Hedging as a very crucial pragmatic-discourse device for the academic writers to be accepted by the academic discourse community has gained much attention among the academics and linguists researching hedges in scientific literature. To define it…
Technological developments present various opportunities to foreign language learners. On the other hand, teaching and learning a foreign language should not be solely based on a classroom teaching environment after witnessing such technological…
Language is used both as a means of communication as well as a carrier of culture. Language without culture is unthinkable, so is human culture without language (Wei, 2005). Moreover, linguistic competence alone is not enough for learners of a…
The current study aims to find out whether the use of visual aids in writing classes facilitates the path that learners go though while acquiring writing skills in L2. Although strategy training in writing has been proved to be effective in L2…
The aim of this research is to define the effects of various teaching methods (classic teaching, using realia , picture-drawing ) on learning, short and long-term recall of new L2 vocabulary. This experimental model research is used in this study.…
Teaching Turkish as foreign language is a new and rapidly developing area. Everyone agrees that teaching Turkish to cognate Turks and teaching Turkish to the foreigners of Turkish is different from each other in various aspects. Despite this…
Traditionally, academic discourse was denoted as objective, neutral, impersonal and lacking in subjective appraisal. However, in the last two decades pragmatically oriented research of academic discourse has offered a significantly different and a…
“Verb+preposition combination” refers to non-idiomatic constructions composed of a verb and a preposition such as look at, believe in, etc. The combinations investigated here are not phrasal verbs although they look like phrasal verbs in being…
In foreign language teaching in general, exercises must have a dominant position, since a large variety of exercises is a prerequisite for mastering any foreign language. All other processes in the classroom should have a subsidiary function, to…
The paper aims to examine the power of two major cognitive linguistic approaches to figurative language, the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Kövecses 2002) and the Conceptual Integration Theory (Fauconnier and Turner…
