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Kaos/Karmaşıklık Sistemi Olarak Dil Öğrenme:İranlı EFL Öğrencilerinin Geçmişlerine Dayalı Kanıtlar

Language Learning as Chaos/Complexity System: Evidence Based on Iranian EFL Learners' Backgrounds

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22–56
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2022-11-05
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In regard to the theoretical underpinnings and insights of C/CT, the derived meaningsand themes showed the pieces of evidence to justify the complexities of Iranian EFL learnerslanguage learning.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Language learning process was traditionally investigated through the reductionist perspective asa fixed, linear, cause and effect phenomenon in addition to imposing three levels of reductionismincluding context reduction, data reduction, and complexity reduction on the field of SecondLanguage Acquisition (SLA).
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Key Findings & Data:With the emergence of Chaos/Complexity Theory (CC/T),language learning was considered as a nonlinear, complex, and dynamic system evolving,growing, and changing from the bottom-up in an organic and unpredictable manner through thedynamics of language.
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Conclusion & Impact:In regard to the theoretical underpinnings and insights of C/CT, the derived meaningsand themes showed the pieces of evidence to justify the complexities of Iranian EFL learnerslanguage learning.
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Abstract

Language learning process was traditionally investigated through the reductionist perspective asa fixed, linear, cause and effect phenomenon in addition to imposing three levels of reductionismincluding context reduction, data reduction, and complexity reduction on the field of SecondLanguage Acquisition (SLA). With the emergence of Chaos/Complexity Theory (CC/T),language learning was considered as a nonlinear, complex, and dynamic system evolving,growing, and changing from the bottom-up in an organic and unpredictable manner through thedynamics of language. Considering language learning as a complex system, its complex behavioras a whole is influenced by a large number of factors, forces, and agents within or beyond itsboundaries which is more than the behavior of its individual components. Despite the fact thatC/CT provides new insights, understandings, and implications for researchers in the field ofSLA, very few practical attempts are available which investigate the complexities of languagelearning. Accordingly, ten male/ female Iranian EFL learners participated in this narrativeresearch based on purposive sampling. The researcher used semi-structured interview to elicitparticipants histories and stories concerning their language learning process. After thetranscription of the data, the participants personal experiences and histories in terms of time and place were reorganized, analyzed, and shaped into a framework on the basis of a chronologicalsequence. In regard to the theoretical underpinnings and insights of C/CT, the derived meaningsand themes showed the pieces of evidence to justify the complexities of Iranian EFL learnerslanguage learning.

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Dil öğrenme süreci; geleneksel olarak, İkinci Dil Edinimi (SLA) alanında bağlam azaltma, veriazaltma ve karmaşıklık azaltma şeklinde üç aşamalı bir indirgemeyi empoze ederken indirgemecibir bakış açısıyla sabit, doğrusal, sebep-sonuç ilişkili bir fenomen olarak incelenmiştir.Kaos/Karmaşıklık Teorisinin (CC/T) ortaya çıkmasıyla birlikte dil öğrenme, dilin dinamikleriyleaşağıdan yukarıya organik ve öngörülemeyen bir biçimde gelişen, büyüyen ve değişen doğrusalolmayan, karmaşık ve dinamik bir sistem olarak nitelendirilmiştir. Dil öğrenimi karmaşık birsistem olarak düşünüldüğünde, bunun bir bütün olarak karmaşık davranışları, bireyselbileşenlerinin davranışlarından çok, sınırları içindeki veya dışındaki çok sayıda faktör, kuvvet vearacı tarafından etkilenir. C/CT, SLA alanındaki araştırmacılar için yeni fikir, anlayış veçıkarımlar sağlamasına karşın, dil öğreniminin karmaşıklığını incelemeye yönelik çok az sayıdapratik girişim bulunmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda, on erkek / kadın İranlı EFL öğrencisi amaçlıörneklemeye dayalı bu anlatı araştırmasına katıldı. Araştırmacı, katılımcıların dil öğrenmesüreciyle ilgili geçmişlerini ve öykülerini ortaya çıkarmak için yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşmekullandı. Verilerin transkripsiyonunun ardından katılımcıların zaman ve mekân bağlamındakibireysel deneyimleri ve geçmişleri yeniden düzenlendi, incelendi ve kronolonojik sıralanımadayalı bir çerçeveye yerleştirildi. C/CTnin teorik destek ve içgörüleri ışığında, elde edilen anlamve temalar İranlı EFL öğrencilerinin dil öğrenimi karmaşıklığını gerekçelendirmek için kanıtparçaları sundular.

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SAFARI, P., RASHIDI, N. (2022). Kaos/Karmaşıklık Sistemi Olarak Dil Öğrenme:İranlı EFL Öğrencilerinin Geçmişlerine Dayalı Kanıtlar. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry, Cilt: 6 - Sayı: 4, 22–56. https://ajindex.com/articles/617100

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