13 articles in this issue
Erdinç Aslan
In recent years, rapid developments in technology has placed books and notebooks into the mobile phones and tablets and also the dictionaries into these small boxes. Giant dictionaries, which we once barely managed to carry, have been replaced by mob... see more
Engin Koc,Didem Koban Koç
The purpose of this study is to analyze the perceptions of learners’ blog use in a Linguistics course offered in an English Language Teaching program at one of the largest government universities in Turkey. A total of 71 students participated in the study... see more
Hamide Çakir,Özge CENGIZ
Parent-child interactions and characteristics of mothers’ child-directed language have been related to children’s linguistic development. Studies on parent-child interactions in Turkey have generally focused on children. There have not been many researche... see more
Tolga ÖZSEN,Aydin OZBEK
Effective usage of nonverbal and verbal communication in Japanese such as gestures, mimics, silence and employing grammatical or lexical honorifics play a significant role in determining success of foreign language learners in obtaining their intended emp... see more
Ainur Aitkuzhinova-Arslan,Süleyman Gün,Eda Üstünel
Teaching vocabulary is a comprehensive process in foreign language learning requiring specific techniques of appropriate instruction and accurate strategy. The present study was conducted to examine the effects of teaching vocabulary to Turkish young lear... see more
Arif Sariçoban,Bahram Mohammadi Behjoo
This study aims to scrutinize the possible relationship between academic self-efficacy beliefs and foreign language achievement among prospective ELT teachers. To do so, the data for the study were collected through a questionnaire, College Academic Self-... see more
Emrah Dolgunsöz
Inferring unknown word meanings by using contextual clues is a common strategy employed by EFL learners during reading. This study aims to (a) investigate the effect of familiarity on lexical inferences in EFL reading; (b) examine inference efficiency amo... see more
Emrullah Seker
This study focuses on designing an English grammar syllabus for Turkish speaking English learners, which is based on the assumption that learning English grammar will be simpler and easier for Turkish speaking learners if it is introduced in a way by whic... see more
Nurdan Kavakli
Knowing the origin of a language helps us to determine the historical background of that language. As language itself is such a system of a society that is continuously evolving as that aforementioned society learns and technologically develops along with... see more
ceylan yangin ersanli
This study aims to map the cognitive structure of pre-service English language (EL) teachers about three key concepts related to approaches and methods in language teaching so as to discover their learning process and misconceptions. The study involves bo... see more
FADI MAHER AL-KHASAWNEH
This study investigates the level and sources of foreign language learning anxiety experienced by Saudi students studying at King Khalid University (KKU). It also aims to examine the differences between the level of language anxiety and the students’ stud... see more
Yusuf Öztürk,Gül Durmusoglu Köse
Lexical bundles such as on the other hand and as a result of are extremely common and important in academic discourse. The successful use of lexical bundles typical of a specific academic discipline is important for writers and the absence of such bundles... see more
Arif Sariçoban
AbstractThis study to be conducted with English Language Teachers at the secondary education in our country during the first semester 2014-2015 academic year, aims to explore the beliefs of these in-service ELT teachers during the micro teaching sessions ... see more