Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies  

Arzu Koçak

This research study investigated Turkish Tertiary Level EFL learners’ recognition level of relative clauses. The study also examined the difficulty level of types of relative clause constructions for Turkish EFL learners and the effect of instruction on t... see more

Muneera Mohammad Jaradat

Abstract     The study aims to investigate guttural and emphatic sounds and the phenomenon of emphasis spread in Fallaahi Jordanian Arabic (FJA), a rural Jordanian dialect spoken in the north of Jordan. The study uses a non-linear appr... see more

Phanintra Teeranon

This research analyzes the acoustic characteristics and conducts a perception test of Thai tones produced by Chinese learners learning Thai through the “Thai Tone Application”.  A comparison of Thai tones pronounced by the pa... see more

Derya Bakirci,Ali Sükrü Özbay

Gratitude strategies used by EFL speakers have always been the focus of interest by researchers who observed the presence of pragmatic transfer strategies by which speakers express their gratitude. We have seen that several adapted versions of Discourse C... see more

Seda Tas Ilmek

Known as the master of horror with more than sixty novels, Stephen King’s works have been translated into Turkish since 1970’s and published mainly by Altin Kitaplar Publishing House. His works, frequently being among the best-sellers, have been retransla... see more

Lindita Tahiri,Nuran Muhaxheri

This study discusses the role of stylistic analysis in the development of ‘critical language awareness’ (CLA) which according to Fairclough (2010) is crucial for assessing ideologies transmitted in discourse. The Critical Stylistic approach is used to com... see more

Yavuz Selim Bayburtlu

This study was conducted to determine the vocabulary coefficients of the themes in 7 Turkish textbooks taught during the 2019-2020 academic year.  The study of the vocabulary coefficients of the themes is a method specific to the claim of the researc... see more

Omran Ahmad Musleh,Mohamed Abdelrahman Ibrahim,Abdel Rahman M. Altakhaineh

This study aims to investigate the attitudes of non-Arabic students towards reading short stories in Arabic at universities in Malaysia, with a focus on three variables: the students’ university, gender, and mother tongue. A mixed-methods approach was emp... see more

Evalyn Bonquin Abiog,Rowena B. David

More than words are stories to be told. Stories tell a lot about people’s thoughts, experiences, and practices which in turn speak about people’s language, identity, and cultural heritage. The present study deals with the documentation and analysis of Mag... see more

Safia Bensaad,Ghania Ouahmiche

Promoting students’ knowledge of the reading process as well as their metacognitive awareness of reading strategies has become a crucial issue of ESP teaching and undoubtedly an obligatory subject in higher education. Relevant to this, the present paper t... see more

Farzaneh Khakzad Esfahlan,Mohsen Boroumand

Politeness strategies that speakers deploy when performing a speech act have been seen to be influenced by several factors among which gender and socioeconomic status are two prominent ones. The current study was an attempt to examine the relationship bet... see more

Ahmet Erdost Yastibas

The new geological epoch called the Anthropocene has shown how human activities have influenced the world negatively and revealed the threat created by ongoing human activities to the sustainability of the future of the world. Therefore, what the Anthropo... see more

Parisa Yeganehpour,Elham Zarfsaz

Students need to be skilled writers to get involved in a literate society. Providing learners with effective and appropriate teaching approach can lead to an easier and better mastery of skills. One of these approaches may be co-teaching. This study inves... see more

Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary

This study aims at problematizing President Trump’s argumentation in response to the protesters’ demands for justice, racial equality and police reforms over the killing of George Floyd. In his first reaction, Trump used mild rhetoric that frustrated and ... see more

Salih Kürsad Dolunay,Hüseyin Karabuga

Gerunds and gerundial formations are inflectional, finite and non-finite, impersonalized, and aspect-free structures that derive from verbs and can be used for different tasks in the sentence; they act as a verb when they form a clause and as a conjunctio... see more

