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Aylin Coskun Kunduz; Silvina Montrul – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Aspectual and mood morphology are vulnerable domains in adult heritage speakers. This paper investigates the root of such vulnerability within the domain of Turkish evidentiality system by comparing 20 second-generation adult and 20 school-age child Turkish heritage speakers to 20 first-generation immigrants (main input providers for child…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Story Telling, Turkish, Immigrants
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Sever, Melih; Ozdemir, Seyhan; Jobson, Kate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
The aim of this study is to explore and analyze metaphors constructed around academics, in both the contexts of the UK and Turkey, to see if general opinion on academics seems to be shifting from the well-known 'ivory-tower' reputation, and if the perception differs amongst sub-groups based on their varying amounts of exposure to the reality of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Figurative Language, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Yildiz, Funda Uzdu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims at describing in detail how university students in Turkey use euphemisms in their daily language usage. The description of the euphemisms in the study was made according to the linguistic formations of euphemisms defined by Warren and accepted in the literature. The euphemisms used by the participants were determined by asking them…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Turkish, College Students, Interpersonal Communication
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Asli Aktan-Erciyes; Ebru Ger; Tilbe Göksun – First Language, 2024
This study investigates the influences of early and intense L2 exposure on children's L1 causative verb production, assessed by an experimental causative verb production task. Turkish expresses causality by morphological and lexical means, whereas English does so by periphrastic and lexical means. Learning L2 English might enhance L1 Turkish…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Balkir, Nalan Bayraktar; Celik, Handan; Cepni, Gokhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigated lexical complexity in English language teaching (ELT) students' essays across genres and over the course of time. The essays included descriptive, compare and contrast, advantage and disadvantage, and argumentative genres. Employing a longitudinal, quasi-experimental and repeated measures design in a year-long writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Babacan, Tugba; Acat, M. Bahaddin – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2023
The study aims to evaluate 9th grade English curriculum within scope of holistic education. It was designed on mixed method. Quantitative data was collected with "Teaching Tendency Inventory" and "Attitude Scale Towards Foreign Language" adapted into Turkish by the researcher (Babacan, 2016) and also "Holistic Learning…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Holistic Approach, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
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Ekoç-Özçelik, Arzu – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2023
The use of interactional metadiscourse markers in opinion paragraphs written by A2-level English learners was investigated in this research. Although metadiscourse is commonly studied in discourse analysis, pragmatics, and language teaching, there has been limited attention given to the writing of beginner-level language learners. Metadiscourse is…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Intercultural Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dolunay, Salih Kürsad; Çiçek, Seher – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The present study aims to submit a general perspective to the conjunctions which Arab students whose language levels were B1 and B2 have structured in their written texts. To this end, this research was designed as a document analysis. In the study, the documents were obtained from free writings by 90 Arab students who were studying at Bolu Branch…
Descriptors: Arabs, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rathert, Stefan; Cabaroglu, Nese – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Acknowledging the increased appreciation of the learner's L1 for L2 learning, this study reports on a criteria-based implementation of bilingual activities in a course of 26 young adult EFL learners at a Turkish university. To investigate potential effects of the bilingual practice on the learners' self-efficacy, a self-efficacy scale of English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Uslu, Banu – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2020
The present study examines the longitudinal effects of the Life-Focused Foreign Language Acquisition Program (LFFLAP) on children who were attending public preschool education. The sample of the study consists of two groups of students studying in a public school in the Selçuklu district of Konya. During the follow-up period, the experimental…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Elementary School Students
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Çakmak, Zeynep; Yangin Ersanli, Ceylan – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Because speaking appropriately and fluently is the ultimate goal in a foreign language learning process, the authenticity of dialogues in the ELT coursebooks becomes even more significant. However, it is rather doubtful whether the dialogues have the function of preparing students for the English language they are likely to encounter in daily life…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Keles, Ufuk; Yazan, Bedrettin; Giles, Amanda – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
With English as the lingua franca, numerous universities in non-English speaking countries offer programs with English medium of instruction (EMI) to receive international recognition in academia. These universities utilize their websites as primary sources for attracting prospective students and faculty from abroad. Drawing upon the distinction…
Descriptors: Turkish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Universities
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Tezcan, Gamze – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to explore the metaphorical perceptions of pre-service teachers about Syrian asylum seekers' children. A metaphor analysis method was conducted with 160 pre-service teachers during the spring semester of the 2017-2018 academic year. Data was collected by a metaphor analysis form. Qualitative and quantitative data analysis…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Refugees, Land Settlement
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Genc, Zubeyde Sinem; Armagan, Kiymet Selin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of the study is to investigate gender-bound language use in Turkish and English languages and to identify the differences and similarities across cultures and genders in the plays with family and social themes. Four English and five Turkish plays were chosen randomly for comparison. The number of words in the plays were taken into…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Statistical Analysis, Turkish, Drama
Can, Cem; Yuvayapan, Fatma – Online Submission, 2018
The authorial stance in academic genres is conveyed with the use of linguistic conventions of disciplines, one of which is metadiscourse. The aim of this study was to compare the use of interactional metadiscourse features (IMDMs) by native academic authors of English (NAAEs) and Turkish-speaking academic authors of English (TAAEs) for the…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Discourse Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Academic Discourse
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