Greetings to everyone from the second week of the finals! Although it feels like it will be an eternal one... Alright, where were we? Oh, yes our research topic: Inequality issue in English as a second and/or foreign language. Of course we started our research with initially reviewing the literature, what are the previous research regarding our topic and honestly we were unable to reach the most relevant articles due to usual restrictions and unfortunately Sci-hub as well was out of service. We have used several research engines such as ERIC,  ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Mendeley's literature search. About a month ago we opened Dropbox accounts and started to make our organizations through Dropbox by uploading our findings, conceptual maps and outlines, and so on. Then, we also thought that Mendeley can be very handy in organizing the articles in a library and adjusting citations and references. For those who d not know, Mendeley is a free reference and citation generator and it quite lightens your burden when you struggling to work on your research papers. You can alternatively use Zotero and check which works best for you. 

After downloading it and creating our group (Chamber of Mercury), we were able to collaboratively read the articles we have found in an organized manner and thus I and my dear colleagues highly recommend this tool if you are planning to do exhaustive research studies in your field. 

There are a few issues I would like to reproach, which is that the number of articles in our research area is quite limited; we faced limitations when we tried to access full versions of the articles which we found most relevant to our research study. It is sad on the one hand that such an important issue has not received enough attention, and on the other hand, it puts more responsibility on us in investigating the causes of inequalities and proposing realistic solutions. 

When the final week is over, I will update here again and I will be sharing the developments we have made with my group members. Until then, take good care of yourself and if you are in the exam period, I wish you good luck!!!

 First of all, greetings from these first days of the new year. I hope this year will be super duper year for all of us in which we will see each other more often in physical environments. 

With the new year, it is again the time to turn back to our responsibilities. In the previous post, I mentioned that we are going to produce an outline/a road map for our research field and then build our website on it. So we did and we were asked to collaboratively work on Dropbox and create our outline through Mindomo (a collaborative tool for mind maps and outlines). Because from the beginning of the training now on we were mainly working on World Englishes and GELT, we wanted to choose an all inclusive issue to work on but we also didn't want to retell what has already been discussed. Therefore, we preferred an umbrella topic: "Inequality in English Language Education" emphasizing its presence not only for language learners but also language teachers such as practices of native speakerism and for the learners of English as a second/foreing language, conforming to so-called ideal speaker model.  Therefore, we will have the opportunity to tap on English as a global language and to ensure awareness on World Englishes and intercultural aspect of language teaching while also digging deeper on the issues of globalization, immigration, having equal access to education and language materials. 

The reason why we, as a group (Chamber of Mercury) chose this inequality issue because it is a very broad term and it needs attention of educational authorities, teachers within the field of ELT, ESL and EFL learners and even the family members. In that sense, our main aim in this journey of making research and creating website is to raise awareness on the main issue dealing with such notions that I mentioned above and try to change them so that we can shape/change the future of ELT. 

As a final, I would like to share a picture from our training days, I really miss those days!

I feel really lucky to work with these amazing people:)