Hedayat Sarandi

Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University | ISZU · ELT

This study examines the role of recast frequency and its effectiveness in the acquisition of English articles in a computer-mediated context. Sixty-one pre-intermediate university language learners in Turkey were randomly divided into four main groups: high frequency recast (HF), low frequency recast (LF), test control, and task control groups. The...

This study aspires to unravel language learners’ beliefs about grammar instruction and oral corrective feedback (CF).Despite the existing general tendency, conflicting expectations of learners on several related issues underscored the need for more versatile teaching instruction, surgical treatment of learners’ errors and regular classroom discussi...

One of the major issues in SLA is developing language tests that could produce good measures of implicit knowledge. This study examines the validity of an English Elicited Imitation (EI) test as a measure of L2 implicit grammatical knowledge. Forty freshman university students in Turkey took a set of language tests: an EI test, two storytelling tas...

: This quasi-experimental study investigates the potential benefits of two types of corrective feedback strategies, explicit recasts and output-only prompts, on the acquisition of English third person ‘-s’. Thirty-six language learners in three intact classes from a university in Istanbul were assigned into two experimental groups and a control gro...

This study examines the effects of mixed oral corrective feedback (CF) on L2 learners’ oral production accuracy. Twenty-four EFL learners from two intact classes in a Turkish university participated in the study. The two classes were randomly assigned to be an experimental and a control group and completed five communicative tasks. The learners in...

This study examines elicited imitation (EI) both as a measure of implicit grammatical knowledge and more global semantic and syntactic knowledge. It also examines whether length affects the difficulty of EI tests when they contain both grammatical and ungrammatical items. Fifty language learners took an EI test and an oral narrative task. The data...

The present study examines Turkish instructors' perception with regard to the role of native language (L1) in language classes. It aims to discover whether these instructors advocate L1 support, and if so, what classroom functions they are likely to use L1 for. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through an open-ended questionnaire and...

This study examines the interaction effect of age in L2 attainment. It explores whether success in foreign language learning at early childhood grades varies depending on age. It also addresses the beliefs of foreign language teachers regarding the variables under review. Eighty-three 11 year-old language learners who started learning English at di...

The present research study aspires to discover the extent to which the provision of content related information assists language learners with their performance on post-lecture detailed listening comprehension questions. Twenty male and female adult university students at the upper intermediate level were randomly assigned into a control and experi...