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Simsek, Zeynep Ceren; Isikoglu Erdogan, Nesrin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The purpose of this research study is to compare the effects of digital, dialogic and traditional reading on children's language development aged 48-66 months. Fifty-six randomly selected children enrolled in three different classrooms in a public preschool in Turkey participated in the study. The three classrooms were again randomly assigned as…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Dialogs (Language), Language Tests
Kivrak, Cansu; Gökmen, Dilek Uygun – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Knowing enough vocabulary is crucial for second language learners to comprehend and produce the language. Therefore, a substantial bulk of research has aimed at finding the most effective ways to acquire new words. The Task-induced Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001) states that vocabulary tasks are efficient when they induce…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Hazar, Esin – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Despite the ongoing attempts in Turkey to teach the English language to Turkish citizens so that they can communicate effectively in global contexts, the results reached are much lower than desired. To determine where the mistakes originate, different policies have been followed, course hours and instructional strategies have undergone constant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Educational Policy
Kilic, Mehmet – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2019
This paper reports on empirical research that endeavors to investigate the role of vocabulary knowledge in the writing and speaking performance of 54 B2 level Turkish learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The measured aspects of vocabulary knowledge (productive vocabulary size, receptive vocabulary size, and depth of vocabulary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary, Receptive Language
Kotaman, Huseyin – Reading Improvement, 2020
The current study assessed the impact of parents' dialogical storybook reading on their children's receptive vocabulary and reading attitudes. Forty parents and their preschoolers participated in the study. Parents were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. The experimental group received dialogical storybook reading training.…
Descriptors: Story Reading, Parent Child Relationship, Reading Attitudes, Receptive Language
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli; Göksun, Tilbe – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Before infants produce words, they can discriminate changes in motion event components such as manner (how an action is performed) and path (trajectory of an action). Individual differences in nonlinguistic event categorization are related to children's later verb comprehension (Konishi, Stahl, Golinkoff, & Hirsh-Pasek, 2016). We asked: (a) Do…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Ulum, Ömer Gökhan; Uzun, Kutay – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
GTM (Grammar Translation Method) is still the commonly utilized method in EFL classes in Turkish Education System. Based on a phenomenographic research design, this paper inquires the personal constructs of EFL state school teachers (n= 15) on the related issue. There in lies the major result in that non-native EFL teachers, who have learnt…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Yildiz, Merve; Atay, Derin – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
The present study highlights the significance of online self-regulated learning (SRL) in language education by investigating its impact on English as a foreign language (EFL) achievement. It focuses on the self-reported use of online SRL by focusing on six dimensions: goal-setting, structuring the environment, task strategies, time management,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Metacognition, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language)
Altinkaynak, Senay Özen – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of the current study is to determine the relationship between parental attitudes and children's receptive and expressive language skills. In the current study investigating the relationship between parental attitudes and children's expressive and receptive language skills, the relational survey model; one of the survey models, was…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Language Skills
Basal, Ahmet; Toraman, Muhammet; Celen, Kiymet Merve – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Learning collocations poses difficulties for foreign language learners despite their importance for fluency in the target language. Collocation learning and teaching should therefore be an integral part of foreign language instruction. With a focus on the receptive knowledge of collocations, this 5-week-long pretest/posttest quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Achievement Tests
Pistav-Akmese, Pelin; Sezgin, Destina; Ögüt, Fatih – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to compare the early literacy skills of children with cochlear implants with 60-72 months of preschool and/or special education to the results of children with normal hearing. For this purpose, the following questions were sought. In this study, "Demographic Form" containing the general information of volunteer…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
Guler Yildiz, Tulin; Gonen, Mubeccel; Ulker Erdem, Ayca; Garcia, Aileen; Raikes, Helen; Acar, Ibrahim H.; Burcak, Firdevs; Turan, Figen; Can Gul, Sadiye; Davis, Dawn – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examined the relations between receptive language development and other developmental domains of preschoolers from low-income families, through an inter-cultural perspective involving the United States and Turkey. A total of 471 children and their caregivers participated in Turkey, while 287 participated in the United States. Children's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Low Income
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1- Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in the main verb and path in a non-verbal element, whereas Turkish is a verb-framed language that conflates motion with path in the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Bilingualism, Turkish, Verbs
Çakmak, Ceren Tasatan; Merç, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Vocabulary has been accepted as an important aspect of language learning in many studies. In the light of these studies in literature, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the general and academic lexical competence and performance of preparatory class students at School of Foreign Languages, Kütahya Dumlupinar University. Within this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kirmizi, Özkan; Kömeç, Funda – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The aim of the present study was to measure the effect of the flipped classroom on vocabulary learning in terms of both receptive and productive vocabulary. To do this, a post-test experimental research design was implemented. The participants of the study are 58 high school students. The experimental group was exposed to a four-week flipped…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Blended Learning