Linguistics and Language Analysis

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• EDA ATASOY

The aim of this study is to investigate the act of apologizing with subjects from two different levels of English proficiency to find out whether there are similarities and differences between these groups and whether they approach native speaker apology norms. 20 subjects in intermediate level, 20 subjects in advance…

• İLKNUR İSTİFÇİ

This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of English generic noun phrases (NPs) by Spanish, Turkish and Japanese learners. The aim is to identify the role of the first language (L1) in the L2 acquisition of definite NP-level generics and indefinite sentence-level generics with singular, bare plural, and mas…

• AYŞE GÜREL

Teaching English in an EFL context involves certain difficulties.The most important is how to prepare learners to use the English language so as to be able to participate in conversations inside and outside the class.Six classes at intermediate level (nine hours) were video and audio-taped in their entirety.The study…

• YASSAMIN POURIRAN

Technology-mediated task settings are rich interactional domains in which second language (L2) learners manage a multitude of interactional resources for task accomplishment. The affordances of these settings have been repeatedly addressed in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) literature mainly based on theory…

• UFUK BALAMAN

This study focuses on the problems in teaching tenses to Turkish students at university level in Turkey.Some of the problematic and confusing tenses such as Past Simple and Present Perfect Tense, Present Continuous and Present Simple, Past Simple and Past Continuous Tense Teaching grammar have been handled throughout…

• İSMAİL ÇAKIR

Limited studies have been conducted on the effects of error correction on acquiring oral proficiency and the teacher’s role as error corrector. Thus, the present study aims to investigate English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ perceptions of error correction in their speaking classes, reasons and types of error…

• NURİYE DEĞİRMENCİ UYSAL
• SELAMİ AYDIN

Dissatisfied with their marks for assignments, some university students may visit their professors to make a complaint.However, the speech act of complaint, as an aspect of pragmatic competence, has not received as much attention as other speech acts from researchers.The face-threatening nature of this speech act requ…

• TANJU DEVECİ

This study investigated the effectiveness of repetition as corrective feedback in terms of its contribution to student uptake and acquisition.Thirty students in two classes, one control and one experimental participated in the study.In order to discover the effectiveness of repetition as corrective feedback, the class…

• SEÇİL İPEKÇİ

Commonly defined as L2 teachers’ responses to learners’ erroneous utterances, oral correctivefeedback (OCF) is an interactional classroom phenomenon which frequently occurs in foreignlanguage classes and has gained growing momentum in SLA research in recent years.However, how OCF preferences of English teachers vary i…

• KEMAL SİNAN ÖZMEN
• YUSUF DEMİR

Göçle gelen mültecilerin birçok sorunları olmaktadır. Bunlardan en önemlisi de iletişim, yani dil sorunudur. Göç ettikleri ülkenin dilini bilmek, mülteciler için iş bulabilmek, eğitimlerine devam edebilmek, hayatlarını daha düzenli bir şekilde sürdürmek demektir. Son yıllarda Türkiye’ye göç etmek zorunda kalan Suriyel…

• GÜLMİRA KURUOĞLU

Oral Literature of Tambo Minangkabau is mandatory utterances which are always delivered in any traditional ceremonies of Minangkabau society. Each ceremony should be conducted with the delivery of traditional speech called pasambahan . The main content of pasambahan speech is Tambo Minangkabau as a guideline of living…