{"id":112,"date":"2024-03-13T15:18:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/?post_type=project&#038;p=112"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:14:00","slug":"merhaba","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/coerll.utexas.edu\/coerll\/project\/merhaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Her \u015eey Bir Merhaba ile Ba\u015flar! (Everything Begins with a Hello!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Her \u015eey Bir Merhaba ile Ba\u015flar!<\/em><\/strong> is a multimedia textbook with supplementary materials for intermediate Turkish language learners, developed by Dr. Jeannette Okur at the University of Texas at Austin and published by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning under the U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant #P229A180003, with additional support from the UT Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services and the UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The textbook, YouTube channel and website with interactive H5P exercises comprise an openly licensed curriculum focused on developing Intercultural Communicative Competence. The four units invite learners to engage with culturally rich print, audio and video texts and use the target language to investigate, explain and reflect on the relationship between contemporary Turks\u2019 socio-cultural practices, products, and perspectives. Each unit addresses a different aspect of society: family, love and marriage, the environment, and art and politics, and contains the following components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>contextualized grammar lessons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>videos of Turks speaking about their lives and their country<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>activities that hone language skills while raising awareness about contemporary Turkish society<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>interactive, auto-correct exercises that facilitate learners\u2019 acquisition of vocabulary and syntax structures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Her \u015eey Bir Merhaba ile Ba\u015flar!<\/em> textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. It is downloadable for free in PDF or adaptable Google Docs format and is also available for purchase as a print-on-demand book from Lulu.com and Amazon.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COERLL project presentation 2022: Her \u015eey Bir Merhaba ile Ba\u015flar\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dMaRJQBI2sY?list=PL5MZT53EMrcem4Ah3foRteq4RI9oG3sbh\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Presentation on an  Open Textbook for Intermediate Turkish (2022)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"grant":[7,57],"class_list":["post-112","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","grant-lrc","grant-lrc-2018"],"acf":{"project_directors":[{"project_director_name":"Jeannette Okur","project_director_link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/mes\/faculty\/jo8346"}],"partners":[{"partner_name":"UT Center for Middle Eastern Studies","partner_link":"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/mes\/center-for-middle-eastern-studies\/"},{"partner_name":"UT Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services","partner_link":"https:\/\/laits.utexas.edu\/services\/"}],"start_year":2018,"end_year":2022,"link":"https:\/\/merhaba.coerll.utexas.edu","project_resources":[{"resource_link":{"title":"Her \u015eey Bir Merhaba ile Ba\u015flar! 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