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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
Most of us have read Dale Carnegie's classic "How to make friends and influence people" in which he reveals the secret of human psychology: giving people the "feeling of importance" that they seek. He claims in that work that people feel more friendly toward those who allows them this feeling by caring about them and showing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Workers, Teachers, Pronunciation
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
Bayburt University's English Language Teaching (ELT) department, is starting its courses as of 2016 fall season, using the Turkish sage Dede Korkut's tales as part of its speech training curriculum. The story "Wild Dumrul" presented in this article is famous in world literature for its theme of "marital love and sacrifice."…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2017
The main cause of pronunciation problems faced by EFL learners is their lack of a suprasegmental background. Most of those having oral comprehension and expression difficulties are unaware that their difficulty comes from their negligence of concepts of stress, pitch, juncture and linkers. While remedying stress problems, students should be taught…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
An ability for a speaker to unite (link) words or to separate (break, juncture) them with a pause in his utterance gives him a special advantage to convey his intended meaning to his audience. If he knows where to unite his words and where to pause between them in speech he is better able to communicate with his listeners, and his words are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Oral Language, Suprasegmentals
Tezel, Kadir Vefa – Online Submission, 2016
Foreign language teachers use the spoken form of the target language when they teach. One of their professional responsibilities while teaching is to form a good model of pronunciation for their students. In Turkey, English is the primary foreign language taught in all educational institutions. Prospective English teachers in the English Teacher…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The Oghuz Turks being in existence for many a millenia in Central Asia has a rich cultural heritage conveyed from generation to generation through oral tradition. The "Book of Dede Korkut" discovered in 1815 in Dresden Royal Library by H. F. von Diez sheds light to an important part of that culture. That precious historic literary…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Turkish, Turkic Languages, Books
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The greatest difficulty in reading Arabic script for nonnatives is the absence of short vowels. The correlation of 28 consonants with sounds poses no great difficulty. In Arabic, there are six vowel phonemes which are voiced only by three letters with help of some relevant diacritical marks (?arakat). As the bulk of Arabic publications is written…
Descriptors: Translation, Semitic Languages, Vowels, Islam
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Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The greatest difficulty in reading Arabic script for nonnatives has long been considered as the absence of short vowels, however there is more to be dealt with. While the correlation of 28 Arabic consonants pose no great difficulty in deciphering the script, the six vowel phonemes voiced only by three letters even with help of some relevant…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Written Language, Islam, Muslims
Gafoor, Abdul K.; Remia, K. R. – Online Submission, 2013
In spite of the general agreement that spelling difficulties if monitored and identified early during the schooling will help in giving appropriate support, teachers and teacher-educators using Indian languages including Malayalam, while discussing language difficulties refer more to errors from English than from their mother tongue. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dravidian Languages, Spelling, Error Patterns
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2015
Every language has its own rhythm. Unlike many other languages in the world, English depends on the correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed or weakened syllables recurring in the same phrase or sentence. Mastering the rhythm of English makes speaking more effective. Experiments have shown that we tend to hear speech as more rhythmical…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Syllables, Grammar, Phonology
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2013
Junctures are pauses used in speech separating thought-groups from one another in order to give the listener time to digest the utterance to signal the end. Where junctures are present, hearers find it easier to understand what is said as they are able to discern the individual words between such verbal breaks. Junctures being universal…
Descriptors: French, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kariuki, Patrick; Baxter, Andrew – Online Submission, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between prosodic oral reading and overall reading comprehension of second grade students. The sample consisted of ten students who were randomly selected from a second grade classroom. The students read aloud from the book "Bedtime for Frances" by Lillian and Russell Hoban for a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Reading, Grade 2, Suprasegmentals
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2012
Suprasegmental elements such as "stress," "pitch," "juncture" and "linkers" are language universals that are uttered naturally in the mother tongue without prior training but need to be learned systematically in the target language. Among other techniques of "sentential pronunciation teaching" to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Sentences
Gafoor, K. Abdul – Online Submission, 2014
Design of a screening test for identifying reading difficult students in Malayalam and validation thereof among boys is made to help schools proactively intervene with such students. A battery of tests developed based on extant literature on screening tests, reviewed difficulties in reading Malayalam, and discrimination power of the draft tests is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dravidian Languages, Screening Tests, Reading Tests
Al-Najjar, Rana Abdel-Rahman – Online Submission, 2012
Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate pronunciation teaching with regard to an EFL multi-skills textbook ("English for Palestine 10"). The evaluation was intended to identify the extent to which pronunciation teaching content incorporated in" English for Palestine 10," in addition to the related teachers' competency level match…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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