Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Language is a phenomenon which can hardly be viewed separate from its very inherent component, culture. This component does by all means play a significant role in enabling the language to gain a global status. No doubt, some prominent issues do contribute to this process: political, economic, and military supremacy,…

• ERDOĞAN BADA

Since societies develop mutual aims and different societies perpetuate developing long-term economic, social and cultural relationships with other cultural groups and the global instability continues hitting the world, developing intercultural sensitivity becomes more and more important at all levels of the education,…

• MUSTAFA ZÜLKÜF ALTAN

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• DİDEM TUNA KÜÇÜK

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• SÜNDÜZ KASAR

Translation receives a lot of attention from sociology, psychology, computer sciences, information technologies and from linguistics, from which it originates. With the advances in technology in the 21st century, studies show that translation is not a sterile linguistic activity, but a reflection of a set of skills an…

Teaching culture is an indispensable part of language teaching as language and culture are intertwined.Awareness of one's own culture and the target culture is necessary to be able to communicate efficiently.To raise intercultural awareness among EFL learners, literary sources can be a great source as they are authent…

• FATMA FERYAL ÇUBUKÇU
• PINAR TURAL

The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed method study was to identify the level of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ intercultural sensitivity (IS) and reveal underlying factors that might have impact on learners’ IS. Participants were 113 EFL learners studying in the preparatory school of a state…

• NUR GEDİK BAL

This paper aims to cover the semiotic nature of language teaching methods, andtheir sample applications in the language classroom. The verbal and the non-verbalaspects of language teaching should not be kept separate since they are closelyinterrelated and interdependent. The use of signs, symbols and visual aids by th…

Vygotsky's ideas about the semiotic mediation of intermental and intramental functioning are harnessed to examine teacher-student interaction.In particular, the semiotic means for creating intersubjectivity are explored, with an emphasis on how it is possible for students to participate in classroom discourse without…

The article is devoted to the formation of speech activity \namong junior school students in the process of teaching foreign \nlanguages with the help of integrative learning technology through \na personality-active method as the methodological basis of the \nintegrative method. As a result, the technology of teachin…

As the representations of the notion of alienation, fictive neologies help the reader to rationalize the plausibility of an imaginary world. Through these innovations, science fiction distinguishes its imaginary world from the world we actually live in. The translators carry the neologies as the novum/new words (Suvin…

• AYŞE SELMİN SÖYLEMEZ
• ÖZGE AKSOY

Often lauded for its role in language education, very little is said or written about the integration of intercultural education into language teacher training. This research spotlighted different approaches to interculturality as well as focusing on the processes that pre-service English language teachers went throug…

• AYSUN YAVUZ