Proficiency in Listening and Reading Comprehension (PLRC) book is intended to help pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English who are preparing for proficiency examinations, such as English Prep Exemption Tests, ERASMUS English Proficiency Exams, TOEFL (ITP, CBT & iBT), TOEIC Exams, (New) YDS, e-YDS & YÖKDİL Exams, IELTS, CAE, FCE & PTE Exams, English Proficiency Exams for Army Personnel and General English Proficiency Exams. It can also be used in classroom teaching sessions or/and can be a self-study book for mastering English Language Proficiency.

The content of the book is so designed that it ensures a steady and rapid progress toward mastery of advanced structure of English, the skills of listening and reading comprehension and target oriented vocabulary practice.

In chapter one, advanced reference grammar practice covering ten major sections of the English Language grammar are presented with specific examples and supported with tests and exercises. In the end of this chapter a GATE (Grammar Achievement Test in English) test is given.

Chapter two contains a listening part that covers three main sections: intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced. In each section every listening comprehension passage is reinforced with comprehension questions. The passages contain nearly thirty different topics ranging from economy to military and are made up of forty-two comprehension passages and fifteen paragraphs. To ensure the learners' listening comprehension, almost three hundred questions are given. All the passages in this chapter were professionally recorded by two native speakers of English. The purpose of this is to make learners familiar with actual pronunciation and intonation of the English language.

The book entitled DIESEL (Developing Industrial Engineering Study through English Language) as mentioned earlier is an integrated skills-based ESP course book in professional English for Industrial Engineering students. The book is so designed that students can succeed in acquiring the technical terminology through reading ESP texts. So, the primary purpose of the book is not to teach Industrial Engineering to the students, but help them improve reading technical passages and develop a reading habit in their field of study.

The course book includes ten chapters from general to specific and simple to complex. Each chapter has a primary warm-up part along with various reading and vocabulary activities. The warm-up part is specifically designed to enable students to have oral discussions and debates prior to reading the actual texts. Reading activities urges students to read the text and then answer the questions given. A comprehension practice follows each passage and demands a comprehensive study of the text. In this part, vocabulary practice along with exercises and some other language activities are given for the purpose of motivating students to study technical vocabulary within the texts. Reading activities are designed to help students study the comprehension of the passages and vocabulary as well. In some chapters cloze tests are given related to same topic in the chapter to check students’ vocabulary comprehension.

About  the Book

The book ECEM (English for Civil Engineering Mastery) is an integrated skills-based ESP course and practice book in academic English for Civil Engineering students.    

• The course book includes eighteen units based on at least five sub topics from general to specific and simple to complex.
• Each unit has a primary warm-up part along with various reading and vocabulary activities.
• Reading activities are designed to help students study the comprehension of the passages and vocabulary.
• A comprehension practice follows each passage and demands a comprehensive study of the text.
• Vocabulary practice along with exercises and some other language activities are given for the purpose of students to study technical vocabulary within the texts.
• In some units cloze tests are given relating to the same topic in the unit to check students’ vocabulary comprehension.
• Each unit has also translation and writing parts: in the translation part, students are required to translate the given passage into their native language as an assignment;
• In writing part, various writing topics, closely related to the reading passages, are assigned to students as in-class activities or as homework.
• The most common 300 field-oriented vocabulary.
• All in all, the book covers almost 500 comprehension and vocabulary exercises.

YÖKDİL Sosyal Bilimler İngilizce Sınav Hazırlık Kitabı hakkında;

Kitap toplam dört ana bölümden oluşmaktadır:

1. Bölüm: YÖKDİL Gramer Tekrarı ve Alıştırma Çalışmaları: Bu bölümde, sınava hazırlananların gereksinim duyabilecekleri toplam 10 temel dilbilgisi konusu ele alınmış olup, her konu kısa kısa anlatılarak toplam 400 alıştırma ve küçük sınav ve bölüm sonun da gramerin genel konularını içeren, 100 sorudan oluşan genel gramer testi verilmiştir.

2. Bölüm: YÖKDİL Sınav Hazırlık Stratejileri: Sınavı oluşturan 8 bölüm içeriği ayrı ayrı değerlendirilmiş ve birer örnekle anlatılarak, konuya ilişkin çeşitli stratejiler verilmiştir. Burada verilen stratejiler tamamen akademik anlamda ele alınmıştır, ancak kişisel olarak geliştirilmiş olan çalışma ve sınav stratejilerine değinilmemiştir. Söz konusu stratejilerin kişisel stratejilerle birlikte ele alınması ve uygulanması sınavda başarı olasılığının artmasına yardımcı olacaktır.

3. Bölüm: YÖKDİL Sosyal Bilimler İngilizce Deneme Sınavları: Bu bölüm, kitabın neredeyse üçte ikisini kapsamaktadır ve kitabın ana unsuru denilebilir. Her biri özgün kaynaklardan özenle seçilmiş konulardan ve kelime bilgisinden oluşan ve hiçbir yerde yayınlanmamış özgün10 adet sınavdan meydana gelmektedir. Toplam 800 soru verilmiş olup, seçilen sözcükler, cümleler ve okuma parçalarının Sosyal Bilimler alanından sınava girecek olan adayların sınava hazırlanmalarında yardımcı olması hedeflenmiştir.

Özgün Deneme Sınavlarının hazırlanmasında, önceden çıkmış ve yayınlanmış sınavların temel konuları ve sistemi özenle takip edilmiştir.

As refugee flows have increased, western attitudes towards them have become conflicted. Attitudes towards refugees in non-western and in Muslim nations are rarely studied, though these nations accept most refugees. This study of attitudes towards refugees among tertiary students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Lebanon, Russia and Kyrgyzstan used Appraisal and content analysis frequencies and co-frequencies.

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