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This study investigates five-year-old learners' vocabulary retention through case studies, on a o... more This study investigates five-year-old learners' vocabulary retention through case studies, on a one week, one month, three months, and five months basis. It concerns the vocabulary learning of kindergarten children learning English as a second language (L2). This study attempts to seek answers to the questions of to what extent the presentation of the three different sets of words more effective than the other two is, both on recall and recognition and whether the recall and recognition levels showed differences in the three sets of words in course of time. In the literature, some studies have favoured semantic mapping in which new words are presented and organized in terms of associated lexical meanings. Some other studies have disfavoured semantic mapping. This study has administered three different sets of vocabulary: semantically related, cognates and semantically unrelated words. This study indicated that all participants were more successful with semantically related words on word recall and with cognates on word recognition. The results of this study do not support those which claim that making semantic associations may cause interference and hinder vocabulary learning. This study further suggests that semantically related words should be taught thematically to facilitate vocabulary teaching, particularly on word recall.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2012
This paper examines pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish... more This paper examines pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish Universities. A total of 90 pre-service English teachers, 57 of whom were studying at Muğla University and 33 of whom were studying at Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey, were involved in this study. The research participants completed two questionnaires. The aim of this paper is to look into pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar and its teaching as well as their knowledge on the metalanguage of grammar. The findings reveal that although a great majority of the participants favour the use of metalanguage in teaching grammar, and support the deductive grammar teaching practises, they themselves still have serious problems even with the most basic grammatical terminology.
There are many people in Poland at present, who are interested in the Turkish language. There are... more There are many people in Poland at present, who are interested in the Turkish language. There are professionals who are interested in Turkish culture, politics, and literature. The need to know a foreign language is a must and a fact that is inevitable. The teaching of Turkish in Poland is recognised by such institutes as the University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Recently, private tutoring has become more and more common. This is a study of the views of Turkish language instructors who have been working in Poland for many years and, who are experienced in the teaching of Turkish.
This study examines a group of Turkish University students' responses to some short stories in En... more This study examines a group of Turkish University students' responses to some short stories in English. The group consisted of nine participants-nine sophomores studying at Muğla Unversity in Turkey. The participants took upper-intermediate English, and this study was carried out during their upper intermediate classes. For the first week the participants were given a text and they discussed it with their teacher but for the second and the third week they read the stories with another teacher and at the end of a three week short story reading period, they were asked to fill in a questionnaire and they were interviewed. The interviews and the questionnaire indicated that the students had positive attitudes to short story reading and they stated that short story reading contributed to their reading comprehension. They also found short story reading very useful for the fact that it enhanced their reading; the texts did not bore them as they were not too long and they also formed a cultural understanding.
This paper examines pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish... more This paper examines pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish Universities. A total of 90 pre-service English teachers, 57 of whom were studying at Muğla University and 33 of whom were studying at Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey, were involved in this study. The research participants completed two questionnaires. The aim of this paper is to look into pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar and its teaching as well as their knowledge on the metalanguage of grammar. The findings reveal that although a great majority of the participants favour the use of metalanguage in teaching grammar, and support the deductive grammar teaching practises, they themselves still have serious problems even with the most basic grammatical terminology.
This study investigates five-year-old learners' vocabulary retention through case studies, on a o... more This study investigates five-year-old learners' vocabulary retention through case studies, on a one week, one month, three months, and five months basis. It concerns the vocabulary learning of kindergarten children learning English as a second language (L2). This study attempts to seek answers to the questions of to what extent the presentation of the three different sets of words more effective than the other two is, both on recall and recognition and whether the recall and recognition levels showed differences in the three sets of words in course of time. In the literature, some studies have favoured semantic mapping in which new words are presented and organized in terms of associated lexical meanings. Some other studies have disfavoured semantic mapping. This study has administered three different sets of vocabulary: semantically related, cognates and semantically unrelated words. This study indicated that all participants were more successful with semantically related words on word recall and with cognates on word recognition. The results of this study do not support those which claim that making semantic associations may cause interference and hinder vocabulary learning. This study further suggests that semantically related words should be taught thematically to facilitate vocabulary teaching, particularly on word recall.
International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 2012
This paper examines pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish... more This paper examines pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish Universities. A total of 90 pre-service English teachers, 57 of whom were studying at Muğla University and 33 of whom were studying at Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey, were involved in this study. The research participants completed two questionnaires. The aim of this paper is to look into pre-service English teachers' beliefs towards grammar and its teaching as well as their knowledge on the metalanguage of grammar. The findings reveal that although a great majority of the participants favour the use of metalanguage in teaching grammar, and support the deductive grammar teaching practises, they themselves still have serious problems even with the most basic grammatical terminology.
There are many people in Poland at present, who are interested in the Turkish language. There are... more There are many people in Poland at present, who are interested in the Turkish language. There are professionals who are interested in Turkish culture, politics, and literature. The need to know a foreign language is a must and a fact that is inevitable. The teaching of Turkish in Poland is recognised by such institutes as the University of Warsaw, the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Recently, private tutoring has become more and more common. This is a study of the views of Turkish language instructors who have been working in Poland for many years and, who are experienced in the teaching of Turkish.
This study examines a group of Turkish University students' responses to some short stories in En... more This study examines a group of Turkish University students' responses to some short stories in English. The group consisted of nine participants-nine sophomores studying at Muğla Unversity in Turkey. The participants took upper-intermediate English, and this study was carried out during their upper intermediate classes. For the first week the participants were given a text and they discussed it with their teacher but for the second and the third week they read the stories with another teacher and at the end of a three week short story reading period, they were asked to fill in a questionnaire and they were interviewed. The interviews and the questionnaire indicated that the students had positive attitudes to short story reading and they stated that short story reading contributed to their reading comprehension. They also found short story reading very useful for the fact that it enhanced their reading; the texts did not bore them as they were not too long and they also formed a cultural understanding.
This paper examines pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish... more This paper examines pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar studying at two Turkish Universities. A total of 90 pre-service English teachers, 57 of whom were studying at Muğla University and 33 of whom were studying at Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey, were involved in this study. The research participants completed two questionnaires. The aim of this paper is to look into pre-service English teachers’ beliefs towards grammar and its teaching as well as their knowledge on the metalanguage of grammar. The findings reveal that although a great majority of the participants favour the use of metalanguage in teaching grammar, and support the deductive grammar teaching practises, they themselves still have serious problems even with the most basic grammatical terminology.