60 articles in this issue
Mehdi Solhi,Ilknur Eginli
While there is general agreement among learners, teachers, and scholars that constructive feedback on writing is necessary to revision, there are fewer consensuses on how feedback should be given, when, by whom, and what sort of feedback is most effective... see more
Kuan-Chung Huang,Ming-Yu Tseng
Many studies investigated metaphors in news; however, few of them focused specifically on headlines. By investigating metaphors in 133 collected NBA news headlines written in Chinese, this paper analyzes the creativity in them. Conceptual Metaphor Theory,... see more
Mehmet Emin Uslu
The aim of the current study is to find out the possibility of transfer of affective domains of reading specifically reading habits and attitudes from L1 to EFL and the role of learners’ proficiency level on these reading habits and attitudes. The study w... see more
Asli Aktan-Erciyes
The present study investigated the longitudinal effects of early exposure to L2-English on L1-Turkish language competence, narrative skills and executive functioning. We asked whether early immersion-like exposure to L2, starting around 3 years of age, wo... see more
Sudarat Payaprom,Yupares Payaprom
Knowing students’ learning styles provides a good start for the design of effective instruction. The purpose of this research is to determine the preferred learning styles of undergraduate students and to determine the relationship between learning style ... see more
Emrah Boylu,Demet Kardas
The aim of this study is to determine the views of teachers and students about the teaching and learning of slang in teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The student-based working group of the study, using a screening model of quantitative research met... see more
Hatice Altunkaya,Bilge Ayranci
Academic writing intends to enunciate research findings in a certain discipline within the scientific world. The contents of the Turkish Language II course, offered in the spring semesters of the teacher training programs in education faculties, are based... see more
Defne Erdem Mete
As a product of Council of Europe’s initiatives to promote intercultural dialogue, the Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media (AIEVM) was published as a tool to help learners reflect on their intercultural encounters. This study ai... see more
Yusuf Kasimi
In the simplest term, democracy may be defined as a set of views and standards towards freedom, however it includes an array of approaches which have been framed over the history of mankind. In short, democracy is the systematized form of freedom. A democ... see more
Nurcihan Yürük
Pronunciation is one of the main problems in language teaching and learning and it gets little attention. Most of students underestimate the importance of pronunciation considering that pronunciation is less important than other aspects of language. Many ... see more
Mesut Gün,Ahmet Yilmaz
Technological developments are rapidly becoming widespread especially in developing countries. Educational institutions have also been affected by technological developments. One of the educational technologies which became popular recently is Smart Board... see more
Giyoto Giyoto,Novianni Anggraini,Elen Inderasari,Luthfie Arguby Purnomo,Luthfie Arguby Purnomo
“To what gender and status one talks” governs more the speaker, in deciding their culturally and socially accepted strategy in conversation, than “who talks”; as the airport runway dictates the pilot’s landing strategy. This paper, employing conversationa... see more
Ufuk Özkale,Tugba Yanpar Yelken
This study seeks to determine the problems faced by the Turkish instructors serving in the primary education institutions and camps within the framework of the project PICTES in teaching Turkish as a foreign language to Syrian students and to provide insi... see more
Musa Çifci,Kadir Kaplan
In this research, it is aimed to develop “Caricature Creation Rubric” which can be used to evaluate the products produced by 6th grade students at the end of their Caricature creation process and to make its validity and reliability studies. The criteria ... see more
Hatice Sezgin,Mustafa Serkan Öztürk
The purpose of the present study is to find out the extent to which the real spoken language is reflected in TV series in terms of vocabulary. In accordance with this purpose, a corpus was compiled using scripts from two British TV series, and it was comp... see more
Davut (William) Peaci (Peachy)
Scholars have given little attention to testing’s influence on the outcomes of university English preparatory programs (UEPP). Variations on the two main classifications of writing evaluation, the holistic and the analytic were examined. The objectives we... see more
Siddik Bakir
The aim of this research is to analyze the attitude of prospective Turkish language teachers towards the Course on Instructional Technologies and Material Development and to find out whether this attitude differs on the basis of changes in certain criteri... see more
Nalan Kiziltan,Zülal Ayar
The impetus behind the development of this research is to study the potential influence(s) of cartoons (caricatures) on L2 learners in terms of gaining cultural awareness and enhancing their motivation levels. To that end, three English classics in the fo... see more
Hilal Peker
Using data from the 2018 National Survey of Latinos that was conducted by The Pew Hispanic Center/Kaiser Family Foundation, the researcher in the present study reports on the perceptions of Latinos on English and their educational degrees as well as their... see more
Harun Sahin
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the listening types of the candidates Turkish language teachers of Kafkas University and various variables (Gender, grade level, time in front of the screen, participating in activities). Th... see more
Gökçen Göçen
Learning a foreign language includes learning vocabulary together with language rules and using language skills by means of them. Words are presented to learners through teachers and coursebooks in educational processes. Yet, it is not possible to teach a... see more
Taofeek Olaiwola Dalamu
This study illuminated the strategy of Zenith Bank®, employing characteristics of children as fascinating devices to persuade parents-cum-guardians to open a ZECA account for their children. Nine advertisements, entwined with features of children, were co... see more
Youxing Xiao,Janpanit Surasin,Denchai Prabjandee
The study aimed to investigate the current student-teachers’ professional development, to develop a training module to improve their ELT proficiencies and to determine its effectiveness. Consequently, the mixed methods research of the convergent parallel ... see more
Fatma Kaya,Oktay Yagiz
This study aims to make a comparison between two article groups written in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) by Turkish scholars and non-Turkish scholars living and working in Anglophone countries to find the rhetorical structure they employ in... see more
Filiz Yalcin Tilfarlioglu
This study is mainly focused on using quantitative design conducted with 975 students and participants were randomly selected from 3 universities, 5 high schools, 2 middle schools and 1 primary school in Turkey and Iraq in order to analy... see more
Recep Sahin Arslan,Sidika Isik Dogan
This study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of planned focus on form method in the acquisition of target language forms in English. The study specifically examined the planned focus on form method and the teaching model in the textbook of the 5th ... see more
Sinan Çakir
The present study focuses on long distance scrambling and operator movement from embedded clauses to sentence initial position in Turkish. It proposes that the scrambling of the arguments out of the complement clauses is possible due to the fact that such... see more
Semin Kazazoglu
Reading is a basic language skill which is essential not only because it develops the literacy skills of the students but because enables them to comprehend and formulate the discourse within a language. Lack of reading, on the other hand, causes impairme... see more
Nihan Yilmaz,Didem Koban Koc
The present study aims to explore the effects of corpus-based teaching on English language learners’ pragmatic comprehension and production of 19 formulaic sequences (FS), categorized under agreements, disagreements, self-clarifications and other-clarific... see more
Kübra Okumus Dagdeler,Mustafa Yavuz Konca,Hakan Demiröz
The aim of this study was to identify the effectiveness of a mobile application in vocabulary knowledge improvement of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. This study adopted a quasi-experimental research design consisting of an experimental and ... see more