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Karimijavan, Gelavizh; Ebadi, Abbas; Yadegari, Fariba; Dastjerdi Kazemi, Mehdi; Darouie, Akbar; Karimi, Salah Eddin – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the discriminant validity of the Persian version of Alberta Language Development Questionnaire (ALDeQ) in Turkish-Persian bilingual children, aged 75 months with 19 months of exposure to Persian, on average. The study sample included the parents of 22 bilingual children with language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, Questionnaires, Parent Attitudes
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Soysal, Y.; Radmard, S. – Journal of Education, 2018
This study explores the initial teaching competencies of 211 prospective teachers (PT) through an examination of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) documentations that were obtained through a PCK Construction Task. The scored data were subjected to a factor analysis, and two factors of PCK were extracted. ANOVA results showed that even…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers
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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
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Önalan, Okan; Çakir, Abdulvahit – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate the pragmatic language behavior of Turkish learners of English in formal complaint situations through the comparison of their speech act performances to those of native speakers. The data was collected from a total of 276 participants, 132 Native Speakers (NSs) and 144 Turkish Learners (TLs) of English.…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lay, Keith J.; Yavuz, Mehmet A. – Language Learning & Technology, 2020
This study investigates the possibility and efficacy of paper-based, in-class, data-driven learning (DDL) of academic lexical bundles below the C1 level of proficiency described by the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR; advanced high ACTFL). A two-stage experimental design involving three groups (n = 41) and 24 two-to-four word academic…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Rating Scales, Guidelines, Second Language Learning
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Altay, Ismail Firat; Altay, Ayse – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Integration of technology in foreign language classes has long been a matter of interest for researchers. Yet, studies have often yielded indecisive and conflicting results. Besides, there have been few, if any, studies exploring the relationship between learners' use of metacognitive reading strategies and their performance in reading tests. The…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Jones, Christian; Waller, Daniel – TESOL International Journal, 2017
This article reports on a quasi-experimental study investigating the effectiveness of two different teaching approaches, explicit teaching and explicit teaching combined with textual and aural input enhancement used to teach lexical items to elementary level learners of Turkish in a higher education context. Forty participants were divided into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Tests