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Volume 15 Number 2 Year 2019

22 articles in this issue 

Mohammad Reza Ghorbani

The correct location of lexical stress is a main concern for EFL learners whose first language has a different stress system. Therefore, in light of the fact that English pronunciation errors are often caused by the transfer of the Persian language sound ... see more

Pags. 400 - 410  

Mehvish Riaz

English being an international language has left its impact on all the languages being spoken in the world. This impact has led to a world-wide language variation on a large scale. This variation can be evidently observed in the form of code-mixing and co... see more

Pags. 411 - 419  

Ibrahim Halil Topal

Adopting an action-oriented approach, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (henceforth CEFR) (Council of Europe, 2001) can be considered as a general framework for language learning, teaching, and assessment across Europe.  With its d... see more

Pags. 420 - 436  

Özkan Kirmizi,Funda Kömeç

The aim of the present study was to measure the effectiveness of flipped instruction on vocabulary learning in terms of both receptive vocabulary and productive vocabulary. To do this, a post-test experimental research design was implemented. The experime... see more

Pags. 437 - 449  

Seden Eraldemir Tuyan,Ergün Serindag

The aim of this study is to analyze and determine the various socio-psychological orientations of undergraduate students in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to have a comprehensive overview.  The study was originally intended by the schoo... see more

Pags. 450 - 469  

Hülya Sönmez

 The aim of this study is to examine how critically and creatively the students express their feelings and thoughts by using emoticons. In the first part, how the students expressed what they read by using emoticons was examined. In order to assess t... see more

Pags. 470 - 483  

Dinçay Köksal,Ömer Gökhan Ulum

It is clearly observed that EFL teachers’ language proficiency has been great concern for researchers in recent decades. However, there seems to be few studies conducted in Turkey to conceive EFL teachers’ language proficiency level. Language proficiency ... see more

Pags. 484 - 495  

Zehra Köroglu

This study has been conducted to evaluate the transition marker (TM) types in the MA theses written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and the Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the most salient transition types in the intro... see more

Pags. 496 - 507  

Manjola Lubishtani

 AbstractThe main purpose of this paper is the functional analysis and argumentation of text connectors as tools for implementation of the textual connectivity not only in the local but also global context. Given the comparative nature of this paper,... see more

Pags. 508 - 519  

Betül Bal-Gezegin

This study is a corpus-based investigation of the frequency, structure, and functions of lexical bundles found in research articles written in English by Turkish scholars. For the purpose of the study, one-million-word corpus of research articles publishe... see more

Pags. 520 - 534  

Atiye Adak Özdemir,Filiz Hidir,Burcu Özdemir Beceren

The present study aims to examine the use of picture storybooks in preschool classes. Case Study, a qualitative research method was employed as the research method. The data were collected through video recording, semi-structured interviews, and documents... see more

Pags. 535 - 559  

Selda OZER

The aim of the study is to analyze attitude, motivation and anxiety levels of students at a state university studying at faculty of tourism towards vocational English course. In the study, quantitative research and survey method were used. 325 students pa... see more

Pags. 560 - 577  

Jose Luis Estrada Chichon,Ana Otto

This study stresses the major circumstances in terms of timing of pedagogical intervention in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts within the same school setting in Madrid (Spain). The rationale... see more

Pags. 578 - 586  

Vildan Inci Kavak

This paper investigates how negation develops in the speech of a Turkish-speaking child in the very early stages of language acquisition. The study features the video recordings of a child between the ages of 19 and 22 months and the analyses of negative ... see more

Pags. 587 - 604  

Nesrin Ozturk,Ferah Senaydin

This study aimed to examine a) effects of metacognition and proficiency on EFL reading performance and b) the relation of metacognition and EFL reading performance. Data were collected by Metacognitive Awareness Inventory and institutional reading scores ... see more

Pags. 605 - 617  

N. Aylin Ünlü,Hüseyin Öz

This study aimed to investigate the professional development needs of Turkish as a foreign language teachers and to examine whether there was a difference among the professional development needs of teachers with different educational backgrounds. To this... see more

Pags. 618 - 632  

Murat Hismanoglu

This study aimed at analyzing the articles related to English (L2) pronunciation teaching written between 2012 and 2017. To achieve this purpose, 106 articles related to English (L2) pronunciation teaching published in fourteen well-known international jo... see more

Pags. 633 - 648  

Muhammet Rasit Memis

This study aims to determine the levels of reading comprehension and morphological awareness in middle school students and to examine the dimensions of these two concepts by illustrating the existence of a relationship between them. The study group of the... see more

Pags. 649 - 677  

Fatma Yuvayapan

The belief that the native language practices of individuals improve their competence in a foreign language gave rise to a number of bilingual language pedagogies, one of which is translanguaging. This term does not merely refer to switching between two l... see more

Pags. 678 - 694  

Burcu Sentürk,Ismail Hakki Mirici

The study investigated the effect of European Language Portfolio (ELP on students’ attitudes towards learning English. The study also examined the attitudes of students and teachers towards the ELP and its implementation into the curriculum. The study was... see more

Pags. 695 - 718  

Bahattin Simsek,Siddik Bakir

Human beings, since they first met different languages and cultures, have had an urge to learn those languages and cultures. In modern societies, this urge has currently turned into a necessity. As a result of this necessity, the supply-demand balance has... see more

Pags. 719 - 738  

Faruk Polatcan,Nurullah Sahin

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of secondary school students’ writing tendency, writing self-efficacy and writing attitude variables and how these variables predict each other through structural equation modeling. For this purpose, the r... see more

Pags. 739 - 753