16 articles in this issue
Gökhan Öztürk,Nurdan Gürbüz
This study investigated the level, major causes, determining factors of foreign language speaking anxiety and students’ perceptions of it in a Turkish EFL context. Pre-intermediate students (N=383) of an English preparatory program at a state university p... see more
Muhammad Javed,Atezaz Ahmad
The present study is an investigation of ESL secondary school students’ pronunciation. A sample of 440 ESL students of grade 10 was randomly selected from the Southern Punjab, Pakistan. A test was developed to assess the ESL students’ pronunciation. The t... see more
Secil Horasan
This study aimed to investigate the amount of code-switching in terms of sentential levels and initiation patterns, the discourse functions of code-switching, and the perceptions of the switchers. Accordingly, 43 students at the elementary level and four ... see more
Soner Aksehirli
Belirtisizlik, ikili dilsel karsitliklarda karsitligin terimlerinden birinin bu iliskinin tümünü adlandiracak biçimde kullanilmasidir. Anlam düzleminde ise belirtisizlik, ikili karsitlik iliskisi içinde bulunan terimlerden birinin anlam bakimindan yansizl... see more
Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge,Halis Gözpinar
The paper explores semantic models of proverbs which denote the status of children in the family as well as issues connected to the process of child-raising in Turkish and Georgian languages and cultures. The data relevant to the study were identified, co... see more
Pasa Tevfik Cephe,Elif Tugba Toprak
The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (Council of Europe, 2001) which aims to bring about harmonisation and transparency within Europe and promote the idea of European citizenship is a project that provid... see more
Yusuf Dogan
Son yillarda hem yurt içinde hem de yurt disinda Türkçe ögrenmek isteyen yabancilarin sayisi artmaktadir. Bu durum söz konusu alandaki çalismalarin da çogalmasini saglamistir. Dil ögretiminde üzerinde durulan konularin basinda “kelime ögretimi” gelmektedi... see more
Ismail Çakir,Birtan Baytar
Pronunciation is one of the controversial topics in the field of English language teaching as a second or foreign language. The aim of this study is to understand the attitudes of prep class students at Kastamonu University (state university) in Turkey to... see more
Anna Wing Bo Tso
Tertiary English Language teachers often tend to focus on teaching vocational English skills, improving students’ grammatical structure, vocabulary and other standard forms of linguistic expression. Unabridged and authentic literary texts are seldom intro... see more
Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d,Mohammad Mohammadi
Successful communication is the joint product of linguistic as well the sociolinguistic competence, with the latter competence denoting appropriateness which is closely associated with politeness. The present study aimed to investigate the politeness stra... see more
Daniel Ghamarian,Khalil Motallebzadeh,Mohammad Ali Fatemi
This study aims to investigate the relationship between the washback effect of IELTS test and Iranian IELTS candidates’ life skills pattern as well as investigating the relationship between constructs underlying IELTS test and Iranian IELTS candidates’ co... see more
Hisham Adam
The present study was aimed to present an acoustic analysis of Palestinian prosody based on data obtained from four Palestinian speaking- persons with Broca’s aphasia and normal speakers. A number of acoustic measures were examined in this study including... see more
Aytac Celtek
Bu çalisma Türkçe ile Yunanca arasindaki dil deginiminin Rodos Türkçesi (RT) üzerindeki dilbilgisel etkilerini incelemektedir. RT üzerine yapilan önceki çalismalarda (Georgalidou ve dig. 2011; Kaili ve dig. 2009) adada konusulan Türkçede (RT), Yunanca ile... see more
Nesrin Bayraktar
Bu çalisma, renk adlarini çesitli yönlerden ele alan bir dizi çalismanin bir bölümüdür. Burada, yesil ve onun bilinen ilk biçimi olan yasil ele alinmistir. Renk adinin kökeni hakkinda bir incelemenin ardindan renk adinin yer aldigi tarihî eserlere örnekle... see more
Aysel Sahin Kizil,Abdurrahman Kilimci
Various studies contrasting learner language with native speaker (NS) performance have shown that recurrent multiword expressions that come so naturally to the NSs pose difficulty for the non-native (NNS) speakers and hinder their language productio... see more
Mansoor Tavakoli,Marzieh Nezakat-Alhossaini
The present study tried to investigate the effectiveness of the implementation of corrective feedback in the light of Dynamic Assessment (DA) techniques which are rooted in ZPD on Foreign language learners’ learning of reported speech structures. Two fram... see more