This study aims at contributing to the development of language teacher education programmes in Turkey by integrating Conversation Analysis into the current curriculum. This short paper will argue for the use of digital ...

This study explores patterns of intra-sentential and inter-sentential code-switching (CS) that are manifest in the speech of Turkish-English bilinguals in New York City, U.S. and investigates the influence of language ...

Researchers have found that teaching reading strategies is a key element in developing student comprehension. However, many teachers lack a solid foundation for teaching these reading comprehension strategies. Therefore, ...

Recent research shows that negotiation of meaning in online task-oriented interactions can be a catalyst for L2 (second/foreign/additional language) development. However, how learners undertake such negotiation work and ...

The present study has been carried out in order to determine professional targets of M. A. ELT program students, the factors that are influential in deciding to start M. A. ELT studies, and the ones that are influential ...

The present study examined the association between English Language Teaching (ELT) freshman student's educational aspirations and factors that influence these aspirations. A sample of 400 male (N=250) and female (N=150) ...

The present study examined perceived social support based on the theoretical model of Weiss (1974) who offers six provisions reflecting what we receive from relationships with other people. A total of 386 Iranian (N=230) ...

This paper addresses images of the everyday reality in T.C. Boyle's collection After the Plague as symbols of postmodern era. I argue that references and allusions to numerous everyday objects provided in Boyle's stories ...

In the past decade there has been a surge of research interest in morphological awareness (MA), which refers to an individual's ability to decode the morphemic structure of words and further analyze them. This review gives ...

In the recent decades individual differences in learning has become important in EFL/ESL classes. Generally, the main concern in EFL/ESL classes is to analyze the students. It is for this reason that most of the studies ...