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Terzioglu, Yildiz; Bensen Bostanci, Hanife – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study aims to shed light on analyzing the types and the frequency of the written sentence errors committed by 58 tenth grade Turkish Cypriot English as a foreign language (EFL) students in two classrooms, that is, Class A and B at a public vocational high school in North Cyprus. A quasi-experimental design was employed in the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Polat Köseoglu, Meryem – TESOL Journal, 2021
This study investigated the interactive function of teacher-written feedback. To this end, 10 students from two English toward proficiency (ETP) classes in a private university in North Cyprus were asked to engage in "a letter to my teacher" (ALMT) activity during the feedback-revision process in the course of their study. Moreover, the…
Descriptors: Interaction, Feedback (Response), Written Language, Second Language Learning
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Karatsareas, Petros – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
I explore the ways in which language ideologies are transformed when they are transplanted to diasporic settings as a result of migration. I examine the labelling of Cypriot Greek features as "slang" by young British-born speakers of Greek Cypriot heritage. Drawing on the analysis of data collected in a Greek complementary school in…
Descriptors: Greek, Nonstandard Dialects, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Pampoulou, Eliada – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2016
A growing number of research projects show that graphic symbols with linguistic characteristics are one of the tools that professionals use in order to support pupils in inclusive school settings. However, there is scant literature investigating the collaboration between professionals who use these symbols in these settings and, hence, this…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Semi Structured Interviews, Observation, Surveys
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Leivada, Evelina; Kambanaros, Maria; Taxitari, Loukia; Grohmann, Kleanthes K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
The present study examines whether bilectal Greek Cypriot educators are able to identify dialectal (Cypriot Greek) elements superimposed on the standard language (Standard Modern Greek) in a written variety-judgment task. By doing so, (meta)linguistic skills of bilectal teachers from Cyprus were put to the test and later compared to the results of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Greek, Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage
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Yiakoumetti, Androula – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
The issue of dialect and education and, in particular, the issue of which code to use as the medium of instruction has generated much heated debate in bidialectal societies. This debate is reflected in the literature on language policy in education which is divided into three main areas: (i) the use of the standard variety as medium of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Dialects, Language Planning