76 articles in this issue
Göktug Börtlü
The study shows that there are two distinct lateral phonemes in Turkish with a minimal pair example. 20 male native speakers of Turkish, aged 20-26, were asked to read six short phrases and a minimal pair which contained laterals. The spectrograms were ex... see more
Esmira Mehdiyev
The purpose of this study is to reveal the opinions of the Sivas Cumhuriyet University students, majoring at English Language Teaching Department in the 2017-2018 academic year, about the autonomous learning process to acquire English speaking proficiency... see more
Nikolaos Panopoulos,Maria Drossinou - Korea
The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of teaching interventions in accordance with Bronfenbrener's Ecosystem Theory. The research questions address, how reading skills are taught in the microsystem of school through a Targeted, Individual, ... see more
Ismail Hakki Mirici
Learning the language of the host country plays a significant role in the social life of migrants regardless of their age, gender or cultural background since it is the key to their integration into different dimensions of the social life from the labour ... see more
Nejla Gezmis
The purpose of this study is to identify in which stage/stages of Process Writing Approach students have difficulties most. This posttest-experimental study was applied to the 50 first-year students studying Translation and Interpretation of English at Ki... see more
Fawzi Al Ghazali
The unprecedented progress in digital appliances nowadays resulted in increasing people’s reliance on the use of technology, which facilitated construction of knowledge including the acquisition of languages (Thorne, 2010). Formal education has developed ... see more
Fatma Yuvayapan,Hayriye Bilginer
Academic writing practices constitute central processes through which students learn the conventions of their disciplines to meet the expectations of their academic communities. Therefore, academic writing courses should touch on the specific dimensions o... see more
Funda Uzdu Yildiz,Betül Çetin
The present study systematically reviewed research that was conducted to analyze the errors within the written expressions of individuals learning Turkish as a foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of 16 articles that were identified through... see more
Okan Önalan,Gökçe Kurt
When technology is integrated into instruction in conjunction with effective teaching practices, it can enrich and enhance teaching and learning processes. With the changes in the nature of education wrought by advances in technology, teachers’ key role i... see more
Muberra Seydi
Existential negation is the one type of negation present in languages, which its item is called “negative existential”, and it provides to tell the case of “absence”, “lack”, “there is not”, “poor”, “empty”, “dead” etc. Negative existentials are gen... see more
Arif Sariçoban,Özkan Kirmizi
The present study was undertaken through a qualitative research model in order to examine which sub-categories of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) emerged during the practicum process of four novice English teachers enrolled in a teaching certificate (... see more
Yusuf Sülükçü,Ayse Kirboga
The present study was conducted to determine the level of college students in punctuation marks and to recommend solutions for this problem. The study was conducted with the quantitative method, and content and description analysis techniques were utilize... see more
Aytac Celtek
In Turkish, null and overt arguments do not show the same distributional properties at discourse level. There are discourse-pragmatic factors affecting this distribution (Kerslake, 1987; Ruhi, 1996; Turan, 1995; Çeltek & Oktar, 2014; Çeltek Kaili, 2017). ... see more
Gökçen Hastürkoglu
Translation has been considered as a cross-cultural act comprising the transference of the cultural signs, rather than only finding the equivalence of linguistic patterns in the target text. As bridge-builders between different cultures, translators assum... see more
Stefan Rathert,Nese Cabaroglu
Acknowledging the increased appreciation of the learner’s L1 for L2 learning, this study reports on a criteria-based implementation of bilingual activities in a course of 26 young adult EFL learners at a Turkish university. To investigate potential effect... see more
Yeliz Yilmaz Korkmaz,Nalan Babür,Belma Haznedar
The present study explored reading and spelling development of Turkish- speaking children in Grade 1 and 2. It was designed to investigate the predictors of word spelling and reading skills and the developmental relationship between spelling and reading a... see more
Abdullah Arslan
This study aimed at discussing the advantages and challenges of flipped learning in teaching English as a foreign or second language in terms of some variables through a systematic review. Through systematic review, 78 studies published in journals that w... see more
Bekir Kayabasi
The aim of this study is to develop a scale of pre-service teacher beliefs about Ottoman Turkish. The 34-item “The Scale of Teacher Candidate Beliefs about Ottoman Turkish,” created for the piloting was given to 202 pre-service teachers who were taking an... see more
Recep Gür,Baris Eriçok
The problem of this study is to find out how the academic success scores of the graded foreign language courses such as Foreign Language I, II, III, IV, V, and VI have a relationship among them and to what extent these courses are actually prerequisite to... see more
Valentyna Marchenko
