258 10 3494 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 972 Title A name given to the resource Interactive Whiteboards: Interacting or Self-Acting? Author Author Toscu, Saliha Abstract A summary of the resource. This paper reports on a study to be conducted to explore to what extent the use of the Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) affects classroom interaction in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. The participants will be Turkish preparatory class students in a private university in Turkey. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 992 Title A name given to the resource Language Acquisition as a Cultural Fact and a Translation Process: Is a New Perspective Possible In the Context of Interdisciplinarity Author Author Turhan, Serdar Abstract A summary of the resource. Second language acquisition or foreign language learning is usually associated with various elements including intelligence, motivation, learner beliefs, learning strategies, and some other issues related to teachers or educational associates. These elements have been proven to be essential in second or foreign language acquisition. However; foreign language acquisition is not solely the process which includes learning of grammar, words, or syntax of a specific language. Second language acquisition is -to some extent- sure to be associated with cultural acquisition of a target language. When the culture of a specific language is the subject of interest, it is probable to assume second language acquisition as a cultural translation process. In this paper, it will be argued that theories of Translation Studies may put forward some fruitful ideas related to second language acquisition in the context of interdisciplinarity. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 964 Title A name given to the resource Issues of Learning the Romanian Language as a Foreign Language among Serbian Students Author Author Ursulesku-Milicic, Rodika Spariosu, Laura Janjic, Ivana Abstract A summary of the resource. The aim of this paper is to present the main issues of learning the Romanian language as a foreign language among Serbian students of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. It is the intention of the authors to detect and discuss the common errors made by students taking the final test. The testing has been done on a sample of thirty students and the target group were A1, A2, B1, B2 level students. The test consisted of reading comprehension, writing and use of language. The language courses have been held twice a week and last ninety minutes each. Based on research results, it could be said that students create their own mental grammar that suffers changes during the whole language learning process. The common errors that occurred on A1 and A2 level are related to writing of the Romanian specific vowels ă, î, â and use of article and preposition; on B1 and B2 level errors are related to use of the enclitic forms of personal pronoun, use of present tense and order of words in sentence. Having in mind the fact that error making could be a strategy in language learning process, the authors believe that these results could be a reliable indicator of the Romanian language learning process as a foreign language. Analysing the errors, it could be concluded that there is a strong influence of both mother tongue and other languages learned before. Furthermore, it could be underlined that a large number of errors are intralingual in nature due to the fact they occured as a resuls of transfer from mother tongue or other foreign language. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 989 Title A name given to the resource Encouraging Students’ Creativity through Literature in EFL Classes Author Author Uster, Sema Yuksel, Emel Abstract A summary of the resource. Over the years, it has been stated that creativity focuses on how we think and our strong desire to achieve something new or different. It is very important for language as well because the main purpose of language is to conduct the messages during communication. Individuals may wish to transfer their messages through different tools, which they would find out through creation. Therefore, encouraging creativity should be a purpose of language teachers as creative communication is both needed and crucial. Use of literature is an effective way of encouraging creativity in language classes. A creative context implies an environment of possibility which offers choices and encourages students to play with ideas and words and find innovative ways forward. Teachers want to include form, function and rules of language in those by helping students explore these in meaningful contexts. In this sense, literature is of the greatest help as it provides ways to achieve that. This paper aims to study the ways to exploit literary texts in order to have students discover language patterns with form and function; as well as the ways to foster students’ creativity through the use of literature. For this purpose, regular language and reading lessons were held with an EFL class of 21 students. The attitudes of the students and the classroom teacher have been identified through interviews and questionnaires. In addition, the academic performances of the students have been evaluated at the beginning and the end of the research process. As a result, it has been seen that both students and the teacher had positive attitudes towards the use of literature in language classes and the academic performances have increased. In conclusion, this study can help creativity through the use of literary texts be placed in teaching foreign language as a new trend. