Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies  

Eda Ercan Demirel,Pasa Tevfik Cephe

This study aims to investigate the burnout levels of English language instructors who are currently teaching at School of Foreign Languages, namely Konya Necmettin Erbakan University, Selçuk University and Gazi University, to look for the factors leading ... see more

Serife Demircioglu,Cemal Çakir

The study explores the opinions and attitudes of International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) English language teachers from Turkey, the USA, the UK, New Zealand and Spain on intercultural language teaching. 16 teachers from Turkey, 15 teachers fr... see more

Abdel Halim Sykes

Drawing on work that has attempted to describe and codify features of World Englishes, this study sought to address the question of whether certain established norms common to several varieties of English would be accepted by educated British users of Eng... see more

Fehmi Turgut,Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu

This study investigates the effect of using rubrics as an instructional tool on students’ writing performance in English as a foreign language. The major goal was to liberate the students from the narrow perception of writing based solely on the notion of... see more

Mehmet Asmali,Ufuk Bilki,Carina Adriana Duban

The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 1... see more

Hüseyin Öz,Emine Efecioglu

This article reports the findings of a study that investigated the role of graphic novels in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to International Baccalaureate students (aged 15-16) in TED Ankara College Foundation Private High School. Two intact... see more

Ismail Hakki Erten,Nesrin Bayraktar Erten

This study sought to understand how students in Turkish grammar classes at three state high schools in Turkey perceive their teachers and the classroom interaction. A total of 142 students were asked to form metaphorical expressions to describe their teac... see more

Mehmet Kanik

This paper investigates the uses of the aorist and the progressive tenses in spoken Turkish and the extent to which they are used interchangeably. Demo version of Spoken Turkish Corpus was analyzed using EXMARaLDA software. The tokens were divided into th... see more

Javad Gholami,Mitra Gholizadeh

Language play and its effects on second language learning have been addressed by many scholars in recent years with instances of language play being identified both inside and outside the classroom. However, only a few have integrated language play with c... see more

Hüseyin Öz

Reviewer Acknowledgements for Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2015