This study tries to deal with the semantic prosody of the word pose. The term semantic prosody refers to the fact that lexical items, by nature, tend to occur with positive, negative, or neutral collocations. For example ...

This small-scale study tries to introduce and validate a linguistic theory and method, Latent Semantic Analysis. This method has been used in natural language processing for some time now; however, its potential in examining ...

This study tries to dwell on overuse of two discourse markers I think and in my opinion in Turkish EFL learners’ written productions. The data was collected from 161 Turkish EFL learners and a corpus of 58.046 words was ...

Although self-assessment of foreign language skills is not a new topic, it has not yet been widely explored in the Turkish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. The current study investigates the potential of ...

Abstract: This study aims to determine the possible relationships among foreign language vocabulary size, foreign language grammar proficiency, and critical thinking skills. To this end, 126 adult language learners ...

Son yıllarda, yabancı dil eğitimi bağlamında, dilbilgisinden çok sözcük bilgisinin ön plana çıkmaya başlaması başka tartışmaları da beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu tartışmalarda hem anadilde, hem de yabancı bir dil öğrenirken ...