This study aims to investigate whether there is a discrepancy between local coursebooks and international coursebooks in terms of the extent to which they comply with the model of communicative competence depicted in the Turkish foreign language curriculum. Speaking activities in two selected 9th grade English language coursebooks were classified…

The study aimed to determine the metaphorical perceptions of Science High School students about the concept of "English", and to scrutinize the influence of their class level on the metaphors they produce. The participants of the study comprised 211 students at a Science High School in a district of Burdur province in Turkey. In the…

The present study aims at investigating the tension between Keyword methods of teaching to root analysis in teaching EFL students' vocabulary recalling. Since the design of the study is quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test, two intact groups that comprised a total of 80 students participated in the study. Grade 11 section 'C' Students (n=40)…

Error correction has a significant place in language teaching classrooms since language learning involves some kind of a trial and error process during which learners test their language related hypotheses. The present study sought to examine the effects of a grammar error correction session on 64 eleventh grade high school students' success in a…

Language for specific purposes reveals some specificities quite complex to grasp and make use of, if not an explicit knowledge and an appropriate approach to the situation at hand is devoted to its teaching. This is why, it has been the study that goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and from its earliest days has caught the…