10 articles in this issue
Turan Paker,Ali Erarslan
This study aims to explore the attitudes of Turkish EFL students towards the writing course at university and to investigate the relationship between students’ attitudes and their overall proficiency in writing. The participants were 782 students from var... see more
Zeynep Erk Emeksiz
This study aims at describing the functions of passive voice and how authors reflect their stance through those functions in Turkish academic discourse. Depending on the findings of a corpus based research, this study makes a counterpoint to functionalist... see more
Yasemin Yelbay Yilmaz
This study aimed at devising a vocabulary learning software that would help learners learn and retain vocabulary items effectively. Foundation linguistics and learning theories have been adapted to the foreign language vocabulary learning context using a ... see more
Majid Farahian
Research on metacognition in English as a foreign language (EFL) writing is heavily dependent on a valid measure to assess metacognitive ability. Since there is no report of a validated domain -specific measure of metacognitive awareness of foreign langua... see more
Tutku Basöz
Learning a new language is akin to exploring an unknown land as ambiguous situations are prevalent in language learning. Ambiguity tolerance, which can hinder or facilitate language learning, is considered as an important learning style. The purpose of th... see more
Emel Akay,Çetin Toraman
Learning a language means not only studying four skills of proficiency, but also understanding the system of rules underlying. In this respect, learners’ attitudes towards grammar are also of vital importance. The main objective of this descriptive study ... see more
Esim Gürsoy,Sule Çelik Korkmaz
This action research aims to identify the teacher trainees’ attributions for their failure, their locus of control and their achievement goals as a result of high failure rate in “Teaching English to Young Learners” course at a large state university in T... see more
Violeta Janusheva,Jana Jurukovska
The paper analyses the conceptual formulation of neologisms in various dictionaries of Macedonian language, other Slavic and non-Slavic languages, as well as in primary school Macedonian language textbooks, by putting special emphasis on the role of, both... see more
Hsueh-chao Marcella Hu
The concept of semantic prosody has attracted considerable research interests in the past two decades since Sinclair (1990) observed that “many uses of words and phrases show a tendency to occur in a certain semantic environment” (p. 112). Sinclair (2003)... see more
Hüseyin Öz
Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2015