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/files/original/a8bfe967d8aa4ba244496cb6ebec6264.pdf 17e4fe883e4a9b1719c1b9fa0a71d22a PDF Text Text Journal of Economic and Social Studies EDITORIAL A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Development in the Balkan Countries Okyay UCAN Faculty of Economics, Nigde University, Turkey, okyayu@hotmail.com Fatih CELEBIOGLU Faculty of Economics Dumlupinar University, Turkey fcelebioglu@hotmail.com Welcome to the Special Issue of Journal of Economic and Social Studies (JECOSS). While JECOSS aims to embody interdisciplinary areas such as economics, business administration, public administration, political studies, international relations, labor economics and industrial relations, econometrics, sociology and psychology, this Special Issue focuses on contemporary economic issues in the Balkans and is titled as "A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Development in the Balkan Countries".. The Balkan Peninsula (South Eastern Europe) is an important area where both important historical and political events are taken place for the centuries. It has also recently experienced an unprecedented transformation. Over the past two decades, the Balkan Countries have gone through very important economic, social and political changes. Some former socialist countries (Bulgaria-2007, Slovenia-2004 and Romania-2007) and Greece (1981) have become full members of the EU. Some other Balkan countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia) have experienced fierce political conflicts which ended up with the wars in the region in 1990s. Following the turmoil, these countries have started to struggle for economic, social and political reconstruction process. In the war and during economic and politicaltransformation, many of the Balkan countries had economically declined. Their welfare levels had gone down. 5 �Okyay UCAN & Fatih CELEBIOGLU These countries have still important problems in economic area, although they have slowly been witnessing political stabilization in the recent years. This special issue of Journal of Economic and Social Studies concentrates on recent economic developments in the Balkan States and provides a basis for shaping the future direction for sustainable economic policies in the region. In this regard, taken a comparative analysis approach, the special issue tries to collect anumber of the qualified studies about the Balkan economies, to make multi-dimensional predictions/projections about economic future of the Balkan Countries and to encourage debate on various approaches related to development strategies for the region. We bring together the original contributions utilizing the contemporary methodology and data. Both conceptual and empirical papers are welcomed. Papers that provide intuitive contemplations of data that leads to be extracted policy implications for both planners of the region and future researchers are given priority. The Special Issue includes the articles on some important subjects (as Competitiveness Factors; Comparative Analysis for Banking Sector; Insurance Market Development; Gender Responsive Budgeting as Smart Economics; The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Banking Sector; The Affecting Channels of the Global Crisis; Social Sustainability; Roles of Investment and Innovation in Business; Monetary Policy Transmission; Costs and Benefits of the EU Enlargement; Evaluation of Financial Performance of Banking Sector) for the Balkan Countries. Vladimir Šimić and Lena Malešević-Perović investigate monetary policy transmission in the Balkans in the 21st century. In order to analyse the reaction of output and prices to a shock in monetary policy (defined as an increase in the interest rate) this study employs structural vector autoregression approach. Haris Kurtagić and Elif Nuroglu comparatively investigate costs and benefits of the EU enlargement on the EU and see countries. Taking into consideration the costs of enlargement, the paper examines the effects of enlargement on trade flows, and its significance on the development of SEEC’s. It also tries to see the impact of enlargement on the well-being of SEE countries. Moreover, it offers a solution for the South-east European countries which is the creation of the Balkan Union. Nađa Dreca makes a comparative analysis of the financial performance of the banking sector in some ex-Yu countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia for period from 2005 to 2010.this paper show that banking system of 6 Journal of Economic and Social Studies �A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Developments in the Balkan Countries these countries suffers from problems in the banking sector, largely influenced by its huge debt to IMF, political situation, financial crisis, internal situation and other political factors. In the paper of Başak Gül AKTAKAS, Cengiz AYTUN and Cemil Serhat AKIN, business cycles is analyzed for 1971-2009 period by using the yearly data in Turkey and Greece and it has been dealt with the effects of investment and innovation on cyclical fluctuation. In the paper which growth rates have been discussed, ordinary least square estimation method has been used. The paper has examined the effect of innovation on investment and income. Azra Bičo and Mehmed Ganić analyze the banking sector's performance of the two former Yugoslavian republics, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper is the first study examining the efficiency of banking sector in two countries. The article of Nikola Dacev presents an insurance market research of the markets in several Balkan countries that were part of former Yugoslavia and are still not members of EU. Being categorized as developing countries, they have far lower development degree in comparison with the European Insurance Federation member countries. Other article of Mehmed Ganic is about the impact of the global financial crisis on the banking sector of Western Balkans. The paper examines the extent and impact of the global financial crises on position of the banking sector of Western Balkans covering both pre-crisis and crisis period as well as to provide an explanation for these trends. Merima AVDAGIĆ and Faruk HUJIĆ give a comparative analysis of two different frameworks for inclusion of gender in fiscal economics through gender responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives that took place over one decade - from 2000 till 2010 in two former Yugoslavian republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Republic of Macedonia (Macedonia). The article that belongs to Alica Pandzo, Kemal Taljanovic and Selma Jahic explores the impact measurement practices of microcredit organizations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and their use of information systems in this process. They draw on the latest trends of using shared measurement systems for impact monitoring, to point out the potential of using such systems to achieve sustainable impact on wider social issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 7 �Okyay UCAN & Fatih CELEBIOGLU Kazım Develioğlu and Kemal KANTARCI aim to examine competitive factors in the Balkan countries to develop a road map for investors. To do this, they used World Economic Forum’s “Global Competitiveness Index” to analyze the case of the Balkan countries as a region to cluster and compare them based on Global competitiveness factors. Analysis results pointed out those Balkan countries were clustered in two groups and scored lower or medium level on almost all competitive factors as the region. Based on these findings, authors suggested various strategic recommendations at micro and macro level. Ali Şen and Hüseyin Altay search the channels of contagion in the global crisis in Balkan countries. According to their empirical findings obtaining from the panel regression results, until the global crisis, the external variables significantly promoted the abilities of their growth. However, the contributions of external variables on GDP growth rate reduced sharply with the global crisis. We hope that this Special Issue will be a reference paper for researchers that want to search on the region. Besides, we want to thank Assoc. Prof. Dr. TeomanDuman (editor of JECOSS and Vice Rector of International Burch University), Mersid POTURAK (editorial assistant of JECOSS), other workers of the University and JECOSS, all referees and all authors of the Special Issue, because of their valuable contributions. 8 Journal of Economic and Social Studies � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1385 Title A name given to the resource A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Development in the Balkan Countries Author Author UÇAN, Okyay Fatih , Çelebioğlu Abstract A summary of the resource. Welcome to the Special Issue of Journal of Economic and Social Studies (JECOSS). While JECOSS aims to embody interdisciplinary areas such as economics, business administration, public administration, political studies, international relations, labor economics and industrial relations, econometrics, sociology and psychology, this Special Issue focuses on contemporary economic issues in the Balkans and is titled as "A Comparative Analysis of Current Economic Development in the Balkan Countries".. The Balkan Peninsula (South Eastern Europe) is an important area where both important historical and political events are taken place for the centuries. It has also recently experienced an unprecedented transformation. Over the past two decades, the Balkan Countries have gone through very important economic, social and political changes. Some former socialist countries (Bulgaria-2007, Slovenia-2004 and Romania-2007) and Greece (1981) have become full members of the EU. Some other Balkan countries (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia) have experienced fierce political conflicts which ended up with the wars in the region in 1990s. Following the turmoil, these countries have started to struggle for economic, social and political reconstruction process. In the war and during economic and politicaltransformation, many of the Balkan countries had economically declined. Their welfare levels had gone down. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available International Burch University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Article PeerReviewed H Social Sciences (General),HB Economic Theory,HG Finance https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/files/original/4afab8f95d651b370e5aa65c12fe3f82.pdf b2a0385ee319a32227212414cc21fefa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 1386 Title A name given to the resource Monetary Policy Transmission in the Balkans in the 21st Century: Empirical Evidence Author Author Vladimir, Šimić Lena, Malešević-Perović Abstract A summary of the resource. This study investigates monetary policy transmission in the Balkans in the 21st century. In order to analyse the reaction of output and prices to a shock in monetary policy (defined as an increase in the interest rate), this study employs structural vector auto regression approach. The obtained impulse responses suggest that monetary policy in the six Balkan countries under investigation is not effective in influencing output and prices, which points towards a very limited use of monetary policy in the overall conduct of economic policy. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available International Burch University Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Article PeerReviewed H Social Sciences (General),HB Economic Theory,HG Finance Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 857 Title A name given to the resource Plagiarism: What are the Major Types and Causes among Iranian ELT Students? Author Author Weisi , Hiwa Mirzabeigi, Masoud Abstract A summary of the resource. The present study aims to investigate plagiarism and its major types and causes among Iranian MA students majoring in ELT. It also aims at finding the possible similarities and differences between male and female students in terms of committing plagiarism. To do this, three classes of MA students majoring in ELT from Ilam and Shiraz universities were selected randomly from Iranian National Universities. Relying on the results of the previous studies, the study divides the causes of committing plagiarism into three major types: Time, Motivation and Awareness. To investigate plagiarism and its causes a questionnaire with 19 five-choice items was designed and through pilot study its validity and reliability were