24 articles in this issue
Eda Duruk
This study aims at examining the frequency of interpersonal metadiscourse markers in academic written discourse and investigating the way Turkish writers use interpersonal metadiscourse, namely in MA dissertations from one major academic field; English la... see more
Fatma Demiray Akbulut
This research analysed the impact of morphological treatment in English morphological awareness task. The main aim of this study is to understand the relationship between morphological awareness and vocabulary knowledge of university preparatory class stu... see more
Hülya Misir
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Sabriye Sener,Perihan Korkut
This study aims to explore the views, perceptions and suggestions of teacher trainees regarding L1 use in foreign language classes and search for their awareness of the issue. A qualitative research design was employed. The findings revealed that mo... see more
María-Teresa Cáceres-Lorenzo,Marcos Salas-Pascual,Isabel-Cristina Alfonzo-de-Tovar,Yaiza Santana-Alvarado,Cristina Santana-Quintana,María-Jesús Vera-Cazorla
This article investigates 292 postgraduate students of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain), through a questionnaire designed with Likert scale. This inquiry was about certain indicators (private, educational actions and le... see more
Cuneyt Demir
In the field of ELT, a growing awareness has been paid to the use of correct and appropriate word combinations. Of methods and techniques existed in the literature, the issue of lexical collocation gets a great deal of attention. However, one of the main ... see more
Ertan Kusçu
The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons of anxiety levels of high school students who learn French as a second foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of four hundred fifty-six students from two high schools in Denizli province i... see more
Yusuf Demir,Mustafa Yavuz
Gender discrimination is still a hot debate running in the periphery of education. One way it is imposed on students is through printed materials and coursebooks, particularly those used for foreign language teaching given their linguistic content and con... see more
Ceylan Yangin Ersanli,Abdülvahit Çakir
Humour is a universal phenomenon and has been studied in many fields of research, namely, literature, linguistics, psychology¸ sociology and philosophy. Humour is often expressed through language. As for language teaching, failure to understand humorous l... see more
Mohammad Reza Ghorbani
In an attempt to facilitate and foster idiom retention and recall, this study investigated the effect of pictorial and etymological treatments on Iranian undergraduate students’ idiom learning. The paired-samples experimental design was used to study 26 s... see more
Dogu Erdener
Speech perception is beyond the auditory domain and a multimodal process, specifically, an auditory-visual one – we process lip and face movements during speech. In this paper, the findings in cross-language studies of auditory-visual speech perception in... see more
Gizem Dogan,Ismail Hakki Mirici
Learner autonomy has become a central ability to develop in learners for a fruitful language learning/teaching process in EFL classes. Particularly, in this world of knowledge, teaching learners how to access resources and how to use them for their learni... see more
Tanju Deveci,Ikhlas Ben Hmida
Advanced computer technology has transformed the way instruction is designed and delivered at all education levels including college. However, today’s younger ‘digital-native’ generation may often take their computer skills for granted, which impacts thei... see more
Serdar Derman,Mehmet Bardakçi,Mustafa Serkan Öztürk
Although suprasegmental features are essential in conveying meaning, they are one of the neglected topics in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. This paper aims to examine read speech by Arabic students learning Turkish as a foreign language and descr... see more
Sinan Çakir
The present study is a follow-up study of Çakir (2016b) which focused on the adverbial & which NP constructions asymmetry within island structures in Turkish. The characteristics of wh-adverbial nasil “how” is compared with the which-NP constructions hang... see more
Abdülvahit Çakir,Müzeyyen Nazli Güngör
This study explores the perspectives of 3rd and 4th year pre-service teachers on the evaluation of the practices in teaching English to young learners based on 21st century teacher qualifications. Employing a mixed methods design, the qualitative data com... see more
Taofeek Olaiwola Dalamu
Institutions are known through the names-cum-titles shown on their signboards, internet websites, letterheads, etc. However, it seems that such cultures could not satisfy the yearning of most organizations. So, they further propagate&n... see more
Derya Kulavuz-Onal,Sibel Tatar
Over the past decades, teacher burnout has attracted teacher education scholars worldwide as regards to its causes, effects, and amelioration. Although the burnout phenomenon is not new, the research on teacher burnout in Turkey is still relatively recent... see more
Belgin Aydin,Meral Melek Unver,Bülent Alan,Sercan Saglam
This paper explains the process of designing a curriculum based on the Taba Model and the Global Scale of English (GSE) in an intensive language education program. The Taba Model emphasizing the involvement of the teachers and the learners in the curricul... see more
Aysegül Takkaç Tulgar
This study aimed to get ideas formed by undergraduate foreign language students about the applicability and advantages and disadvantages of ‘selfie@ssessment’. Underpinning this study of selfie@ssessment by undergraduate students is that an increasing bod... see more
Veda Aslim Yetis
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of composing process and knowledge about coherence/cohesion in French foreign language writing skill. Research sample consists of 35 Turkish students studying French language teaching at a Turkish university. T... see more
Dilek Karakoç,Gül Durmusoglu Köse
This study is an attempt to clarify the incremental and multidimensional nature of foreign language vocabulary development and its relation to the participants’ reading and writing performances and general language ability of English as a foreign language... see more
Giti Ehtesham Daftari,Zekiye Müge Tavil
The discrimination between native and non-native English speaking teachers is reported in favor of native speakers in literature. The present study examines the linguistic insecurity of non-native English speaking teachers (NNESTs) and investigates its in... see more
Ayfer Su Bergil,Arif Sariçoban
The current practices in the field of foreign language teacher education have a heavy inclination to make use of traditional means especially throughout the assessment process of student teachers at foreign language departments. Observing the world in ter... see more