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Boylu, Emrah; Ustabulut, Mete Yusuf; Inal, Ezgi – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
The aim of the study is to determine the beliefs of those who learn Turkish as a foreign language about learning grammar and to determine whether their beliefs are in line with their perceptions of grammar. In this study, which was created using the mixed method, the data about the beliefs of the learners in accordance with the survey method was…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Student Attitudes
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Özcan, Mehmet Fatih – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The aim of this study is to determine the pre-service teachers' perceptions related to teacher/Turkish language teacher concepts through metaphors. The study group consists of first and fourth grade undergraduate students from Department of Turkish Language Teaching of Faculty of Education of Agri province and graduate students from Turkish…
Descriptors: Turkish, Figurative Language, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Chien, Chi-ying – English Language Teaching, 2019
The study of teaching translation has always been influenced by the theory of foreign language teaching, regardless of the theoretical or practical approaches the researchers used. In the classroom, students are frequently bored with translating grammar because they are seldom taught how grammar works. In view of this teaching gap, this study…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Erten, Ismail Hakki; Erten, Nesrin Bayraktar – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This study sought to understand how students in Turkish grammar classes at three state high schools in Turkey perceive their teachers and the classroom interaction. A total of 142 students were asked to form metaphorical expressions to describe their teachers. A total of 124 metaphors were produced, an examination of which revealed that almost…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Grammar, Student Attitudes
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Lin, Crystal Jia-yi – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2015
Idiom transparency refers to how speakers think the meaning of the individual words contributes to the figurative meaning of an idiom as a whole (Gibbs, Nayak, & Cutting, 1989). However, it is not clear how speakers or language learners form their assumptions about an idiom's transparency level. This study set out to discover whether there are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Callies, Marcus; Keller, Wolfram R. – Language Awareness, 2008
This paper reports on a study that examined a group of advanced German L2 learners' awareness and use of English focusing devices. Recent studies suggest that learners are aware of lexical resources, but lack awareness of grammatical structures. Focus constructions, i.e. pragmatically motivated word order variations, are pivotal to any text where…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Grammar