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The topic of language learning has been one of the most prolific areas of research in ESL education in recent years. With the advent of the communicative approach in ESL education, greater responsibility has been placed on ESL learners for their…

The purpose of this study is to review the historical background of grammar instruction in ESL/EFL to find out its present status, and to suggest how to approach grammar instruction. Language teaching methodologists have not presented consistent…

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate governance and earning management. The data set covers 107 firms‘data listed on Istanbul Stock Exchange for the period 2006–2007. In the study, accrual is used as an…

Begining from the second half of the 1980s the concept of intrapreneurship found an intense interest in the academic and business fields. It is seen that numerous academic studies which are related with intrapreneurship have been done during that…

In this study, we aimed to explore the relationship between religiosity and business ethics. Two dimensions of religiosity – intrinsic an extrinsic- were studied. We mainly tested one hypothesis: whether ethical attitudes are affected by…

The aim of this study is to develop new strategies for sustainable development of a group and to establish a holding from several companies by considering the regulations in the World Trade, recent developments in textile sector and raising…

Increasing popularity of Internet led to expectation of course materials and activities to be distributed and collected online. Many universities have already started to support the courses with the technology. But most of them are still lack of a…

Numerical flexibility, which has been common since Atkinson (1984), can be defined as a situation where the number of staff and the number of hours worked can be increased or decreased depending on the demand for labour. Within the "flexible firm…

Materials are an indispensable component of education and teaching and used for supporting teaching during the teaching-learning process. Aids and materials are employed in an attempt to fulfill the objectives of the teaching process during…

Private investment plays a vital role to promote sustainable economic growth and to reduce poverty in developing countries. The idea of using private sector investments intensively to boost growth in Turkey has started to emerge after 1980s.…