the other cultures. The importance of studying the Puritan legacy upon America is because it is crucial to understand the culture of a nation, thus to know and to understand the language of that nation. Therefore studying the influence of Puritanism in America makes it more facile to approach the language. This religious group, which was influenced by religious and political upheavals of the Europe, especially England, of the seventeenth century, moves to the New World. They brought new ideas and a new manner of life. Their simple, religious life and their vision of the world would shape the standpoints of the New Continent. Values such as individualism, exceptionalism, the values of the self-s (self-reliance, self-improvement), and their attitudes towards hard work and education serve as the core values of America today. Hence, this study makes an analogy of the same values being represented during seventeenth century Puritans and modern Americans. It describes the reflection of those values on American society and the changes, if there is any, that have these values have undergone through time. It draws the similarities between Protestant and American values. 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z