The 1st Undergraduate Research Day, organised by the Department of English Language Teaching, is taking place on 11th May 2016 in the Navy Blue Hall, Department of Civil Engineering.
As a contribution to the research-oriented vision of the university, this event provides undergraduate students with an opportunity to share their first attempt in carrying out an empirical study with other interested parties. It also aims to give the students an opportunity to present their work in a subject-specific academic gathering.
The event is open to public and the programme is as follows:
| Time | Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| 09:00 – 09:20 | Opening – Welcome Speech | |
| 09:20 – 09:40 | Semra Karaali | Perceptions of teachers and students in relation to gender differences: The case of high school students and teachers in Turkey |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Furkan Saltık | Attitudes of English as a foreign language learners towards corrective feedback |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Nesrin Y. Birkaya | Anxiety in oral language production among undergraduate students of English as a foreign language |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Erol Akcan | Why English Language Teaching? Factors affecting departmental choices of pre-service English language teachers |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Naziyet Oralman | Attitudes of English preparatory school students towards oral and written corrective feedback |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Beste Sayım | Bilingual pre-service English language teachers' beliefs on teaching culture in EFL contexts |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Şeyma Tektaş | The relationship between different assessment methods and motivation: The views of undergraduate students |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Iryna Minyeva | Attitudes of translation students towards learning about culture through translation |
| 12:20 – 13:20 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Asya Tunççağ | Undergraduate students’ attitudes towards authoritative and authoritarian teachers |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Mehmet Bender | Freshmen students’ emotional reactions towards error correction |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Dilaram Rasulova | Pre-service English language teachers’ awareness of and attitudes towards assessment |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Rasime Miralay | Undergraduate students’ attitudes towards in-class presentations as an assessment tool |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Closing Ceremony | |