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Seyda Özçaliskan; Ché Lucero; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Developmental Science, 2024
Blind adults display language-specificity in their packaging and ordering of events in speech. These differences affect the representation of events in "co-speech gesture"--gesturing with speech--but not in "silent gesture"--gesturing without speech. Here we examine when in development blind children begin to show adult-like…
Descriptors: Blindness, Vision, Nonverbal Communication, Children
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Ozlem Ozan; Yasin Ozarslan; Sevgi Calisir Zenci – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2025
This study analyzed linguistic errors as part of the Differentiated Distance Education of Turkish as a Foreign Language Project, which pursues the development of an adaptive MOOC for Turkish as a second language. Therefore, the Turkish CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) A1-level writing exam papers of 177 learners were…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Error Patterns
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Koç, Tuncay – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Using Conversation Analysis, this article explores the ways in which teasing is employed as an interactional tool to respond to learner-initiated departures in videotaped adult English as Foreign Language classrooms. The analysis focuses on the moments of classroom interaction where student contributions and behaviours initiate shifts from the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Behavior
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Özbay, Ali Sükrü; Gürsoy, Zehra – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
The study aimed to investigate the disciplinary variations and the structural/functional features of recurrent expressions in the introduction and literature sections of the Master of Arts (MA) theses in two corpora. It is significant since the bundles fulfil specific functions in the form of formulaic language. The sampling of the study was…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Masters Theses
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Altuntas Gursoy, Ilke; Sever, Sedat – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The research purpose is examining the poems in Turkish textbooks for 1st-8th grade in terms of figurative language usage. The data source used in this qualitative study was gathered from the Turkish textbooks for the 1st-8th grade which was published in 2015-2016. The data were collected through document analysis and analysed via content analysis.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Proverbs, Language Patterns, Turkish
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Kahraman, Mehmet; Subasi, Gonca – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2022
The present study aims to reveal the use of high-frequency verbs "make" and "do" when they occur in a verb+noun combination in the argumentative essays of Turkish learners of English. In this context, the present study investigated the grammatical and semantic patterns and erroneous productions in the learner corpus. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse
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Atasever Belli, Serap; Sögüt, Sibel – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
The aims of the present study are: (1) to examine the methodological issues on the development of context-dependent and context-independent task development process in investigating the cognitive verb complementation patterns in English; and (2) to design and administer task items to analyze the learners' recognition and production levels in the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)