Ömer Gökhan Ulum

How Do Different Groups Conceive Primary School English Language Education? A Sample of Cono Tribe

It is crystal clear that we can count several reasons to learn English language. People all over the world learn English as a second or foreign language. Authorities contain English language in their school syllabuses, and students begin learning it at a very young age. It is the language of science, technology, trade, diplomacy, and many other fields. Competency in using English enhances the possibility of having a good job in home country or abroad. It is simply the magic wand of several opportunities. However, how different groups like Cono tribe regard English is an intriguing issue that needs to be investigated. Considering all these dimensions, this study investigates the attitudes of a diverse group, in our case Cono tribe, towards the importance of English language education at early ages. Based upon a descriptive research design, an interview designed by the researchers was directed to the members of the mentioned group. The findings of the study bring diverse views of the studied group. Besides, the results obtained from this descriptive study may prove to be of some help for the researchers in the related research area.

A Study on the Morpho-syntactic Profiles of Syrian Children Learning Turkish as a Second Language

Having a multifaceted complex structure, language is a combination of a pile of mental states or thoughts which are transferred by means of shared rules or principles created on the grounds of phonology, morphology, and semantics. Language, being such a humanly and complicated formation, is highly in touch with a group of pertinent scientific zones like psychology and sociology, and this interaction may mirror the morpho-syntactic features of people. That is to say, selecting and forming any word, structuring a full sentence, and seeing the meaning of the sentence necessitate intricate rules or phases. With respect to this phenomenon, intricate mental or cognitive processes might be challenged in second language learning which means picking up the syntactic rules of a language and converting these rules into language skills. In this study, ten Syrian children, being educated in a primary school and owning different psychological schemas, as well as being not at similar ages, were inspected. The children were required to talk about the picture book Smile Please by Sanjiv Jaiswal “Sanjay” in Turkish language, and the narrations were audiotaped by the researchers. Being formed on a descriptive research design, the data were gathered and analyzed qualitatively. As a consequence of the study that checked the general morpho-syntactic profiles of Syrian children, both different and shared morpho-syntactic characteristics were found out.

A NEEDS ANALYSIS STUDY FOR PREPARATORY CLASS ELT STUDENTS

As the world today has become a global village with English as its primary language, the demand for English in different spheres of life is on the increase. The communicative role that English plays as the language of globalisation has resulted to its high demand in many spheres of human endeavours. In academia, many students are grossly deficient in English. Their deficiency cuts across the four Language skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing). This paper examined how English for Academic purposes can be utilized to enhance the students’ proficiency in English Language skills. It was based on the theory and Practice of ESP. The paper established that EAP as a branch of English for Specific Purposes caters for the needs of students based on their academic disciplines or courses of study rather than general English. As EAP is not taught based on preordained methodology, different suggestions on how EAP could be used to improve the students’ proficiency in English were made.