Browsing Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences - Master's degree by Issue Date
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Factors that promote effective listening
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A Sociocultural investigation of speech acts (requests and apologies) in Turkish and Englih
(Bilkent University, 1991)This study investigates a number of differences between Turkish and English in the area of speech acts of requests and apologies and links them with different cultural norms and cultural assumptions, By comparing these ... -
A needs assessment of teachers and students from engineering and tourism departments for designing a communicative ELT curriculum
(Bilkent University, 1991)In this study it has been claimed that the English language curriculums should match the needs and expectations of the learners from the program. As curriculum designs are mostly planned by administrators and teachers, ... -
An Investigation of listening comprehension strategies in intermediate level Turkish EFL students
(Bilkent University, 1991)Listening comprehension is viewed as an active process in which individuals focus on selected aspects of aural input, construct meaning from passages, and relate what they hear to existing knowledge. This theoretical ... -
Strategies of EFL teachers and students in correcting and revising composition errors
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A study of EFL learners' monitor-use based on type of learning task and rule difficulty
(Bilkent University, 1991)The use of a learner's conscious knowledge, i.e. monitor in Krashen's term, has an important role in language acquisition- The use of this conscious knowledge is claimed to be influenced by the type of learning task ... -
An experimental study of the multiple-choice test technique for measuring reading comprehension of EFL students
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Influence of knowing another foreign language on learning English: does it increase the use of inferencing as a reading strategy and proficiency in reading and figuring vocabulary meanings from context?
(Bilkent University, 1991)This study aims to answer the following question; does knowing another foreign language increase reading comprehension and guessing vocabulary meanings from context as well as increasing the use of inferencing as a ... -
Matching learning and teaching styles in a Turkish EFL university classroom and its effect on foreign language development
(Bilkent University, 1991)The learning style movement, i^hich evolved from previous research on various theories in relation with individual learner differences such as personality trait, information processing, and aptitude-treatment interaction, ... -
The attitudes of EFL teachers and students towards the use of games in Turkish high schools and universities
(Bilkent University, 1991)The main concern of this study is to find out the attitudes of Turkish EFL teachers and the students towards the use of games in high school and universities. It is argued that games offer acquisition benefits, ... -
An experimental study of cloze and retelling for measuring reading comprehension of EFL students
(Bilkent University, 1991)Reading comprehension has traditionally been measured by multiple-choice tests. This study was done to find out whether it is possible to supplement this familiar and most popular reading comprehension test technique ... -
A suggested syllabus model for a course in developing reading skills with special reference to the ELT Department at Gazi University
(Bilkent University, 1991)The focus of this study is the development of a model syllabus for an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) reading course taught to first year students of the Gazi University ELT Department. First, the general background ... -
Needs assessment of medical students in ESP courses at Erciyes University
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The response of TL interbank rates to weekly money supply announcements within the framework of market efficiency
(Bilkent University, 1992)THE RESPONSE OF TL INTERBANK RATES TO WEEKLY MONEY SUPPLY ANNOUNCEMENTS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF MARKET EFFICIENCY In th is study,the effects of weekly money supply announcements on changes in TL interbank rates is tested ... -
A Comparative study of gender differences in English foreign language proficiency among Turkish university preparatory school learners
(Bilkent University, 1993)The purpose of this study was to investigate if female university preparatory school EFL learners have a significant quantitative advantage over males in general English foreign language proficiency, English reading ... -
A case study of six low-level Turkish EFL students' compositions written in English and Turkish
(Bilkent University, 1993)This synthetic/heuristic study attempted to analyze and describe the composing process in order to identify the factors affecting Turkish students' overall perfoemance and to come up with findings to improve the present ... -
Ecological threats and international cooperation for a common future : the case of ozone depletion
(Bilkent University, 1993)Ozone depletion is one of the global environmental problems which threaten human health and nature. However, what distinguishes ozone depletion from the other environmental problems is the fact that a stronger and ... -
Error analysis of tense and aspect in the written English of Turkish students
(Bilkent University, 1993)This study sought to identify the most common tense and aspect errors in the written English of native Turkish-speaking, first-year undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language. The study was based on error ...
