3 research outputs found
Snakey love
Snakey Love is a four-minute long animated graduate thesis film. The short features a female snake who pursuits her love for everyone that seems to be a snake shape, but she always fails because they are all not interested in a creature that is not their same species. However she finds her lover at in end by accident (Because there really was an accident). This short film is a 3D (three-dimensional) computer animation, which means that the final vision appears on the screen was generated by using computer 3D software. It is all done by a series of different processes like modeling, shading, rigging, lighting, rendering, etc. This paper analyzes and delineates the entire process of making this film from five different main stages. They are ideas, pre-production, production, post-production, and final conclusion and experiences
The background factors that influence learners' English proficiency
Ankara : The Program of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Bilkent University, 2011.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2011.Includes bibliographical references leaves 59-63.This study was conducted to explore the relationship between language
achievement and starting age of learning English as a foreign language, type of high
school, languages known by the learners and spoken in their home environment and
learners’ attitudes towards language learning, and also to clarify other possible
factors affecting language achievement. The participants of the study were the
students of Medicine, Engineering and Law Faculties at Dicle University. To explore
the effects of the mentioned factors on language achievement, a questionnaire was
completed by 105 participants and the data to clarify the other possible factors
affecting language achievement were obtained through interviews with twelve of the
participants. The data derived from the questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS and
the data obtained from the interviews were analyzed in a qualitative way.
The findings obtained from the quantitative analysis present the following
results. The results showed that starting to learn English as a foreign language at an early age does not have many advantages on learning. Type of high school is very
important for English proficiency, because the students of Anatolian/Science High
School have much higher proficiency in English. Knowing more than one language
and being in a family environment where more than one language is spoken do not
have a significant effect on English proficiency. There is not a correlation between
attitudes towards language learning and language proficiency.
As the results of qualitative analysis, it was seen that practicing what is learnt
in the classroom and having a connection with the foreign language out of the
classroom (listening to English songs, watching English movies) are very important
to gain a high proficiency in language. On the other hand, grammar-based
instruction, experiencing the same teaching styles during the whole learning process,
lack of environment to practice foreign language and a high anxiety level cause
problems in the learning process.Güneş, SevimM.S