In the present research we look into the mechanisms which facilitate integrated functioning of speech and music components within a song. To understand the underlying mechanisms of such interaction we investigate poems set to music, analyzing the componen... see more
Asli Maden
The present study aimed to compare the attitudes of middle school students towards printed and digital dictionary use. The study was conducted with the survey model since it aimed to determine a present situation. The study population included the student... see more
Sezin Öner,Berivan Ece,Sami Gülgöz
We developed and validated the Family Reminiscence Scale (FARS) in which adults rate their frequency of reminiscing with their parents about childhood experiences. In three studies, we characterized how FARS was related to adults’ recollections of their e... see more
Muhammet Yasar Yüzlü,Derin Atay
The current study examines the impact of L1 use on EFL learners’ L2 speaking skills as well as their perceptions of L1 use in fostering oral production in L2. The study was conducted for 10 weeks with 60 low intermediate and the high intermediate students... see more
Bahar Isiguzel
The investigation of feelings, attitudes, and perceptions with regard to learning a foreign language takes an essential place for learning quality and success. In addition to traditional methods of learning a foreign language, the tendency towards more in... see more
Merve Öksüz Zerey,Pasa Tevfik Cephe
Theories of second/foreign language (L2) learning attach great significance to meaningful communication both inside and outside the language classrooms. In this respect, it is vital that language learners use the target language. However, they substantial... see more
Watcharapol Wiboolyasarin,Kanokpan Wiboolyasarin,Nattawut Jinowat
The goal of this research was to investigate the existence of perceptions and preferences among East Asian undergraduate students of Thai. To fill this gap, ninety-nine learners having experience of studying Thai speaking courses at five universities comp... see more
Efecan Karagöl
Turkish and Foreign Languages Research and Application Center (TÖMER) is one of the important institutions for learning Turkish as a foreign language. In these institutions, proficiency tests are applied at the end of each level. However, test application... see more
Faruk Kural
This study investigates the long term contribution of intercultural competence development training for global communication and adjustment given to Turkish study-abroad students prior to their sojourns to English L1 countries indicating their views on ho... see more
Izzet Seref,Behice Varisoglu
Language awareness is the totality of conscious efforts to know and practice the language. As to the metalinguistic awareness, it refers to the discovery of the social, cultural, historical and ideological aspects of language as a whole, as well as knowle... see more
Keziban Teksan,Üzeyir Sügümlü,Enes Çinpolat
ABSTRACT The aim of the study is to determine the readability levels of Turkish tales and the clarity for middle-school students. The study was conducted with a survey model. The study material consists of three tales each chosen from Az Gittik Uz Gi... see more
Zeynep Cin Seker
In this study, it was aimed to determine the attitudes of Turkish teacher candidates towards discussion skills according to variables of gender, grade level, high school graduated and number of books read in a month. The research sample was determined wit... see more
Kadriye Aytaç Demirçivi
The present study investigates the usage of speech like expressions in written works of Turkish learners of English. It also aims to find out the differences between advanced and intermediate level learners in terms of the frequency and types of speech li... see more
Gulden Ilin
This documentary study analyses the levels of reflection in the reflective journals written by 59 ELT student teachers from a Turkish university upon their experiences at practice schools. During the practicum, each student teacher wrote four reflective j... see more
Filiz Çetintas Yildirim
This current research tries to compare and contrast the language attitudes of Arabic-Turkish bilinguals from Mersin and Hatay cities located in the East Mediterranean Region of Anatolia. The quantitative results of the language attitude surveys conducted ... see more
Hameed Yahya Al-Zubeiry
Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore the violation of Grice’s maxims in the Arabic comedy Madraset Al-Mushaghbeen and explain how the violation of the maxims brings about humorous effects in the play. The data was collected by downloading the conc... see more
Belaid Louiza,Hanane Sarnou
Gender imbalance persists in developing countries in different fields. Education is one of the spaces in which gender imbalance continues to exist in Algeria, in terms of enrolment or achievement. This imbalance will unintentionally raise the issue of dif... see more
Onur Koksal
The purpose of the present research is investigating cultural competence development processes of students studying at Selcuk University Department of English Translation and Interpretation. Data of the research were collected with English Translation and... see more
Othman Saleh Mohammed,Suhel Samad Shaikh,Hassan Saleh Mahdi
The translation industry has witnessed rapid technological improvements in recent years. This rapid improvement is ascribed to a huge demand for the workload. Using a computer in the field of translation is very important due to the huge demand for fast a... see more