obtained. Based on Rajeev (2009) classification, plagiarism was classified into five types: full, self, partial, minimalistic and source-citation plagiarism and these were embedded in the questionnaire. The results of the study showed that as far as gender difference is concerned no significant difference was found between male and female participants with regard to the extent of committing various types of plagiarism. However, it also showed that the males were more familiar with the rules of reporting, quoting, giving reference and citation than the females. As for the causes of committing plagiarism the results showed that concerning Time both males and females had similar attitudes, while their attitudes toward Motivation and Awareness was different. Finally, while most of the females knew the lack of knowledge as a major cause of plagiarizing most males knew Motivation (not being read their term papers by the professors) as the major reason for committing plagiarism. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 986 Title A name given to the resource Unavailable “Gazel” Lyrics in Rizayi Dewan Author Author Yapici, Sefika Gonel, Huseyin Abstract A summary of the resource. Mehmed Ali Celebi who wrote by using the pesudonym “Rizayi” is one of the poets of 17th century. He has both works written in prose and one “müretteb dewan”. It is stated that first 15 couplets of 15. number qasida in that dewan was unread before. In a corpus (mecmua), recorded with R-6809 number and named “Mecmua-i Devavin” in Gazi Husrev Bey Library, in Bosnia, those unread 15 couplets is detected. Furthermore, there are 9 unavailable gazel lyrics in Rizayi Dewan in the same corpus. There are poems of Rizayi in Mecmua-i Devavin. The writer of that corpus wrote till “Kaf” letter among the poems of that poet. He chose poems among the poems of that poet. We will publish above mentioned unavailable 9 gazel lyrics in the dewan and first 15 couplets. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 966 Title A name given to the resource A Study of Death of a Salesman in the Light of Louis Althusser’s “Ideology” Author Author Yazdani, Saeed Exir, Mohammad Abstract A summary of the resource. Althusser’s work on “ideology” offers literary critics the possibility of an entirely new kind of literary criticism. It has offered a revolutionary theory of society in whose terms literature could be understood, and a politically significant rationale for doing so. In the light of his work, it seemed that literary criticism could for the first time become both scientifically true and politically radical. The main purpose behind an ideology is to offer change in society and introduce a set of ideals where conformity already exists, through a normative thought process. What ideology creates in people’s minds is a sense of illusion of being important and also being free. The result of such an imposed thought is loss of identity which Althusser mentions as a process of turning individuals into subjects and the slaves of the system unconsciously. The core of all Miller’s works is fragmentation of the American society. He left for the history of theater, his great tragedy, Death of a Salesman, as an outstanding modern drama. Miller is an anomalous figure in the American theater, both reviled and exalted to the highest level for his work, often for the same reason. His themes are shaped more by social and political arguments than by the grieving of the human heart. Death of a Salesman mixes the tradition of social realism that informs most of Miller’s works with a more experimental structure that includes fluid leaps in time as the main character, Willy Loman, drifts into memories of his sons as teenagers and turns to be a victim of his own delusions of grandeur and obsession with success, which leads to failure. In this article an attempt is made to analyze Miller’s work the light of Althusser’s ideology, with reference to such new concepts as Interpellation (Subject), ISAs (Ideological State Apparatuses), RSA (Repressive State Apparatus). Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 965 Title A name given to the resource Integrating Content and Language in the Curriculum: The Dual Focus of CLIL Author Author Yolanda, Ruiz de Zarobe Abstract A summary of the resource. The phenomenon of multilingualism has increased in the last years in Europe, supported by the initiatives undertaken by the Council of Europe (2006), which encourage intercultural communication and multilingualism as key policy goals in the European scenario. Among the recommendations of the Committee of Ministers concerning modern languages, we can highlight concrete measures to promote multilingualism, such as the support in the application of communication and information technologies to disseminate teaching and learning materials for all European national or regional languages, or the promotion of teaching programmes at all levels using a flexible approach, and their appropriate recognition in national qualification systems, in particular public examinations. One of the measures which have attracted a great deal of attention in the last years is the encouragement in the use of foreign languages in the teaching of non-linguistic subjects (for example history, geography, mathematics) and the implementation of favourable conditions for such teaching. With the aim of providing an answer to these needs, an educational approach has been implemented throughout Europe: Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), which seeks to increase the presence of the foreign language by teaching curricular content through the medium of that foreign language. This paper analyses the rationale of CLIL as one of the most effective frameworks to foster multilingualism and to help in foreign/second language learning. Plurilingual Education in Europe: 50 Years of International Cooperation (2006) Council of Europe: Language Policy Division: Strasbourg. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012 Keywords Keywords. Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed P Philology. Linguistics