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Çakici, Dilek – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This study aims to investigate EFL teachers' beliefs about the use of reading strategies and what strategies they employ through reading stages in EFL classrooms. In addition, the study aims to compare the teachers' gender and the schools where they are working with the strategies they use. A total of 44 EFL teachers (18 females, 26 males) working…
Descriptors: Beliefs, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Çakir, Hamide; Cengiz, Özge – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
Parent-child interactions and characteristics of mothers' child-directed language have been related to children's linguistic development. Studies on parent-child interactions in Turkey have generally focused on children. There have not been many researches on Turkish motherese. This study addresses this gap by exploring the properties of Turkish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
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Kusçu, Ertan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to determine the reasons of anxiety levels of high school students who learn French as a second foreign language. The sample of the study consisted of four hundred fifty-six students from two high schools in Denizli province in 2015-2016 academic year. In this study, the effects of variables such as learners' gender,…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety
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Asmali, Mehmet; Bilki, Ufuk; Duban, Carina Adriana – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 130 participants took part in this quantitative approach based study. The data suggested…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Anxiety
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Paker, Turan; Erarslan, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This study aims to explore the attitudes of Turkish EFL students towards the writing course at university and to investigate the relationship between students' attitudes and their overall proficiency in writing. The participants were 782 students from various departments in the pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate levels in a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
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Akay, Emel; Toraman, Çetin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
Learning a language means not only studying four skills of proficiency, but also understanding the system of rules underlying. In this respect, learners' attitudes towards grammar are also of vital importance. The main objective of this descriptive study is to determine English language learners' attitudes towards grammar and to analyze these…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Sariçoban, Arif – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2016
This study to be conducted with English Language Teachers at the secondary education in our country during the first semester 2014-2015 academic year, aims to explore the beliefs of these in-service ELT teachers during the micro teaching sessions by the prospective ELT teacher candidates. This study aims at reporting the progress inbetween the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Education, Practicums, Second Language Learning