TURKISH EFL LEARNERS’ METAPHORS WITH RESPECT TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSEBOOKS

 ACQUISITION SEQUENCE OF FOUR CATEGORIES OF NON-GENERIC USE OF THE ENGLISH DEFINITE ARTICLE THE BY TURKISH SPEAKERS

 In all languages there are linguistic forms that seem simple to acquire, but difficulty in their acquisition can be posed by their function, which might be too complex to understand. The definite article the...

EXPLORING THE LANGUAGE OF POEMS: A STYLISTIC STUDY

CHILDREN'S DEVELOPING AWARENESS OF THE COMPLEX MEANINGS OF THE "SLEEP VERBS"

This study aimed at examining the semantic acquisition of two sets of converse verbs associated with 'sleep': sleep-get up, fall asleep-wake up by Hebrew speaking children aged 2-12. It was hypothesized that the or...

ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA CONVERSATION WHILE WATCHING TV: OTHERING THROUGH EXPERTISE

English as a lingua franca studies (ELF) from a socio-interactional perspective have illustrated the subtle actions of interlocutors that highlight their “situated identities” (Zimmerman, 1998) in talk-in- intearaction....