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Öztürk, Yusuf; Tasçi, Samet – rEFLections, 2023
This study was conducted to examine the lexical bundles used by nonnative speakers of English and explore any potential L1 influence on L2 lexical bundle use. Following a corpus-based approach, the frequency and types of English four-word lexical bundles in the postgraduate academic writing of Turkish and American students were analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Badem, Nebahat; Simsek, Tugba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This quantitative study aims to reveal the most frequently used phrasal verbs (PVs) by L1 speakers of English and Turkish EFL learners in written and spoken registers. With the purpose of spotting any overuse and/or underuse by Turkish EFL learners, it compares their usage to L1 English speakers' through four corpora -- two learner corpora and two…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics
Tasçi, Samet; Öztürk, Yusuf – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Post-predicate that clauses are one of the indicators of evaluative language which shows the attitude, position, and personal evaluation of the writers in academic discourse. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the distribution and frequently used controlling verbs of post-predicate that clauses controlled by verb (VTHAT) in academic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
Yigit, Gökhan – TESL-EJ, 2021
This study aimed at investigating the influence of L1 (Turkish) on the acquisition of L2 (English) collocations by comparing the scores of two Turkish ELT student groups with a phrase-judgment test. The test included both congruent and incongruent collocations as well as unrelated word combinations. The participants whose vocabulary levels were…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Ates, N. Tayyibe; Ari, Gökhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
The purpose of this work is to determine how widely and in which semantic and morphologic categories, word associations are used by children. There is no study about word associations children use in the acquisition of Turkish as their mother tongue. Participants of the current research consisted of a total of 90 kids between 4.0 and 6.0 years of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Preschool Children, Nouns
Yuvayapan, Fatma; Yükselir, Ceyhun – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Aside from learning the basic and common grammatical structures, English as foreign language learners ("hereafter EFL") have to be familiar with a wide range of lexical chunks called collocations. Being sensitive to collocations is the key of attaining a native-like fluency in English. The aim of this study is twofold: to explore the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Ünlütabak, Burcu; Zengin, Betül Firdevs – First Language, 2021
This study investigates the effects of early second-language (L2) acquisition on introduction of characters in narrative discourse by comparing 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (first-language [L1] = Turkish) and bilingual (L1 = Turkish, L2 = English) children. Turkish does not have a grammaticalized article system like English which enables to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Native Language
Akbulut, Fatma Demiray – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Over the last few decades, it has become obligatory to publish academic research to survive in the academic world. In academic writing skill, lexical bundles (LBs) usage is marked as a master ability to build well-organized paragraphs or essays and are essential instruments to sound more natural and be fluent in English. The current study aimed to…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Native Speakers, Faculty Publishing, Academic Language
Uludag, Onur – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
The present study aims to investigate the role of L1 transfer effects on L2 sentence processing strategies during the interpretation of relative clause (RC) attachment ambiguities. The main body of the study is divided into two sections. The first section describes Experiment 1, which is designed to test the resolution of RC attachment ambiguities…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Contrastive Linguistics, Native Language, Transfer of Training
Çandarli, Duygu – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Metalinguistic knowledge is regarded as an important factor in the development of writing. However, little attention has been paid to the metalinguistic knowledge of L2 writers in non-anglophone contexts. This study investigates L1-Turkish-speaking, first-year university students' metalinguistic knowledge of the lexical phrases they use in their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Metalinguistics, Phrase Structure
Istifci, Ilknur – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study aims at investigating compliment responses of Turkish and Chinese EFL learners by collecting data via a Discourse Completion Test. The participants of the study are Lower-Intermediate and Intermediate Level Chinese and Turkish EFL learners and native English speakers. The first purpose of the study is to compare Turkish and Chinese EFL…
Descriptors: Turkish, Chinese, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Güngör, Fatih; Uysal, Hacer Hande – English Language Teaching, 2016
In the recent years, globalization prepared a ground for English to be the lingua franca of the academia. Thus, most highly prestigious international journals have defined their medium of publications as English. However, even advanced language learners have difficulties in writing their research articles due to the lack of appropriate lexical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Snape, Neal; García-Mayo, Maria Del Pilar; Gurel, Ayse – International Journal of English Studies, 2013
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 mass generic nouns. The four…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Nouns