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Gazi University · Department of Foreign Languages

This study aimed to investigate what factors affected pre-service EFL teachers’ entry motivations into the teaching profession and whether they differed across their grades. In the study, which adopted a quantitative approach, data were collected from 212 pre-service EFL teachers at a state university through the FIT-Choice Scale. The data were ana...

This review aimed to go over the research conducted in L2 teacher motivation with a concentration on the journal articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals. As a result of the thorough inspection of the articles selected with certain criteria in mind, various themes have emerged. Firstly, the overwhelming majority of L2 teacher motivatio...

In the age of globalization and changing paradigms, nothing but the need for better education remains constant. Policy makers try to achieve the ultimate goal of better education with ever-changing and evolving reforms they put into practice. Turkey is no different from other countries in that sense. Second language teacher education is one of the...

This study set out to find out to what extent English language learners at TOBB University of Economics and Technology Preparatory School in Ankara, Turkey can perform strategies of three specific speech acts, i.e. requests, refusals and complaints and to check these speech acts in the coursebooks used. Data was collected from 90 students with a di...