Riza Alifianti Putri,Ni Wayan Sartini,Muchamad Sholakhuddin Al Fajri

This study discusses speech acts performed by judges of model competitions in America and Asia TV series America’s Next Top Model and Asia’s Next Top Model. The aim of this study is to find out the illocutionary acts since judges are considered as the cen... see more

Noraini Zulkepli

Empirical studies have long proven the link between speaking and second language learning. Despite its importance in determining one’s success to master the target language, willingness to communicate is not always high even among motivated and advanced E... see more

Ismail Erton

Translation, as a multidisciplinary scientific field, receives a lot of attention from sociology, psychology, computer sciences, information technologies and from linguistics, from which it originates. With the advances in technology in the 21st century, ... see more

Aydan Irgatoglu,Gulsev Pakkan

The aim of this study is to investigate the 21st century skills of the third and fourth year students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature of two Turkish state universities. Additionally, the levels of the 21st century skills of t... see more

Ceren Yentürk,Gülin Dagdeviren Kirmizi

The purpose of this study is to investigate foreign speaking anxiety in the Non-Native and Native Instructors’ classroom. To this end, Horwitz, Horwitz & Cope’s (1986) Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) was administered to 469 EFL learners s... see more

Asli Yaren Yüzgeç,Selim Soner Sütçü

Language teachers have been expected to be professional language users and analyse the foreign culture. While doing so, they need to have some skills that will help them think professionally and use their thoughts in professional environments. Two of thes... see more

Arif Sariçoban,Özkan Kirmizi

Learning is as much an emotional process as a cognitive one. There is no doubt that human beings are emotional beings, which, to a large extent, determines their cognitive and social relations with their environments. Teachers are no exceptions as they ca... see more

Awadh Awadh,Ansarullah Shafiullah Khan

This study aims at investigating the challenges that Yemeni translation students encounter when translating neologisms from English into Arabic. It also aims at comparing students' translation with outcomes of machine translation (MT). The authors follow ... see more

Bader Yousef Alharbi,Mohammad Aljutaily

Research on native Arabic speakers’ perception of non-native English phonemic contrasts has manifested various conclusions. Some studies have revealed that native Arabic speakers experience difficulty in the perception of non-native English phonemic contr... see more

Nur Gedik Bal

As teachers primarily rely on textbooks in the teaching of foreign languages, one way of helping and encouraging them to focus on intercultural competence (IC) is to provide them with the textbooks that facilitate intercultural language learning process. ... see more

Infanta Vincy Rajendran

This research study emphasized on the importance of explicit instruction and repeated exposure to the target vocabulary for effective reception and production of new words among the second language learners of English. The purpose of the study was to exam... see more

Aied M. Alenizi

This qualitative study aims at exploring the internal structure of personal experience oral narrative in Arabic in terms of Woodbury (1987) rhetorical components and Labov (1972) approach of narrative structure, who claimed its presence in all well-formed... see more

Zahra Ashofteh,Majid Elahi Shirvan,Seyed Ehsan Golparvar

To communicate with other experts in a specific field as well as sharing knowledge in the academic world, researchers might need to publish their research articles (RAs) in high-impact factor journals. In addition, to increase the possibility of publishin... see more

Özge Bakay,F. Özlem Saka

The English language-oriented course (ELOC) corresponds to the 11th and 12th grades of high school and are highly preferred by students. Yet, the implementation of ELOC’s curriculum is an issue that is hardly focused on in the field. Although the curricul... see more

Holi Ali

This study is based on a large scale study conducted by the researcher in 2018.  The findings reported in this study were obtained from the analysis of interviews and some institutional documents analysis. Engineering students’ and their EAP and engi... see more

Eman Awni Ali,Radwan Salim Mahadin

This study aims to analyze the derivation of weak active participles (APs) from triconsonantal imperfective verbs within the X-slot model of autosegmental phonology. The first stage in the research involves building a corpus of APs from a well-established... see more

Mete Yusuf Ustabulut,Savas Keskin

This study tries to map educational processes that have to transform into the extraordinary history of the COVID-19 pandemic and adapt to the ‘new normal’, with a relational and metaphoric approach. In the study, the existing physical and mental condition... see more