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Ozfidan, Burhan – English Language Teaching, 2017
Language is a crucial factor for the academic achievement of minority people. Speaking the mother tongue in school increases self-confidence and thinking skills, and conveys freedom of speech. Mother tongue is an inseparable element of his or her culture and that everyone has the right to learn his or her mother tongue. The main objective of this…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Native Language Instruction, Attendance
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Deniz, Esma Biricik; Özkan, Yonca; Bayyurt, Yasemin – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
The leading position of English as a global language has evidently been continuing for several decades. This pivotal role has inevitably been influencing the agenda of English language teaching and teacher education in most domains of the profession. Although English as a lingua franca (ELF) implications and practices on teaching and teacher…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Official Languages, Teaching Methods
Coskun, Abdullah – Online Submission, 2011
English has become the world's international language, used for international communication mostly among non-native speakers of other languages and 80 percent of all the English teachers around the world are nonnative English-speaking (NNES) teachers (Canagarajah, 1999). Therefore, there is a growing need to investigate the EIL (English as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Teachers, English (Second Language), Official Languages
Turkan, Sultan – Online Submission, 2013
In a developing nation like Turkey, the English language plays a significant role in educational and socioeconomic mobility. English is acquired and taught as a foreign language (EFL) primarily in the classrooms. However, the ways in which English language is represented in classroom instruction have been hardly examined and understood. With that,…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Developing Nations, Foreign Countries