24 articles in this issue
Hüseyin Öz,Nihan Bursali
In recent years, the L2 Motivational Self System (L2 MSS) has become an influential motivational theory on second or foreign language (L2) learning. Consequently, the present study sought to find out the possible relationship between L2 MSS and L2 Willing... see more
Johann Christian V. Rivera,Alejandro Sapitan Bernardo
Music’s ability to entertain and to affect people psychologically makes it a significant part of human society. Combined with lyrics, music can form songs – a form of media which many are exposed to. Music st... see more
Cynthia Nkechinyere Okoro
This paper undertakes a sociolinguistic analysis of slangy expressions in Nigerian Pidgin. The corpus for this study was gotten systematically through participant observation of conversational discourses in everyday contexts amongst Nigerians living in th... see more
Mahmoud Samaie,Maha Arianmanesh
Pragmatic competence is one of the major components of second/foreign language learners’ communicative language ability. However, in comparison to other components of communicative language competence, learners’ pragmatic competence is far less researched... see more
Ismail Firat Altay,Fulda Karaazmak
AbstractSemiotics is the scientific field dealing with the meaning making process via signs and symbols. This study primarily aims at investigating the opinions and preferences of English instructors about the usage of semiotic elements such as mimics, ge... see more
Cuneyt Demir
Hedging is an important metadiscourse device that should be used for various motives particularly in academic writing because it acts as a face-saving strategy and represents the certainty of the scientists’ knowledge on the study fiel... see more
Vildan Inci Kavak
This study scrutinizes the development of negation in Turkish by analyzing of a monolingual Turkish-speaking child’s speech between 28 to 32 months. The developmental progress of negative forms in parent-child exchanges is explained and presented with exa... see more
Sule Göksel,Anil Rakicioglu Söylemez
The study aims to explore English as a foreign language (EFL) pre-service teachers’ conceptualization of the features of an effective EFL teacher. Additionally, the study attempts to evaluate the role of EFL teacher education programs on EFL PTs’ percepti... see more
Emrah Görgülü
This paper investigates a number of issues regarding negative polarity items (NPIs henceforth), the scope of negation and other negative elements in Turkish. First, based on new data, I argue that the distribution of the adverbial NPI sakin 'ever' is not ... see more
Aysegül Takkaç Tulgar
Peace has been an indispensable notion in the lives of mankind ever since the existence of community life. Having such a significant place in human life, peace has turned into a concept with relevance almost in every aspect of life and language education ... see more
Faranak Abbaszad Tehrani Abbaszad Tehrani
AbstractWriting has been seen as a problem to many of students and learning to write fluently has been the most difficult of the macro-skills for all languages. From academic writing point of view, drawing attention to the constant needs to draft and revi... see more
Orhan Kocaman,Erdinç Aslan
The current study aims to demonstrate a Private Anatolian High School students’ tendencies towards the issue of mother tongue (L1) use in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. The study was conducted in the 2016-2017 academic year. The... see more
Gamze Çaliskan,Safiye Ipek Kuru Gonen
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using concordance lines as part of corpus-based language pedagogy to enhance vocabulary instruction. However, teachers in various L2 teaching contexts may lack awareness on how to design and use concor... see more
Suzan Kavanoz,Burcu Varol
Receptive knowledge of vocabulary has usually been the mostly investigated dimension of lexical assessment while the productive aspect of vocabulary has been studied to a lesser extent. There is hardly any research on the productive vocabulary of English ... see more
Muzaffer Barin,Turgay Han,Sahin Sari
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to represent the current level of motivation of a Turkish EFL teacher at a secondary school in Turkey and her demotivational reasoning. The data was collected from four sources: a) interview, b) self-reflectio... see more
Kutay Uzun,Ece Zehir Topkaya
The present study aimed to find out if Genre-Based Writing Instruction had an effect on learners’ Foreign Language Writing Anxiety levels. The research setting was a compulsory English Literature course in an English Language Teaching (ELT) department, in... see more
Nuray Alagözlü
Vocabulary researchers generally point out three strategies that learners apply in order to find out the meanings of unknown words on their own (Graves, 2006; 2007). The use of context, word parts, reference materials ((e.g. dictionaries, glossaries... see more
Mehmet Kiliç
There is controversy in the literature on language acquisition concerning whether L2 learners develop separate systems for the two languages or they construct a unitary system for both (i.e. interlanguage). Here we investigate whether Voice Onset Time (VO... see more
Ibrahim Halil Topal
Teaching pitch patterns of English as part of one of the elements of intonation has considerably been undervalued in Turkish teacher education contexts despite its significance in communication (Roach, 2001; Scherer, 2003; Maastricht et al., 2016) hence l... see more
Fawzi Al Ghazali
This study investigated the various linguistic, psychological, and sociocultural variables that explain the variation in English as a Lingua Franca among Arab siblings. The variables are not predetermined but extracted from the participants’ contributions... see more
Dinçay Köksal,Emrah Özdemir,Gülsah Tercan,Süleyman Gün,Emre Bilgin
This study investigated EFL teachers’ perceptions of written corrective feedback and the relationship between their written corrective feedback preferences, self-efficacy beliefs and burnout levels. In order to investigate the effect of these contextual f... see more
Esra Kira
Adjectival participles have been classified by their syntactic and semantic functions in many languages. Among the semantic functions, it is proposed that "reversible/irreversible interpretation" of those forms have a distinctive property. Like English, G... see more
Faruk Kural
The present paper, which is a study based on midterm exam results of 53 University English prep-school students, examines correlation between a direct writing test, measured holistically by multiple-trait scoring, and two indirect writing tests used in a ... see more
Novriyanto Napu
This paper aims to shed light on how translation commissioning process relates to the level of the quality of translation set within the context of tourism promotional text translation. Translation quality has been one of the main concerns in the translat... see more