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Direct linkZaif, Figen; Karapinar, Aydin; Yangin Eksi, Gonca – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
The authors explore the effect of medium of instruction on students' attainments at a large state university in Turkey in the Department of Business Administration. The findings indicate no statistically significant difference in grades of 386 students with respect to medium of instruction. As for entry rankings however, those in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Language of Instruction, Accounting
Macaro, Ernesto; Akincioglu, Mustafa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
In Turkey, as in much of the rest of the non-Anglophone world, universities are offering an increasing number of courses through English Medium Instruction (EMI) rather than through the medium of the first language (L1) of the majority of the population. Previous research has explored teacher and student perceptions and attitudes towards EMI and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Download full textYildiz, Mine; Yesilyurt, Savas – English Language Teaching, 2017
This paper following a mixed-method research design investigates the role of L1 use in L2 teaching from the perspectives of Turkish prospective English teachers. Data were collected from 374 Turkish prospective teachers in ELT department of four state universities in Turkey through a questionnaire. It was aimed to obtain a general view about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction
Atas, Ufuk – TESL-EJ, 2018
This paper presents an empirical study that investigates the role of vocabulary knowledge in listening comprehension with 33 advanced Turkish learners of English as a foreign language. The Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt & Clapham, 2001) is used to measure the vocabulary knowledge of the participants and a standardized listening test…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension
Yilmaz, Ercan; Dikilitas, Kenan – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2017
Adverbs require a great deal of effort to be mastered, and even the most advanced users of that language have difficulty in using them correctly (Narita & Sugiura, 2006; Peacock, 2010; Lei, 2012; Leedham & Cai, 2013). The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent relatively high proficiency level EFL learners use different types…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language)
Ozturk, Meral – Language Learning Journal, 2015
This article reports the results of two studies on the vocabulary growth of advanced learners of English as a foreign language in an English-medium degree programme. Growth in learners' written receptive and productive vocabularies was investigated in one cross-sectional and one longitudinal study over three years. The effect of word frequency on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Longitudinal Studies, English (Second Language), Receptive Language
Strotmann, Birgit; Bamond, Victoria; Lopez Lago, Jose Maria; Bailen, Maria; Bonilla, Sonia; Montesinos, Francisco – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2014
Few studies have been conducted at the tertiary level on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The current study aims to gather and share preliminary data concerning CLIL in higher education at several universities in different countries. A questionnaire and brief description of the project and its objectives were emailed to all…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Cross Cultural Studies, Questionnaires
Griffiths, Carol; Cansiz, Gökhan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The language learning strategy question has been debated on a number of levels, including definition, the strategy/success relationship and strategy coordination. In addition, awareness has been steadily growing of the importance of taking an holistic view of the strategy phenomenon and examining strategies not just in isolation but as part of an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Holistic Approach, English (Second Language), Literature Reviews
Ilhan, Dilek; Aydin, Hasan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
In recent years, bilingual education has been a crucial phenomenon in the educational community in Turkey. This study aims to investigate whether academics have positive perceptions towards bilingual education or not. Regarding this issue, it is important to get the opinions of academics that are responsible for training future teachers. An online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Bilingual Education, Teacher Attitudes
Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2015
Based on the empirical data of my PhD research, this paper analyses the perceptions of 351 undergraduate students enrolled at English-medium universities towards English in terms of the language ideology framework. The students were purposively sampled from three programs at three Turkish universities. The data were drawn from student opinion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Student Surveys
Aydogan, Ismail; Dogan, Ahmet Atilla; Bayram, Nuran – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine perceived levels of burnout among Turkish high school teachers working in Turkey and abroad. Method: A total of 255 Turkish teachers working at public schools in Germany (n=78), Cyprus (n=94) and Turkey (n=83) comprised our study group. In Germany and Cyprus, the participants were selected…
Descriptors: High Schools, Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
Kiliçkaya, Ferit – Online Submission, 2006
This paper reports on the results of a small-scale survey of the attitudes of instructors of non-language subjects towards the use of English as a medium of instruction in Turkish universities, where Turkish is the native language of the great majority of the students. The sample of this study consisted of 100 instructors at the universities in…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Turkish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kocakulah, Sabri; Ustunluoglu, Evrim; Kocakulah, Aysel – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2005
The effectiveness of teaching academic courses such as mathematics and science in a foreign language has been investigated by several international studies in the literature. Even though the studies conducted have brought up contradictory results, most of them reveal that learning academic courses through a foreign language medium may pose…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Energy
