The 21st-century classroom is an increasingly changeable environment in which teachers are required to update their knowledge and skills constantly. However, professional development opportunities that are available to teachers are more often than…
Ted Hughes in his essay “Poetry in the Making” states that poems are a “mysterious they” which present the reader with a special knowledge that “we are very curious to learn”. Poetry, in this respect, should continue its existence whether or not it…
Ashik Feyman, one of the living Ashiks, is one of the important Ashiks in nowadays. Ashik Feymani, born in Çukurova, has a significant role in Ashik Literature and Ashiklik Tradition. Ashik Feymani has poems about the subjects of love, social,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
