64 articles in this issue
Eihab Abu Rabiah
Since Ure (1971) and Halliday (1985), different measures have been proposed in the research literature as a proxy for investigating lexicon advance. They are called lexical richness measures and are an important tool in assessing advance of the lexicon (J... see more
Phillips Kofi Atsu Larnyo,Nathaniel Glover-Meni
This paper seeks to outline and describe the features of Ewe causative verbs and how they encode causative events. It explores the sub-lexical analysis of verbs' meanings since they form the basis of the classification of causal relations that allow us to... see more
Asli Aktan-Erciyes
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in the main verb and path in a non-ver... see more
Fatma Demiray Akbulut
Over the last few decades, it has become obligatory to publish academic research to survive in academic world. In academic writing skill, lexical bundles (LBs) usage is marked as a master ability to build well-organized paragraphs or essays and are essent... see more
Gülce Kalayci,Hatice Ergül
The role that parents’ involvement play in young learners’ English learning process has been investigated in various contexts from different perspectives. This study aims to explore English language teachers’ perceptions about the role of parental involve... see more
Semin Kazazoglu
In today’s world, educational contexts are getting increasingly multicultural. Although EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classes in Turkey were mostly composed of Turkish students a decade ago, today students from any part of the world are brought toge... see more
Fatma Özlem Saka
The curricula of all departments in the faculty of education have been designed by Higher Education Council unlike the curricula of other faculties in Turkish higher education. After the regulation in 2006, all faculties of education throughout Turkey car... see more
Onur Uludag
The study aims to investigate whether second language learners perform sentence processing based on syntactic or structure-based parsing strategies during real-time comprehension of constructions with syntactic ambiguities. To this end, the recordings of ... see more
Joseph B. A. Afful,Christopher Ankomah
Following Swales’ (1990) influential study on research article (RA) introductions, some attention has increasingly been paid to other rhetorical units of both expert and learners’ writing, including titles. A key and effective discursive means through whi... see more
Rezky Pratiwi Balman,Sangmok Lee
This paper examines email requests sent by Indonesian students to Japanese university professors using English as their lingua franca. It particularly analyzes how students modify their email requests using internal and external modifications as a way to ... see more
Nawal Fadhil Abbas
AbstractCooperation in conversation is usually managed by the turn- taking mechanism where the interlocutors’ turns are done according to certain rules the most important of... see more
Tuba Karagöz Dilek
The present study aimed to figure out whether Turkish EFL learners transfer their L1 Turkish pragmatic norms to their L2 English compliments and compliment responses. Six senior ELT students took part in the study, carried out at a state university in Tur... see more
Mehdi Solhi,Meryem Sak,Seyda Sahin,Selin Yilmaz
This study sought to evaluate the English language coursebooks used at the Turkish public elementary schools. In so doing, a series of coursebooks used in English courses of the curriculum prepared by the Turkish Ministry of National Education were evalua... see more
Fulya Topçuoglu Ünal,Serpil Uyar
The purpose of this research is to develop a new application to enhance the success and attitudes of the middle school students. The effect of the "Competing by Reading Activity”, which is designed for this purpose, on the reading comprehension success of... see more
Chomphu Isariyawat,Chaleomkiet Yenphech,Kampeeraphab Intanoo
This research was aimed to 1) investigate the attitudes of learners towards literature, and 2) discover the impact of literature and literary texts on cultural awareness and language skills in Thai EFL undergraduate students. A blend of qualitative and qu... see more
Emily Ayieta Ondondo
In a language, certain phenomena are sensitive to specific prosodic domains. In a model of morphology-syntax-phonology interaction in which morphological and syntactic structure projects phonological domains belonging to a set hierarchy, each phonological... see more
Selda Özer
The study aims to investigate foreign language learning effort levels of students in English for Specific Purposes. In the study, quantitative research and survey method were applied. 385 students studying at a faculty of tourism and taking vocational Eng... see more
Gülbin Daghan Aslan,Gülay Kiray
The present study aims to identify translanguaging strategies and question the effectiveness of these strategies in foreign language classrooms. To this aim, a 10th grade German class was observed during fall and spring semesters of 2017-2018 academic yea... see more
Mohd Fauzi Abdul Hamid,Zulazhan Ab. Halim,Muhammad Sabri Sahrir
Arabic grammar learning - which uses textbooks with lengthy details can be translated into creative and innovative forms through the application of technology advancement. Animated infographics is one of the many technological applications aimed to innova... see more
Basak Ercan
Providing language students with creative and effective language learning environments so that they can gain communicative competence is of great importance. Therefore, integration of technology into language learning has become much more valuable where t... see more
Hulusi Geçgel
This research aims to determine the smartphone addiction levels of Turkish pre-service teachers. In this study, a relational screening model, which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used. The study group consists of 178 pre-service teachers... see more
Elif Kemaloglu-Er,Hatice Ozata
Codeswitching is reported to be a common feature of group work in EFL classes, particularly those with learners sharing the same native language. On the other hand, there is little research on codeswitching in group work in EFL contexts. This study aims t... see more
Nurcihan Sönmez Genç
The goal of this study is to determine the willingness for participation and opinions of the high school students who learn German as a foreign language in the context of the student-centered activities carried out within the scope of a student-centered t... see more
Hayriye Avara,Bruno Mascitelli,Catherine Bryant
Within Australia, the State of Victoria has the greatest ethnic diversity and the largest number of second languages used at home. It also has the highest rates of students participating in language learning at school. It is also home to the country’s lar... see more
Isgandar Bababayli,Nalan Kiziltan
Different communities assess social distance, social power, rights and obligations, and degree of imposition used in specific speech acts differently. As a result of this difference, foreign language learners are likely to make sociopragmatic failure. Thi... see more
Yong Wu,Fonny Dameaty Hutagalung,Chew Peng Fong
Scholars have focused on code-switching problems for more than 50 years and have different voices about using code-switching in the EFL classroom. This study used mix method to explore the EFL teachers' and students’ attitudes towards using code-switching... see more
Thuy Thi Bich Nguyen
Reading plays a vital role in academic development, particularly when learners have to work over a huge amount of foreign language materials for their own specialist subjects (McDonough & Shaw, 2013). Strengthening English reading ability is necessary for... see more
Vedat Halitoglu
Many people from Turkey emigrated to European countries as a result of the bilateral agreements signed between Turkey and related countries after the 1950s. The temporary travels to these countries left their place to permanent settlements, and the Turkis... see more
Ilknur Kazaz,Nuray Alagözlü
The aim of this study is to develop a measurement tool that evaluates the teaching practicum to shed light on the expectations and attitudes of English teacher candidates in relation to teaching practicum. In this context, two meas... see more
Issra Pramoolsook,Ahmad Amin Dalimunte
The great importance of textbooks in the English language in the academic, pedagogic, and scientific world is uncontested. Acquiring holistic knowledge of legal transdisciplinary is of great importance to Islamic law students in Indonesia. Nevertheless, E... see more
Suhan Akinci Oktay
It is a well-known fact that advice-giving practices may differ from culture to culture. While some societies such as British culture refrain from giving advice, others such as Turkish may prefer to give advice perceiving it as an indication of solidarity... see more
Holi Ali,Qasim Salim Al Washahi,Awad Ahmed Alhassan
IELTS is used as a screening gatekeeper and plays a crucial role in Omani students to meet job requirements. This paper reports on Omani English-major undergraduate students’ reflections on their experience of the reading section of Academic IELTS. The ma... see more