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Gülsah Tikiz-Ertürk; Özgen Korkmaz; Çigdem Karatepe – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Teaching pragmatics is crucial in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) since it is one of the primary indications of successfully and appropriately communicating in a target language. To our knowledge, there are not many studies on teaching pragmatics and no thoroughly designed measurement tools to investigate the perspectives of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Hilal Günes; Hacer Hande Uysal – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
With the increasing interest in Positive Psychology within the realm of L2 learning, the role of positive emotions, particularly Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE) has garnered attention in Second Language Acquisition research (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014). Despite the growing interest in FLE in Turkey, the widely used Foreign Language Enjoyment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Translation
Cemile Dogan – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2023
Tests are designed as an integral part of the teaching process, necessarily including stakeholders from the onset of preparations to grade allocation, the administration of the test, and the interpretation of the results. The process commences with selecting content to evaluate, deciding upon the skills to be tested, and to meet course objectives…
Descriptors: Teacher Made Tests, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Düzgün, Gizem; Kirkiç, Kamil Arif – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
This study aims to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine the attitudes of Arabic teachers toward Arabic language teaching. The population of this study consists of 171 teachers and teacher candidates for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and 202 teachers for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), who teach Arabic in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Teachers, Arabic, Test Reliability
Nilda Hocaoglu; Gürbüz Ocak – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
Motivation is crucial in the pace and success of language learning, and the effect of motivation on language learning has been extensively studied. Many scales have been developed to measure the motivation levels of the students. However, there are a limited number of studies conducted to specifically measure the motivation towards English…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
Ayar, Zülal – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2021
As the most prestigious and popular standardized achievement test to certify examinees' proficiency of the English language at the national level, Foreign Language Examination (YDS) has been mostly taken by academic staff, undergraduate and graduate students, state employees, and military personnel for years in Turkey. The current study set out to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests, Language Proficiency
Demirdöken, Gökhan; Okur, Sinan – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was twofold. First, we aimed to adapt the English-speaking Anxiety Scale. Second, we intended to investigate the mediating role of English learning motivation and self-confidence on the relationship between English-speaking anxiety and English self-efficacy through a serial mediation analysis.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Anxiety, Speech Skills, Learning Motivation
Taliha Keles – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2024
The aim of the study is to reveal the concurrent validity of the Central Examination of Secondary Education Institutions (OKMS). For this purpose, the relationship between the OKMS subtest raw scores of the students who took the exam and the 8th-grade year-end achievement scores of the courses within the scope of the exam was analyzed by canonical…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 8, Secondary School Students, Test Validity
Saban-Dülger, Nur Seda; Turan, Figen; Özcebe, Esra – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Language sampling analysis (LSA) plays an important role in evaluating language skills; hence, the study aimed to develop new assessment measures for the LSA in Turkish as alternatives to mean length of utterance (MLU) and the Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure. With this aim, Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Turkish, Speech Communication, Correlation
Sarandi, Hedayat – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
One of the major issues in SLA is developing language tests that could produce good measures of implicit knowledge. This study examines the validity of an English Elicited Imitation (EI) test as a measure of L2 implicit grammatical knowledge. Forty freshman university students in Turkey took a set of language tests: an EI test, two storytelling…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Davis, Larry; Norris, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
The elicited imitation task (EIT), in which language learners listen to a series of spoken sentences and repeat each one verbatim, is a commonly used measure of language proficiency in second language acquisition research. The "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test includes an EIT as a holistic measure of speaking proficiency, referred to as the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Proficiency, Speech Communication, Language Tests
Karafil, Burcu; Oguz, Aytunga – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2022
In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to determine English paragraph writing self-efficacy beliefs of university students. The scale was developed in three stages. In the first stage, literature review was conducted and expert opinions were taken. A trial form consisting of 45 items in Likerttype was prepared. Moreover, a pilot study was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Paragraph Composition, Self Efficacy
Eryilmaz, Ali; Yesilyurt, Yusuf Emre – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study aimed to develop a Second Language (L2) Writing Motivation Scale in an EFL context. Within this central aim, sub-studies in three phases were carried out: 1) to create an L2 Writing Motivation Scale, 2) to perform a confirmatory factor analysis and validate the scale, and 3) to test two path models regarding increasing students'…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Motivation, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition)
Arslan, Recep S. – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
The aim of the present study is to develop a valid and reliable scale evaluating the effectiveness of language preparatory programs in the acquisition of language skills. In the development of Foreign Language Skills Scale (FLSS) in this study, research sample consisted of 326 preparatory school students for the exploratory factor analysis (EFA)…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Student Evaluation, Language Skills, Second Language Learning
Boylu, Emrah – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
The aim of this research is to determine teachers' attitude levels towards assessment and evaluation who teach Turkish as a foreign language and to examine them in terms of various variables. Survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the research. Teachers (n=233) who teach Turkish in various institutions participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers