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Çetinavci, Ugur Recep – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020
In terms of their directness and modification strategies, this study investigated how undergraduate speakers of Turkish formulate their naturally occurring requests in an academic context, in which they request things from an academic in his office. After a 4-year data collection period, the researcher analyzed 395 of the requests (hand-recorded…
Descriptors: Turkish, Speech Acts, Undergraduate Students, Pragmatics
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Tasçi, Samet; Öztürk, Yusuf – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Post-predicate that clauses are one of the indicators of evaluative language which shows the attitude, position, and personal evaluation of the writers in academic discourse. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the distribution and frequently used controlling verbs of post-predicate that clauses controlled by verb (VTHAT) in academic…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Verbs
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Ates, N. Tayyibe; Ari, Gökhan – African Educational Research Journal, 2022
The purpose of this work is to determine how widely and in which semantic and morphologic categories, word associations are used by children. There is no study about word associations children use in the acquisition of Turkish as their mother tongue. Participants of the current research consisted of a total of 90 kids between 4.0 and 6.0 years of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Preschool Children, Nouns
Atar, Cihat – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigates how pre-service English teachers interrupt extended wait-time in English as a foreign language classroom contexts. Utilizing extended wait-time is an indicator of Classroom Interactional Competence, and thus it is an essential skill for efficient language teachers. In the literature, there are quite a few studies on how…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Güngör, Fatih; Uysal, Hacer Hande – English Language Teaching, 2016
In the recent years, globalization prepared a ground for English to be the lingua franca of the academia. Thus, most highly prestigious international journals have defined their medium of publications as English. However, even advanced language learners have difficulties in writing their research articles due to the lack of appropriate lexical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ucar, Serpil – English Language Teaching, 2017
The utilization of English recurrent word combinations--lexical bundles--play a fundamental role in academic prose (Karabacak & Qin, 2013). There has been highly limited research about comparing Turkish non-native and native English writers' use of lexical bundles in academic prose in terms of frequency, structure and functions of lexical…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Turkish