The question, ‘Who should teach courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP)?’ has been a matter of controversy for decades in the field of English language teaching (ELT). However, in the course of time, there has appeared to be a consensus on allocating the responsibility of teaching ESP courses to English teachers due to their overwhelming success in teaching practice in comparison to content experts. In fact, the success of ESP teachers appears to rely on the five key roles identified by Dudley Evans and St. John (1998) who called them ‘ESP practitioners’, which are the roles of a teacher, a researcher, a course designer, a material provider, a collaborator and an evaluator. In this book, you will find a compact pack of how to become ‘an ESP practitioner’ by following the footsteps of the leading researchers in the ESP literature. Besides, it is the responsibility of ESP practitioners at tertiary level education to catch up with the needs and mindset of the generation Z individuals via technology-integrated pedagogical strategies as is the case with one of the recent blended learning approaches, the flipped learning approach. Thus, in this book you will also find the elements of creating a flipped learning environment, relying on the related literature on how to become a flipped learning practitioner. On this basis, driven by Dr İlter’s doctoral dissertation, ‘Developing ESP Courses in the Flipped Learning Environment’ is relied on an evidence-based literature review concerning the flipped learning perspective in ESP practices in EFL settings. It is hoped that this review will satisfy an existing need in the ESP field by suggesting the flipped learning strategy as an alternative to benefit from in the design and implementation processes of developing an ESP course at a tertiary level EFL setting.

Writing for academic purposes is a tricky issue, especially for researchers who are eager to be recognized by larger academic discourse communites through their publications. Indeed, writing for prestigious databases and especially in English has been the basic concern of researchers with EFL background. However, in the last thirty years, the leading figures in ESP and EAP realms have developed pedagogical writing models and emphasized the critical role of genre analysis as road map in academic writing for researchers, with the very term of John Swales, who are looking for creating research space in local and international academic platforms. Thus, driven from these inspiring models in the literature, which are basicly prolific outcomes of genre based writing pedagogy, I, as a researcher, eager to cover all these pragmatic tools in a way that reseachers and, especially, novice researchers would easily catch the essence of writing for academic discourses in terms of positioning themselves in these discourses by synthesizing relevant parts of my master thesis and dissertation. Thus, as a motivational, inspring and reader friendly guide, Genre Analysis Based Pedagogy: Writing for Academic Discourses firstly explains genre as a term within paradigms and the critical position of genre analysis based writing pedagogy and genre analysis as methodology. Followingly, the models specifically put by ESP and EAP experts and practitioners are provided briefly and clearly for researchers in such a way that will guide them in rhetorically and lexico-grammatically structuring of their academic texts, or academic genres, section by section and holistically in English. Thus, through this self-help book, researchers can organize their academic genres with a professional academic tone in English, which will ease, as Hyland pointed out, contextualizing their genres into wider academic contexts.

Cinsiyet ve üreme, canlı yaşamının sürekliliğini sağlar. İnsanlarda cinsellik doğumla başlar ve tüm yaşam boyunca devam eder. Cinsel kimlik, kişinin biyolojik cinsiyetinden farklı olarak kendisini kadın ya da erkek olarak algılamasıdır. Sağlıklı bir cinsel kimlik gelişiminde cinsel kimlik, kişinin cinsiyetinden haberdar olması, cinsiyetine uygun davranışlar göstermesi ve bundan mutluluk duyması önemlidir.

Cinsel eğitim bireyin fiziksel, duygusal ve cinsel gelişimini anlaması olumlu bir kişilik kavramı geliştirmesi, insan cinselliğine, başkalarının haklarına, görüş ve davranışlarına saygılı bir bakış açısı edinmesi ve olumlu davranış biçimi, değer yargıları geliştirmesi eğitimidir.

Cinsel eğitimde öncelikle anne babaların eğitimi hedeflenmelidir. Aksi takdirde anne babaların istemediği takdirde çocuklar ya da ergenler istemediği kişilerden bilgi edinebilir, gözetleme, takip etme yoluna başvurabilirler, yaşıtlarından bilgi alabilirler, kendi başlarına deneyler yapabilirler. Ailede başlayan cinsel eğitim okulda da sistemli bir şekilde sürmelidir.

Ülkemiz gibi cinsel eğitim konusuna tedirgin, çekingen, korkak yaklaşılan, ayıp günah sayılan ülkelerde bu sorumluluk daha da artmaktadır. Sorumluluğun kapsamında sadece çocuklar gençler değil her yaştan her sosyo-ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel düzeyden insanların olması gerekmektedir. Bu kitabın anne babalara öğretmenlere öğretmen adaylarına ve konuyla ilgilenen herkese yararlı olması dilerim.