The Development of Multiliteracies in Turkish class
by Dr. Yao-Kai Chi, American Councils for The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), Turkish lecturer
This study introduced the student-oriented and project-based Deep Approach (DA) pedagogy and discussed how this pedagogy contributed to the development of multiliteracies of Taiwanese adult learners of Turkish. The result shows that the DA pedagogy empowered students to be knowledge producers. They also developed five capabilities as world language learners.
About the presenter
YAO-KAI CHI
ELEMENTARY TURKISH INSTRUCTOR
Yao-Kai Chi earned his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his MA in Translation Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and his BA in Turkish Language and Culture from National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan. Prior to his Ph.D. study in Madison, Chi taught Turkish language and culture courses for Taiwanese undergraduate students. He is still currently teaching online Turkish courses for adult learners. Chi is also an amateur translator, publishing his first translated work from Turkish into Mandarin Chinese in 2016. He also collaborated with the faculty of the Turkish department in Taiwan to publish a textbook Türkçe Öğreniyoruz II in 2019. Chi believes that learning should connect with personal interests. He emphasizes the creation of a learner-centered environment where students can connect the foreign language learning with their daily lives. His dissertation topic is about learner identity of adult students of Turkish.