Mehmet Asmalı

• PhD
• Instructor at Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University

Considering the significant role of English Language Teacher Education (ELTE) programs on future English teachers’ teaching skills and eventually on the English proficiency of future generations, the present study investigated some statistics concerning the academics and students of these programs. All the statistics were gathered from YÖK Atlas, a...

The chapter explores the impact of freewriting on university students' foreign language writing boredom and anxiety in online academic writing classes. Fifty-nine students majoring in English language teaching participated in the study. The equivalent time samples design was used in the study for 10 weeks during which the participants had a freewri...

Despite the abundance of studies investigating the impact of academic procrastination on several aspects of learning, less is known about how this construct is perceived by adolescent foreign language learners with different levels of academic procrastination and their reasons to delay tasks and potential suggestions to reduce it. This study was de...

Introduction: Motivation plays a central role in teachers’ instructional practices. Teaching quality and teacher effectiveness contribute positively to student achievement. In line with this, teachers face several tasks in their profession, and they exhibit various motivational levels consisting of different motivational constructs, such as intrins...

Welcoming more than 1.7 million refugee and asylum-seeker children, Turkey has put a considerable effort in turning this tragedy into an advantage for these children in terms of their education. Language teaching has played a remarkable role in this effort. Turkey has offered both Turkish and English language courses to these people. Considering th...

This study investigated two groups of students' attitudes and motivation towards ESP and ESP course-related needs in the field of tourism. The groups comprised the first-year students taking the General English (GE) course and the second-year ones who had completed their summer internships and started taking the ESP course. The instructor of the co...

Considering recent advancement of technology and increased video use in language teaching and learning, this study attempted to investigate main findings of the studies conducted to examine the impact of video use on learners’ listening skill and vocabulary development in English language teaching (ELT). In this regard, 51 articles published betwee...

Qualifications of language teachers affect their students' language development and proficiency. Turkish learners' low performance in international English proficiency indices requires an investigation of the qualifications of language teachers from a critical point of view. Without doubt, one of the crucial qualifications that language teachers ne...

English language teaching (henceforth ELT) has always been criticized due to the performance of Turkey in global English proficiency indices and students’ lack of speaking ability. Despite several attempts to change language teaching programs, it cannot be claimed that the situation has transformed. ELT programs and students studying in these progr...

Foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) adversely affects learners' performance in foreign language classes. The related literature focuses on the relationship between FLCA and learners' achievement or its potential sources. Considering the possibility of students' having different levels of FLCA in classes, this study was designed to find out wh...

This study examines the impact of 'Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling' (TPRS) on students' grammar and vocabulary performance as well as their attitude toward learning English. The participants are 38 freshmen, 14 in experimental and 24 in control group, studying in the department of tourism and hospitality services of a 2-year v...

Foreign language anxiety has already been reported to deteriorate learners' language learning performance. It is closely related to how learners perceive their communication performance in the target language and how tolerant they are when they face ambiguities in foreign language learning. Therefore, the current study investigated learners' foreig...

This paper presented the results of an experimental study investigating the impact of clicker use through a smart phone application called Kahoot!. Despite positive results of clicker use in the existing General English literature, the impact of clicker use has not been examined in the field of ESP. To address this issue, this study investigated th...

Due to unsatisfactory number of researches investigating ELT post-graduate programs, and perceptions of academics and students in these programs regarding mediation theory of Feuerstein, this study attempted to investigate the aspects of this theory in doctorate and master programs in ELT department of a state university. Methodologically, this stu...

The purpose of this study is to understand university preparatory class students' mental images about their English language instructors through metaphors. With regard to this aim, 148 students enrolled in 16 different programs were required to write metaphors on the metaphor elicitation task including the statement "my English instructor is like.

Millions of refugees have recently migrated to Turkey with the start of the crisis in their countries. As education is one of the most crucial factors shaping the future of these refugees, studies are needed in this respect to reflect their current needs and problems in the host countries. From this point of view, this paper aimed to explore the vi...

This study investigated 24 in-service English teachers’ conceptions about ‘learning’ and ‘learner’ through metaphor analysis. A metaphor elicitation task including the statements “Learning English is like …………… because…………………..” and “An English language learner is like …………… because…………………..” was used to gather data. Results showed that the teacher...

Metaphors reflect the way people think and know the world. When they are considered within teaching profession, they can be strong agents revealing teachers’ beliefs about their profession. They may also explore the meaning that teachers attach to themselves. Despite their strength to shed light on how teachers conceptualize themselves, the number...

This study investigated Big Five Personality Traits and test anxiety of Turkish EFL learners. The data were gathered via two questionnaires, Goldberg’s (2001) International Personality Item Pool and adapted version of Sarason's (1984) Test Anxiety Scale. The main objectives were to find out participants' test anxiety and to identify personality tra...

According to recent modifications in Turkish educational system, English language teaching starts in the second grade. Young learners studying in this grade were in the focus in this study. This paper reported on the findings of a mixed method study conducted in three different primary schools in the west of Turkey. The main aim was to represent th...

In this paper, we reviewed the game-based student response systems such as Kahoot, Quizizz, Socrative, Quizalize, and Peardeck. We compared these systems with regard to their popularity, usability, simplicity, effectiveness, and reporting functions. Although they are very similar technologies, there are some significant differences among them. Thes...

This study examines the effects of the Synectics Model on vocabulary learning,attitude and desire to learn English. The research group is composed of secondary state school senior students in Turkey. A total of 41 participants, 21 in the control and 20 in the experimental group took part in this study. Two pre-tests, a post-test and a delayed-post-...

Willingness to communicate and its antecedents were investigated through a structural model with the participation of 251 freshmen studying at a state university in Turkey. Quantitative data were analyzed via Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling. According to the results, all hypotheses were accepted which means participants' attitude...

This study investigated teacher educators' perspectives of having a mediator role in master and doctorate programs in ELT department and their perspectives regarding three universal aspects of mediation theory. In order to gather data, semi-structured personal interviews were conducted with four teacher educators. This study employed a qualitative...

The present study attempts to offer a small-scale investigation of the willingness to communicate and its key antecedents, namely the self-perceived communication competence and the communication apprehension in Turkish and Romanian contexts. A total of 130 participants took part in this quantitative approach based study. The data suggested signifi...

Problem Statement: The studies based on the relationships between personality and language learning strategies have produced inconsistent results. There have been very few number of studies conducted to find the relationships between personality and language learning strategies. In addition to this, there have been few second language studies based...

The present study is a research into the apology strategy preference and appropriateness of the use of apology speech act of Turkish, Polish and Latvian final year English Language Teaching undergraduate learners in English. The main objective of the study is to find out whether the apology speech act productions of the three groups show difference...

Although the number of pragmatics-based studies has increased recently, the comparison of speech act performances of non-native speakers of English is an under-researched area. The present study was conducted to bridge this gap by comparing the refusal responses of Turkish, Polish and Latvian pre-service English teachers in terms of the strategies...