12 articles in this issue
Selma Karabinar
Complex and multifaceted nature of writing has led the study of writing to fall into wider frameworks of analysis. "The approaches to writing framework" (Biggs, 1988; Lavelle, 1993) presents a different perspective based on the notion that strategie... see more
Ceyhun Yukselir,Leyla Harputlu
This present study is an investigation into EFL prep-class students’ academic emotions in learning and taking a test with reference to departments and gender. Academic emotions emerge when the student evaluates achievement related-situations such as study... see more
Elçin Ölmezer Öztürk,Selami Ok
Motivation is regarded as one of the most important factors in language learning process and teachers try a lot to motivate their students in language classes. There have been a number of studies in the field of education to prove that teachers play impor... see more
Behzad Nazari,Saeed Mansouri
This study extends traditional or static assessment of reading comprehension in foreign language contexts and applies dynamic assessment (DA) to the development of learners’ reading ability. To homogenize the research population (N= 250), an Oxford Placem... see more
Shahzad Karim,Naushaba Haq
This study is concerned with the evaluation of two English language teaching (ELT) textbooks from the point of view of hidden curriculum i.e. the invisible or implicit ideological assumptions hidden in the content of these textbooks and the culture of lan... see more
Mehmet Sercan Uztosun,Ismail Hakki Erten
The present study investigated communication strategies employed by Turkish EFL learners and aimed at revealing the relationship between language proficiency and the use of communication strategies. An interaction-based methodology was used in which 17 pa... see more
Nathan J. Devos
This article presents a framework for implementing classroom observations in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher education. It is an effort to provide a comprehensive six step framework that aids EFL student-teachers (ST) in carrying out classroom... see more
Marzieh Nezakat-Alhossaini,Manijeh Youhanaee,Ahmad Moinzadeh
The present study sought to investigate the effect of explicit instruction (direct proactive explicit instruction) on the acquisition of English passive objective relative clauses. Two groups of participants were involved in the study; a group of advanced... see more
Boudjemaa Dendenne
The present study attempts to investigate the pragmatic transfer in interlanguage requests performed by Algerian EFL learners. For data gathering, a three-item Discourse Completion Task has been administered to two controlling groups of native speakers: A... see more
Seyyed hatam Tamimi Sa'd,Mohammad Mohammadi
The current study investigated the extent to which Iranian EFL learners are sociolinguistically competent in performing the speech act of refusal. The data were elicited form a sample of 30 Iranian EFL learners, 15 males and 15 females, who responded to s... see more
Asli Özlem Tarakçioglu,Hatice Kübra Tunçarslan
In recent decades, teaching and learning English has gained importance not only for adults but also even for very young children. Therefore, games, songs, art-craft activities and short stories have proved to be practical instruments for very young learne... see more
Oktay Akarsu,Tevfik Dariyemez
The aim of this study is to explore the current reading habits and attitudes of university students studying English Language and Literature at Atatürk University. Moreover, it aims to determine the changes in reading patterns due to the widespread ... see more