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EFL instructors’ engagement with AI as digital media: A qualitative case study from Türkiye
(Sage, 2026-05) Ocaktan Çeliktürk, Halenur; 414465
Despite growing interest in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into language education, research on how EFL instructors adopt, experience, and sustain the use of AI-driven tools over time remains limited. This qualitative study explores Turkish EFL instructors' perceptions and uses of AI-driven tools through the lens of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The findings indicate that although most participants initially hesitated to integrate AI-driven tools, they gradually became active users, reflecting increased openness shaped by social influence and contextual factors consistent with the UTAUT framework. While instructors did not consistently adopt technological innovations, they demonstrated curiosity and eagerness to experiment with tools perceived as enhancing teaching performance. Performance expectancy and facilitating conditions, particularly access to technological resources, emerged as key factors influencing adoption. ChatGPT was identified as the most frequently used tool, followed by Grammarly and QuillBot, for material development, assessment, in-class activities, and feedback. At the same time, participants expressed concerns about overreliance and the lack of structured institutional training to support ethical and effective AI use. Overall, the study underscores the growing significance of AI integration in EFL education and highlights the need for sustained professional development to support responsible and pedagogically informed AI-driven practices.
Wreckage and Rule: Necropolitical and Biopolitical Configurations of Urban Space in J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island
(RumeliYa Yayıncılık, 2025) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Yılmaz, Yakup
Engaged primarily with the detrimental effects of modernism and late capitalism, which have a destructive impact on humanity, Ballard registers these impacts in all his works from various perspectives. Bearing this approach in mind, Ballard’s writing shifts its focus from external realities to internal experiences, aiming to explore how technology shapes one’s perception, memory, and desires. Grounded in the formative experience of turmoil and confinement, this preoccupation of Ballard forms the basis for all his works, establishing his reputation in post-war English literature. Celebrated for his challenging style and satirical tone in his depiction of bleak, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic scenarios, James Graham Ballard (1930–2009) holds a significant role in the world of English fiction through his novels, short stories, and essays. Born in Shanghai and interned in a Japanese civilian camp during World War II, Ballard’s earlier experiences of imprisonment and societal collapse contributed significantly to his literary imagination, as later fictionalised in his Empire of the Sun (1984).
A Zone of Death: Ballardian Necropolitical Sovereignty in Concrete Island
(RumeliYa, 2025-07) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Yılmaz, Yakup
This study focuses on J.G. Ballard’s Concrete Island (1974) through the theoretical lens of necropolitics defined by Achille Mbembe to analyse the abandonment and exclusion of certain lives within the infrastructural settings of late modernity. Centring on the protagonist Robert Maitland, stranded in an abandoned interstice of a London motorway - an island within a hyperfunctioning urban framework, the novel details the bitter struggles of an individual to survive. His descent into an utter physical deterioration and psychological disintegration depicts a necropolitical rationale in which the system of the state and its technological mechanisms determine not only who is entitled to live, but more crucially, who can be permitted to die. In this context, this study posits that the motorway island in the novel portrays a necropolitical zone as an uncontrollable space that partially exists within and outside the urban framework, where normative protections and social acknowledgements are put on hold. It is through this marginalisation that Ballard also criticises the immunitarian structures of neoliberal urbanism. Through this spatial marginalisation, Ballard critiques the immunitarian structures of neoliberal urbanism, which prioritise speed, efficiency, and visibility, while transforming certain bodies and lives into throwaways. Putting Maitland’s ongoing dehumanisation process in front of the eyes of the reader, Ballard illustrates how sophisticated infrastructure leads to a desolate environment with human detritus, reminding the reader of Mbembe’s claim that the ultimate expression of sovereign power is verified in its capacity to determine the individuals who are allowed to continue living and who are not. Building on Roberto Esposito’s immunitary paradigm and urban biopolitical theory, this study explores Ballard’s Concrete Island within the contemporary discussions focusing on urban isolation, social exclusion, and the politics of violence regarding the fast-developing modern world.
Integrating technology into English language teaching at Indonesian high schools: Teachers’ reflections
(Universitas Syiah Kuala, 2025-05) Anwar, Choiril; Hartono, Hartono; Yavuz, Fatih; 131069
English Language Teaching (ELT) is something that has changed dramatically in recent times due to technology. Even though it could potentially reshape ELT, appropriate implementation remains a challenge for most teachers who are often uncertain as to how to use technology to improve learning. This article looks into the experiences and reflections of Indonesian high school English teachers integrating technology into their ELT pedagogical practices, from making lesson plans, having classroom activities, to setting up the assessment. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed through a mixed-methods approach. It involved an online survey distributed to 20 diverse Indonesian high school English teachers as well as semi-structured interviews conducted with 10 teachers. The results indicated that there is an increasing use of technology for ELT purposes, particularly to facilitate language reception, language production, and interaction. The results also found some challenges and limitations, including technical issues, training and support, and access equity. These insights can help guide the future development of Indonesian high school ELT practices, inform investment in technology infrastructure, and support targeted professional development initiatives focused on technology integration. The findings are discussed in the context of existing research on ELT and technology integration, with particular emphasis on their significance for high school English teachers in Indonesia. The results provide implications for ELT policymakers, practitioners, and researchers in Indonesia and evidence the importance of context-sensitive solutions to provide meaningful integration of technology in the variability of Indonesian high school settings.
The End of The World: Unveiling Dystopian Apocalypse in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away
(RumeliYa Yayıncılık, 2025-02) Özçelik, Kaya; 351393; Yılmaz, Yakup
Being a seminal work, Caryl Churchill’s Far Away delves deep into the layers of the end of the world by merging both dystopian and apocalyptic visions. Offering a fragmented narrative that reflects the disintegration of social, moral and natural orders of the world, Churchill’s play brings her reader/audience closer to face how the end of the world will be. The play’s structure and tone progressively immerse the audience in a world unravelling into chaos, where the boundaries between good and evil blur, and nature itself becomes embroiled in humanity’s conflicts. Through minimalist dialogue and surreal imagery, Churchill presents her reader/audience with a disturbing portrayal of a society where fear, violence, and moral ambiguity are the mere causes of the apocalypse. While the dystopian elements in the play are underlined through the depiction of authoritarian control, systemic violence, and the erasure of individual agency with Churchill’s chilling commentary on the fragility of democratic and ethical structures, themes such as the collapse of ecological and social harmony that eventually lead to an inevitable descent into global destruction form the backbone of apocalyptic discourse in Far Away. Endowing her play with postmodernist techniques such as fragmented storytelling and open-ended conclusion, Churchill invites the audience to grapple with the moral consequences of complicity and the pervasive impact of war and ecological crisis. This study examines how Far Away interweaves dystopian and apocalyptic elements to criticise contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues. Exploring themes of dehumanization, systemic oppression, and environmental decay, the play compels its reader/audience to confront the urgent ethical dilemmas of the modern world. All in all, Churchill’s work offers a potent warning about the interconnected nature of societal collapse and ecological destruction, with a specific urge to enable humanity to reconsider its role in shaping a sustainable and near future.

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