Cem Can

• Professor
• Cukurova University

The study aims to reveal the errors of Portuguese EFL learners who took PET, PETfS, KET, KETfS, FCE, FCEfS, CAE exams using corpus-based error analysis tools available on SketchEngine platform and classifying them according to the A2-C2 language proficiency levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Council of Europe, 2001)...

Bölümü tarafından oluşturulan ve gerçekleştirilen bir dizi dil yeterlilik sınavından oluşmaktadır. Dört dil becerisini A1-C2 yeterlilik ölçütlerini temel alarak değerlendirmektedir. Çalış-manın ana veri tabanını oluşturan Cambridge Öğrenci Der-lemi (Cambridge Learner Corpus-CLC), kurumun hazırladığı tüm yabancı dil olarak İngilizce sınavlarına gire...

Cambridge ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Sınavları, Cambridge Üniversitesi İngiliz Dili Değerlendirme Bölümü tarafından oluşturulan ve gerçekleştirilen bir dizi dil yeterlilik sınavından oluşmaktadır. Dört dil becerisini A1-C2 yeterlilik ölçütlerini temel alarak değerlendirmektedir. Çalışmanın ana veri tabanını oluşturan Cambridge Ö...

This qualitative study presents a corpus literacy course designed and implemented at an undergraduate language teacher education program in Turkey, and its evaluation by pre-service ELT teachers. The course introduces the main concepts of corpus linguistics, raises future teachers’ linguistic and pedagogical awareness through corpus applications, a...

We, as editors, are pleased to introduce this book, which serves as a scholarly platform for a collection of research papers exploring the significance of Language Teacher Psychology and emphasizing the crucial role of teachers. The study of language teacher psychology delves into the psychological factors that impact the teaching and learning of a...

This volume is a collection of papers presented at 18th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics (ICTL) held every two years since 1982 both in Turkey and abroad interchangably. ICTL has been a valuable forum for the researchers studying Turkish and Turkic Languages to share their experiences with their colleagues both in their presentations...

This book aims to be more than a series of accounts of diverse views and approaches to Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching. It aspires to cover a vast range of topics pertaining to contemporary means and methods of ELT and language studies, in alignment with the thematic areas of the annual Language in Focus International Conferences....

This book aims to be more than a series of accounts of diverse views and approaches to Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching. It aspires to cover a vast range of topics pertaining to contemporary means and methods of ELT and language studies. The authors, whose work is presented in the present edited publication, have conducted original...

Loosely attached to other syntactic elements in an utterance, pragmatic markers (PM) are one of the most frequented pragmatic elements that fulfill various functions. Among a great number of PMs encountered in daily conversations, I think is one of the most prevalent PMs in native speaker and non-native speaker discourse. Thus, the purpose of this...

This study attempts to investigate the use of adverbial connectors of Turkish learners in their argumentative essays. The aim is to examine similarities and/or differences between native speakers of English and English as a foreign language learners from various mother tongue backrounds, whether there are common interlanguage properties across EFL...

This paper illustrates the use of learner corpus data (extracted from Cambridge Learner Corpus – CLC) to carry out an error analysis to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of types and tokens as well as contexts in which they regularly occur across four distinct proficiency levels, B1-B2; C1-C2, as defined...

The authorial stance in academic genres is conveyed with the use of linguistic conventions of disciplines, one of which is metadiscourse. The aim of this study was to compare the use of interactional metadiscourse features (IMDMs) by native academic authors of English (NAAEs) and Turkish-speaking academic authors of English (TAAEs) for the construa...

As learner corpora have presently become readily accessible, it is practicable to examine interlanguage errors and carry out error analysis (EA) on learner-generated texts. The data available in a learner corpus enable researchers to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of types and tokens as well as contex...

Applied Linguistics is a field of academic enquiry that deals with the theoretical and empirical investigation of real issues in which LANGUAGE IS IN FOCUS. These issues range from aspects of linguistics, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, foreign language learning / teaching, bilingual education / CLIL, multilingua...

The issues investigated in this paper revolve around the use of there constructions taken from the following written corpora: the International Corpus of Learner English (the Turkish and Polish component of ICLE) and the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays (LOCNESS). The focus of this presentation is to analyse there constructions from the pers...

The article discusses the role of the CLIL Austrian, Polish, Turkish and Dutch learner in understanding the motivation to learn subjects through a foreign language. Motivation is an important affective variable to consider in the CLIL classroom, especially when pupils originate from different historical and economical backgrounds. In order to deter...

Social competencies can be defined as the capabilities enabling individuals " to live together in the world " (Arendt, 1958) and they comprise aspects of inter-personal, intercultural, social and civic competencies. They are conceptualized differently in different disciplines even then no consensus exists on their definition (cf. Schoon, 2009). In...

The academic language has certain features that do not occur in typical informal interaction about everyday things. The texts studied and produced in academic disciplines have different functions, and are structured in different ways. The linguistic features play an important role in the realization of different types of meanings. Some are importan...

Abstrakt The aim of this paper is to characterize early experiences of future teachers of English in Polish and Turkish contexts; describe their emotions and attitudes as well as analyze their evaluations of the past situations. When a foreign language learner becomes a foreign language teacher…, firstly s/he has to transform from a FL student to...

Since the introduction of computers into education in the 1960s their potential for education has been recognized by researchers, policymakers and practitioners. However, the rapid and seemingly constant evolution of digital technology means that teachers face the problems of keeping pace with the technological changes within society, identifying w...

ELT teacher education has traditionally been based on the development of a repertoire of teaching skills, acquired through methodology courses at ELT Departments, observing experienced teachers and practice-teaching in a controlled setting as in micro-teaching or peer-teaching. However, the programs focusing on such kind of teacher training seem to...