In the field of language education there are 4 basic skills that are essential in the process of teaching and learning. These are: reading, writing, listening and speaking. In many teaching methodology publications, all these skills are integrated in…
In this talk, I will summarise my main learning moments from a classroom research into the quality of my undergraduate students’ (n=50) participation in online platform discussions. I set up a Google Group as a non-compulsory ecomponent to my EFL…
It has been hypothesized that the cross-linguistic influence is one of the main reasons for the difficulties learners face while learning a second language or reaching academic learning outcomes. Therefore, we decided to conduct a study and find out…
In a letter to Constantine Curran, in July 1904, James Joyce wrote: „I am writing a series of epicleti – ten – for a paper ... I call the series Dubliners.“ The term epicleti has been interpreted as a misspelled form of “epiclesis”, the process of…
This talk presents ten proven and very useful activities for helping learners increase their vocabulary knowledge. In addition, reasons are given why these techniques were chosen to be in the top ten. These reasons relate to the five most important…
In this talk I will argue that our notion of linguistic competence needs to be revisited. Static depictions of the grammar of the target language are not suitable for informing research and language teaching. The fact is that language is dynamic, a…
The increasingly interdisciplinary nature of translation studies has multiplied theories of translation. A shared interest in a topic, however, is no guarantee that what is acceptable as a theory in one field or approach will satisfy the …
Word formation is a process of creating new words with some processes such as derivation, abbreviation, acronym, compounding, generified words, borrowing, and blending. In our always changing world it becomes a need for the languages to create new…
The subject of this research is based on the study of one of the most prominent morphological word-formation processes in the English language in animated films – the use of euphemisms. The need for the study comes from hypotheses that the language…
Learning a foreign language is a vital process during children’s acquisition process. They are affected physiologically and socially in their cognitive development. Turkey is a country where learning a second language and supplementary spending on…