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It is widely believed that learning second language at all educational levels, especially at the university level, can be made more successful with the Managements' Support Informational Technology (IT) Usage While Learning Second Language. IT usage…

Why are students of English so reluctant to use the passive voice? The answer to this question may lie in the fact that students find it artificial, even pretentious, partly because it really does tend to be overtly wordy and cumbersome. Moreover, a…

Oğuz Atay, regarded as one of the first surrealist authors of Turkish literature, is the pioneer creator of modernist novels of Turkey. He brings a marginal point of view and style in 1970’s, he started to write his works under the light of unusual…

Living in a world that has become a 'global village' makes different nations seem very similar - we dress in a very similar way, we listen to the similar music, we sometimes even use the same words. But how similar are we when it comes to…

This paper reports on a large-scale study on learner autonomy in literature circles carried out with students and English instructors at Meliksah University in Turkey. The purpose of the study is to research how students attending Meliksah University…

The entire history of the "Entdeckungsreisen' in the 15th and the 16th Century is a history of the conquered and the conquerer. With historical evidences of the various European nations ruling over the 'other' nations, comes a corpus of texts which…

In foreign language teaching can be used appropriate texts. What are “appropriate texts” .in parallel to the velocity and multifunctionality, they are given importance especially in modern technology. Since they are short and multifunctional, in this…

As is well-known the concept of the Absurd is an off-shoot of Existentialism which was born in the 19th century and reached almost global acceptability in the early 20th century thanks to the works of Kafka, Camus, Sartre and the Absurd playwrights…

The dilemma of language teacher education at university level lies in how best to balance the educational philosophies and theories with the practicalities of the methods and techniques. The question of the students’/trainees’ linguistic ability to…

The aim of this paper is to address the issue of linguistic competence versus translation competence seen from a pedagogical perspective. I will start by reviewing the well-known distinction between competence and performance and their …