With no doubt, evaluation has a significant role to ensure continuous improvement of any course, and ESP course, which is included in language teaching programs to satisfy a particular need, is not an exception. However, ESP course evaluation studies are still rare. With this in mind, this study reports the tertiary level students’ end-of-course evaluations regarding the ESP course offered within Banking department at Applied Sciences School of a state university in Turkey. Adopting survey methodology to unearth instances of the case being examined within its natural context from the perspective of its participants i.e. the students, the study gathered quantitative data through a scale which the students (N=96) reflected back on; the ESP practitioner, course materials, and course, and also qualitative data via open-ended items to elicit the students’ evaluations regarding the strengths of the course and likely changes and improvements. While the analysis of the quantitative data broadly showed the students’ satisfaction with the ESP practitioner, course materials, and the course itself, the content analysis of the qualitative data revealed insights regarding such issues as content-specific instruction and language skills development as strengths of the course. However, the qualitative data also showed that the students’ evaluations upon likely changes and improvements such as use of L1, teacher talk, and assessment diverged, which indicate heterogeneity as a challenge along the way impeding the effectiveness of ESP courses.

This study examined senior pre-service English teachers’ (PSTs) state of preparedness to teach and its sources during their field experience in practicum schools. In a longitudinal descriptive design, including school experience and teaching practicum phases, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 PSTs. Cross-sectional and retrospective data were collected and analyzed through constant comparison method. In the beginning of the entire process, the PSTs were observed to be either prepared or not prepared to teach. However, as the field experience continued, those who felt somehow prepared to teach emerged. Besides, despite obvious decrease in their number over the field experience, those who felt prepared to teach were more compared to those who were not prepared or somehow prepared to teach. Although the PSTs attached their preparedness to teach to higher teaching-efficacy perceptions and their unpreparedness to teach to untested teaching competencies before experiencing field experience, having been through the process, they were observed to put strong emphasis on their fulfilled professional and developmental needs by their school-based mentors. Despite variations and fluctuations in the sources that the PSTs attached their preparedness to teach to, and among others such as perceptions of higher teaching efficacy, the findings revealed the pivotal role that school-based mentoring played upon the development of PSTs’ preparedness to teach.

In this research, in the works titled "My Name Is Nobody", " When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit ", "If I Were a Bird, If I Fly Home" and "The Little Immigrant", which deal with the subject of immigration and immigration, it is aimed to convey the aspects of these subjects to the reader and how the works are suitable for children and children. It is aimed to determine whether it is tr ue to reality or not. In the study, document analysis, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used and content analysis was used in the analysis of the data obtained. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. In the analyzed works, it has been determined that the reasons for migration, language/agreement problem, difficulties experienced, experiences in the process of adaptation to migration and social acceptance process are mainly discussed. In the works in question, it has been concluded that the problems experienced by the migrating children are combined in the axis of 1. Othering, 2. Poverty/Materia l Difficulties, 3. Fear and Anxiety. In the works, it is seen that the social lives of immigrant children, their psychological state, feelings of self-confidence, and their search for identity are discussed in detail. It has been concluded that the works reveal the perspective of the society towards immigrants and enable them to empathize with them.

Preservice English language teachers (PSTs) realize and shape their perceptions regarding preparedness to teach during their education. However, being prepared to teach is complex and multifaceted and requires individual factors and interaction with context and other people. Therefore, understanding it from stakeholders’ lens is needed. Within a descriptive and exploratory design, one-on-one, semistructured interviews were conducted with 8 faculty advisors (FAs) and 11 cooperating teachers (CTs) supervising PSTs in primary, secondary, and high schools in a northwestern city in Türkiye. The data collected in teaching practicum stage of field experience was coded and categorized via constant comparison method of analysis. The FAs, except for few issues, regarded the PSTs as unprepared to teach, while the CTs did as prepared to teach. The emergence of a perception gap could show lack of common understanding and mismatch between the stakeholders’ perceptions regarding their standards of and approaches toward high-quality teacher preparation.

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