Idioms are groups of words in a proper order that have a specific meaning bearing difference from the meanings and connotations of each word understood on its own. They are crucial elements of a language and it is difficult to imagine a language…
The use of emerging technologies in and out of the classroom is changing the ways in which we interact with our students. Using different tools is key to interacting with students in new ways and this is especially relevant when trying to reach out…
Yabancı dil öğretimi sözlükle başlar. Yabancı dil öğretiminin temelinde sözlükler yatmaktadır. Eski çağlarda yazılan sözlükler hep dil öğretim amacıyla yazılmıştır. Dillerde bulunan sözcüklerin anlam ve kavram kapsamları onlarda kayıt altına…
Author:GÜRSOY, Aynur
Soho, Loredana
ÇETİN, Mustafa
Leaving aside the subsidiary discussions about specific distinctions between ESL and EFL in literature, ESL as a learning situation in which the learner has a chance to be exposed to the language outside the class stands out more advantageous than…
The aim of this study is to examine the role of ambiguity tolerance and emotional intelligence in listening comprehension of second language learners. Sixty freshman students who are majoring in English teaching in Arak University are chosen. Oxford…
Author:Ghofrani Esfahani, Mina
Shahsavan, Azam
Hosseini Kazemizad, Neda
The study compared the relative frequency of the Language Related Episodes (LREs) in the pair talk data of homogenous and heterogeneous pairs of English learners and investigated the effect of two types of dyadic interaction on the learners’ writing…
Despite Bardovi-Harlig (1999) calling for the inclusion of more diversified naturalistic data collection methods in the study of interlanguage discourse, studies on the production of L2 speech acts still rely heavily on experimental data.…
In the language acquisition, especially EFL learners feel themselves quite unattained to native-speaker performance in learning words in the target language although they are exposed to the formal education for years. The fact that they are deprived…
Reading is of great importance in basic linguistic knowledge acquisition and English language learning. However, there is a big challenge for teachers to create new and engaging tasks for reading classes. The aim of this workshop is to illustrate…
The purpose of this paper is to understand, from a psycholinguistics approach, how a foreign language may be understood at least partly on the basis of knowledge of one’s native language and perhaps on other languages one has previously learnt. An…
