25 articles in this issue
Farzaneh Solgi,Dara Tafazoli
The connection between language and culture has always been a concern of L2 teachers and educators. Whether culture of the target language is to be incorporated into L2 teaching has been a hotly debated issue. Mostly it has been emphasized that without th... see more
Pinar Çankaya
The primary concern of this paper is to explore the self-efficacy beliefs of active English language teachers and student teachers. For this reason, a comprehensive literature review is presented to shed light on the issue investigated. The sampling proce... see more
Samad Mirza Suzani
The main aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between Iranian EFL Teachers’ reflective behavior as well as their gender and their proficiency level. It also aimed to probe sub-scales of teachers' reflectivity as the best predictors... see more
Adnan Yilmaz
Based on Larsen-Freeman’s (2001) three-dimensional (form-meaning-use) framework of grammar teaching, this study aimed to investigate which type of clause (noun, adjective or adverbial) is the most challenging for second/foreign language (L2) learners in w... see more
Ahmet Önal,Nuray Alagözlü
This article aims to arrive at an understanding of in-service language teachers’ perceptions of the EPOSTL self-assessment descriptors in relation to Turkish Foreign Language Education context. More specifically, the researcher aims to reveal the categori... see more
Md. Ashrafuzzaman
This study focused on the impact of in-service training (cluster meeting) on English teachers’ classroom practice at the English in Action (EIA) intervention schools. This research was qualitative in nature. For the convenience of the research and conduct... see more
Esra Harmandaoglu Baz,Korkut Uluç Isisag
Promoting intercultural competence of learners during language learning process has been found crucial recently. However, this side of language learning has been neglected. Teachers complain about lack of time, up-to-date materials about other cultures, a... see more
Umu Arifatul Azizah,Joko Nurkamto,Nur Arifah Drajati
The role of pre-service teacher in the educational field has been many times concerned among the researchers. Pre-service English teacher in particular, needs to improve their teaching skill in order to achieve the high quality of teaching English. One of... see more
Seyda Eraslan
This study was designed as an explorative, descriptive, and observational/ experimental study. With a fluency-oriented approach to quality, it aims at presenting and discussing the results of an experiment designed so as to explore the impact of sentence ... see more
Meliha R. Simsek,Esin Dundar
The major trend in ELT materials evaluation has been the measurement of general satisfaction levels against borrowed items from previous checklists. However, their real quality can be accurately assessed through contextually relevant criteria. In this stu... see more
Okan Önalan,Ali Emre Karagül
Teacher cognition research, which primarily focuses on identifying what teachers think, know and believe, is crucial to understanding teachers’ perceptional structure as it relates to their instructional practices. Thus, teachers’ cognition on assessment ... see more
Sevda Balaman
This study explored the impact of a digital storytelling (DS)-integrated methodology on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ (narrative) writing skills. This current study was conducted at School of Foreign Languages, Cumhuriyet University with t... see more
Özlem Kaslioglu,Pinar Ersin
In late 1990s, teacher cognition has emerged as an important field of inquiry as more and more research studies have demonstrated that teachers’ cognitions influence their instructional decisions and activities (Borg, 2003). In the case of pre-servi... see more
Mehtap Özden
Language learning is a process that probably starts even while in the womb and lasts lifelong. This process begins with the acquisitions of the mother tongue, diversifies with academic needs in the following years and continues with foreign language learn... see more
Firat Kanat,Ishak Kozikoglu
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among 8th grade secondary school students' self-regulated strategies, motivational beliefs, attitudes towards English course and English academic achievement. In this study, correlational surve... see more
Bengü Aksu Ataç,Hatice Özgan Sucu,Baris Eriçok,Merve Bulut
The purpose of the study is to identify the difference between achievement levels of students in optional and compulsory English preparatory classes at the School of Foreign Languages at the University of Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli. In accordance with this... see more
Hatice G Yüksel,Gülümser Efeoglu,Kiymet Merve Celen
Efforts to understand changes in language development and variations in language production across lifespan have increased considerably in the past several decades (Sankoff, 2017). In narrative discourse production, although several studies have reported ... see more
Adem Soruç,Carol Griffiths
This article describes a study into the multiple interacting factors which motivate learners of Turkish, the demand for which has been steadily increasing given the geo-political realities of the region at this time. A questionnaire was used which examine... see more
Özkan Kirmizi,Arif Sariçoban
This study tries to explore the relationship between EFL teachers’ locus of control and academic self – efficacy in Turkey. For the purpose of the study, the quantitative data of the research will be obtained through Multidimensional Locus of Control Scal... see more
Bahadir Tosun
AbstractThe present study is a quantitative research that attempts to scrutinize the place of students’ views on integrating contextual micro-grammar revision with contextual vocabulary teaching consistent with Constructivism. Therefore, the study i... see more
Berk Ilhan
Text length is considered as one of the factors that cause listening task difficulty by many researchers (Chen, 2005; Mohamadi, 2013; Mendelsohn, 1994; Robinson, 2001). However, teachers sometimes consider text length as the single reason for a listening ... see more
Emre Debreli,Hasan Bilokçuoglu
The role of the teacher’s personality can be placed amongst many factors that play a role in learning English as a second/foreign language. A teacher with a humorous character inevitably aids in reducing any potential fear that may be experienced by stude... see more
Bahar Sarisu(Tas),Kagan Büyükkarci
This study aims to determine English preparatory class students’ assessment preferences and test anxieties and whether there is a relationship between these two dependent variables or not. It also aims to see whether or not there is a significant differen... see more
Iskender Hakki Sarigöz,Fatima Nur Fisne
AbstractYoung language learners (YLLs) have a pivotal role in constructing their English language learning by making sense of their own environment. For that reason, assessing and evaluating young learners in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom ... see more
Zehra Köroglu
This study has been conducted to evaluate the transition marker (TM) usage in the doctoral dissertations written by the native speakers (NSs) of English and the Turkish speakers (TSs) of English. The purpose is to compare the TM usage in the introduction,... see more