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Volume 3 Number 1 Year 2007

14 articles in this issue 

Antoanela Marta Dumitrascu

The paper starts from the idea that the meaning of words in such patterns of Idiomacity is different from their individual meanings. They are at least delexicalized. This is the necessary correlate of co-selection. The selections are not independent, one ... see more

 

Bugra Zengin,Ali Riza Dogan,Suna Akalin

This study explores whether semantically elaborated keywords facilitates learning of Latin roots. The freshmen of a medical school were the treatment group provided with the translation equivalents of the target roots supplemented with keywords. The contr... see more

 

Elena Croitoru

The meanings of words depend on the way they pattern into pharses and sentences and how they are used in situational contexts, the development of a theory of meaning being the central programme of ’corpus semantics’. The meaning relations between the term... see more

 

Elif Leyla Toprak,Eyyup Serkan Öncel

Proponents of language studies have shown that “Reading” has been a receptive skill in the written mode affecting the developments of the other skills such as oral receptive skill listening along with oral productive speaking skill as well as written prod... see more

 

Ismail Erton

The purpose of this paper is to show how a course in language teaching should be designed to help learners develop their pragmatic competence by making use of four language skills in a communicative way. Listening, writing and reading do not occur in isol... see more

 

Ismail Firat Altay

This paper focuses on the issues of run-on and stringy sentences.  They are thought to be significant ill formed structures formed by writers of English language.  Initially, they are defined with examples.  Later, various correct forms are... see more

 

Mehmet Demirezen

The [æ], called “ash” and  [ ? ], called “schwa” are very frequent phonemes in English language that confuse the Turkish teachers of English. The main reason for this confusion is that both of them do not exist in modern standard Turkish. Another rea... see more

 

Murat Hismanoglu

The acquisition of [ ?: ] and [ o? ] vowel sounds of the English language constitutes a serious problem for Turkish learners of English. There are no pedagogically-developed specific materials or sample lesson plans in the literature to remedy the pronunc... see more

 

Müfit Senel

This study investigates the relation of the Foreign Language Teaching with the Semiotic Approach that gains more importance recently and tries to explain how this concept has been used as Semiotic Approach in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning and tea... see more

 

Nalân Kiziltan,Ceylan Yangin Ersanli

This study aims at discussing the contributions of Content–based Instruction (CBI) to young learners’ language development in English. Among the three models of CBI, theme-based model has been used in the study, since sheltered and adjunct models are not ... see more

 

Ömer Sekerci

Etymology is a branch of linguistics describing the origin of words, their change and development. To-day the far reaching advances in linguistics and in ELT and EFL oblige us, teachers of English to know well not only the language itself but about the la... see more

 

Sibel Ariogul

Teachers’ practical knowledge is considered as teachers’ general knowledge, beliefs and thinking (Borg, 2003) which can be traced in teachers’ practices (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988) and shaped by various background sources (Borg, 2003; Grossman, 1990; Mei... see more

 

Suna Akalin,Bugra Zengin

Bu çalismada Türkiye’de yasayan insanlarin yabanci dil ile tutumlari arastirilmistir. Anketlerin cevaplanmasinda önemli etken, Türkiye’nin her bölgesinde çesitli yaslardan bayan ve baylara ulasabilmek için farkli illerden Atatürk Üniversitesi Ingilizce ög... see more

 

Filiz Yalçin Tilfarlioglu,Ali Riza Öztürk

It can be said that foreign language teaching/learning has been failure in Turkey for many years although nearly everyone believes that speaking at least one foreign language is essential today. Considering Turkey as a developing country in many aspects; ... see more