 So our last session is devoted to Turkish textbooks and we have two speakers for the first talk, designing a Turkish textbook, a Turkish language textbook and the Turkish there means talking paragraphs. So Ezra and Sadat, Ezra from the University of Kansas and Sadat, excuse me, from a Stanford University. And so I give you the floor. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Thanks a lot for joining us in this last session. So we will talk to you about our textbook. We'll first start off with a basic introduction and then we'll show you some sections of our textbook, of a sample chapter basically. So our textbook Konuşan Paragraflar is funded through KU's Open Language Resource Center and it's a textbook that aims to move students from the intermediate level, intermediate mid, intermediate high level to the advanced level. And chapters of this project will be released in a serialized fashion with work, hopefully completed during the summer of 2022. So why did we decide to write this textbook? First, there is very few textbooks at that level and most of these are designed for learners who live in Turkey as foreign nationals who receive instruction for hours on a daily basis and they learn Turkish in an immersion setting. And we wanted to create something specifically geared towards our Anglophone students at the college level. Also, existing textbooks, they lack any meaningful attention to communicative competence. There are some books that are completely dedicated to grammar, there's grammar explanations which are then followed by grammar drills, lots of grammar exercises, not any meaningful grammar exercises. Also, materials presented in reading and listening activities, those are neither authentic nor practical use, not of any interest to our students. And there's very few structured speaking and writing activities as well. And Turkish culture is largely ignored. Yeah, there's some textbook that have maybe just very few, two, three cultural, like mentioned culture in a way. So we wanted to change that and write a textbook that incorporates Activals five Cs. Thought it, if you can continue. Yeah, where are we at? So far, our book will be 12 chapters in total and we completed three chapter, we piloted, revised the chapter with the feedback and you can reach through that link. And we will also pilot the fourth chapter in the spring quarter and we'll see how it goes. And then we make the revisions and things will be getting ready. So each chapter causes of the following parts. We have a cover overview, reading part, a grammar part, spotlight on culture, listening, vocabulary and writing. So now we wanna show some part of our book. So in the cover, you will see the content and of course the learning objectives that are very clearly provided and the content. We start with infographic. Everything that infographic will also serve as a warm up activity and always a visual support and comprehensible input. Students will have a chance to compare and contrast of course. And it's a good for speaking activities. And this is also, I'm sorry, okay. For, yeah, this is another one, another infographic. They're all authentic. That's also like what matters. You will be hearing a lot about authenticity and comparing and contrast. So after this overview, we then have a reading section and each reading section starts with pre-reading activities which are skimming, scanning exercises. Then we have a vocabulary exercise and then a discussion section. And we, with this pre-reading exercises, we hope to serve to prime the students. And then we present them with an authentic text and we provide an unknown vocabulary list as well. And then after the reading text, we have post-reading activities. So first reading comprehension questions. Then we have several vocabulary exercises where students are basically have to work with the text in order to complete them. That is then followed by discussion and role-playing. So we make sure that the exercises move from controlled to more open-ended interactive language usage. After the reading, we have a grammar section and the grammar points that we focus on is based on the reading. We provide explanations on grammars and we make sure to provide lots of tables, graphs, colors to make this grammar learning a bit easier. And the exercises here in this grammar section also move from controlled to more open-ended to interactive language usage. And students are asked to produce language and grammar based on given context. So they do some contextual analysis as well and during these grammar sections. Yes, when it comes to, okay, I just wanna add little things. It's always, we are aiming modeling at the level. So our reading parts, materials is always, we are aiming at the level. So when it comes to the spotlight on culture, it's also a good, authentic materials and students can define who they are and what is their relation with the target culture and define themselves, define the target culture, create a liaison and they can compare and contrast, of course. And the spotlight on culture has also different practices we can do, students can do this in pairs, as a group and also a role-playing activities. And always in infographic are always very helpful. Then we have a listening section and the listening suite for this we use YouTube videos and make sure that they are in high quality and authentic materials again. These are then followed again by exercises where students have to work, do either role-playing or do some other communicative activities. And I'm just gonna say something else with respect to this. The listening is also based on the overall theme of the chapter. So these are just parts of the listening. And then we have a vocab section. Again, we focus on the vocabulary that is based on the overall theme of the chapter and there's a variety of exercises. So there's sometimes we make use of schematic maps, collocations, proverbs, idiomatic expressions. We focus sometimes on texting abbreviations and internet acronyms and things like that. Yeah, for writing, we are aiming social writing and also formal writing and aiming students using different text types, moving them from string of senses to paragraphs. And this is why we aim, yeah. Sorry, go ahead. No, no, no, this is why we aim social and formal writing examples. So they can write an email, they can write a formal letter also, as well as relating to the topic of course. They can also do audio recording besides. And also for listening, just a little note. So we'd have pre-listing activities as well as after post-listing activities. So it's all combined, aiming, pushing the students from one level to another. Okay, and this is about it. That's the question. I'm trying to see the chat. If there's any questions in the chat. Yes. Oh, yes. So one question is about the link. How to access this textbook. I think there is a password. So yeah, it's password protected right now, I believe. If you write an email to me, I can probably give you the password. I'll just have to look for the password. And how long have you been working on this project? So we started, when did we start, April? I think it's about like a good one year. One, almost two years, I think, actively, I would say. Yeah. Yeah, we still have quite a bit of chapters to complete. And hopefully we'll have 12 chapters completed by the summer of 2022. Yeah, we learned through, you know, like doing, actually, we were very, and we are still enthusiastic. It's not about enthusiasm, but we wanted to include more, but then comes the copyright issues and then permissions. So that's pulled us a little bit behind to really go forward. But once we set the skeleton and the system things are easier compared to when, how we begin. Yeah, and we were able to pilot as well very early on so that sort of gave us quite a lot of feedback too. So we made some changes based on the piloting as well. So hopefully after this adventure, things will be going a bit faster. But yeah, it always takes more time to develop the first few chapters than the last ones. What kind of platform will the units be made available on? So our textbook is not gonna be an online textbook. You will be able to download PDFs of it. And at some point, once this book is completed, you should be able to also purchase the book for a very small amount of money, just for printing costs basically as a book. But yeah, right now I think you can only access the PDF downloadable PDFs of each chapter. Would you be open to sharing your template skeleton to adapt to plain script dialect? Sure, we'd be happy to give you our skeleton and you can adapt it to whichever language you would like. Just send me an email and I'll give you the password. Have you decided on your open license? What exactly do you mean by that, Jeanette? I think this is something that we'll have to talk with. K-U-O-L-R, I mean, this is our resource center basically, but I don't think we sort of made a decision at this point but it should be the more open the better. Yes, I completely agree. And I think that's what we will be aiming for. I think, thank you so much.