This study aims to explore whether and how Turkish prospective teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) engage in English activities outside their undergraduate courses to improve their English language abilities and their reasons for doing…
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of instruction of concept mapping (CM) strategy as one of the metacognitive strategies on reading strategy utilization of Iranian EFL university students. Another purpose of the study was…
The aim of the paper is to point out the semantic aspects of some selected turcisms used in the linguistic system of contemporary Slovene. From a lessical corpus of loanwords of turkish origin, as classified in the two etymological dictionaries of…
This study investigates the representations that the English teachers from Minas Gerais state (Brazil) public schools have about deaf students’ educational inclusion into regular schools. The research objective is the teacher-subject’s discourse,…
The analysis proposed, although based on the Theory of Error Analysis (Corder 1960’s), tends to establish a different way of approaching language errors (Theodoropoulou & Papanastasiou: 2001, Theophanopoulou – Kontou: 2001, Christidis: 1987, Brown:…
Many children are now relatively proficient in general English by the time they reach secondary school and need something more than simple revision of what they have already learnt. Teaching other subjects through English provides a better…
One of the various purposes of the educational activities in schools is to develop and provide affective features of students. However, it is observed that affective domain is often neglected in the educational system practices (Reece and Walker,…
Proverbs are formulaic expressions that mirror the culture of a language (Hirsch et al. 2002) and it is said that every native speaker possesses ‘proverb competence’ (De Caro, 1978) which allows them to comprehend and employ those expressions where…
This research concerns the study of the perception of the importance of motivation in English language learning. It aims to find out how important students perceive the importance of motivational factors in arousing their motivation learn EL.…
During the course of their English language studies, many students are asked to learn various kinds of idiomatic expressions in English, ranging from phrasal verbs to idioms. While learners may be able to memorize the standard meanings of such…
