10 articles in this issue
Arif Sariçoban
Teachers or educators, most of the time, concentrate on the theoretical aspects of language teaching and study them as much as possible. However, in practice, we start thinking that we will have to keep a number of people together in the same place. These... see more
Bengü Aksu
In this age of mass media, we are surrounded with images that promote certain gender roles. These hidden forces shape us and our world view, often without us being aware that they are doing so. Gender stereotypes occur when generic attributes, opinions or... see more
Cengiz Tosun
As is known Turkish Language belongs to Altaic Language family, and it is defined as agglutinative typologically. Accordingly it is also known as an SOV language. Having been acknowledged such a fact, a linguist or a teacher can easily get benefit out of ... see more
Ismet Sahin
Teachers are considered to be one of the most crucial elements affecting the success of students learning a foreign language in non-English speaking countries. Native speakers of English were recruited as language teachers all over the non-English speakin... see more
Mehmet Demirezen
In the field of teacher training, there is a scarcity of teaching pronunciation teaching methodology to cure the fossilized mistakes of teacher trainees and foreign language teachers on-the-job. A case study pertaining to this situation is handled for the... see more
Murat Hismanoglu
This paper aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for u... see more
Nuray Alagözlü
This article aims at a stylistic analysis of the short story “Keske” by Yilmaz Erdogan at discourse level. Discourse stylistics can be defined as a transition between grammar and discourse. It fosuses on discourse linguistics... see more
Sefa Yüce
With the beginning of globalization, countries have become interdependent politically, economically, and for military reasons. Rapid changes and developments in the world have made multilingualism more important, and countries, now, have more chance to kn... see more
Tahsin Aktas
Bu arastirmada iletisim kuraminin yabanci dil ögretimi için öngördügü iletisimsel yeti kavrami bilimsel literatürün isiginda tartisildi. Bu baglamda temel dil becerileri ve bu becerilerin gelistirilmesi sorunu ayrintili olarak incelendi. Ayrica iletisimse... see more
Yasemin Kirkgöz
Many Turkish universities provide undergraduate degree courses through the medium of English. Despite a growing popularity of English medium universities, very little actual information is available about what attracts students to an English-medium educat... see more