A Corpus-based Error Analysis of Turkish Learners and the English Verb Phrase
A Corpus-based Error Analysis of Turkish Learners and the English Verb Phrase

Author: Seda Evirgen

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2019-01-08

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 3668860831

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, language: English, abstract: In the thesis at hand, a special emphasis will be on Turkish English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ errors and their difficulties when learning English as a second language. Further, it will provide interpretative approaches regarding the reasons for this. The errors that will be analyzed are subject-verb-agreement errors in different subcategories in Turkish EFL students’ writings in the form of argumentative essays. Furthermore, the essays are analyzed for incorrect verb phrases because of missing verbs, which could be due to the different sentence structures in English and Turkish. The aim is to conduct a corpus-based error analysis in order to investigate and answer two main questions. The first question is, if Turkish EFL students are having difficulties in applying the rules in their essays. The second question deals with the analysis of the error sources to be able to interpret them in order to provide pedagogical implications towards them.

Interference Errors in the Writings of Turkish Learners of English
Interference Errors in the Writings of Turkish Learners of English

Author: Ahmet Kesmez

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2015-12-23

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9783659818912

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The purpose of this book is to examine the interference errors of the students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at Bingol University, Turkey.Composition papers were analyzed and these errors were categorized as general errors and errors stemming from mother tongue (Turkish).The errors stemming from Turkish were initially categorized into four major categories; morphological, lexical, syntactic and orthographic and then those mentioned major categories were also divided into sub-categories. Finally, this book aims to propose suggestions to the researchers, foreign language teachers, and curriculum organizers which may help them to facilitate language teaching process, and also foreign language learners may become aware of their interference errors with the help of this study."

Morphological Decomposition in Heritage Turkish Speakers in the U.S.
Morphological Decomposition in Heritage Turkish Speakers in the U.S.

Author: Esra Eldem (Graduate student)

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: The present study aimed to analyze the processing of morphologically complex words in heritage Turkish speakers in the U.S. Two separate priming experiments (English and Turkish) were conducted on 27 heritage Turkish speakers (HTS), 28 native Turkish speakers (NTS), and 21 native English speakers (NES). Experiment 1 (Turkish) compared the priming effects (if any), response times and error rates of heritage Turkish and native Turkish speakers. The derived word forms, i.e., adjectives formed with the denominal adjective marker -siz (e.g., sınırsız – sınır; ‘limitless – limit’) and nouns formed with the deadjectival nominalizer -lik (e.g., hastalık – hasta; ‘sickness – sick’) in Turkish were the foci of Experiment 1. Experiment 2 (English) investigated morphological processing in heritage Turkish and native English speakers by focusing on the English derived word forms attached by the denominal adjective marker -less and the deadjectival nominalizer -ness, which are the translation equivalents for -siz and -lik, respectively. The results of Experiment 1 indicated efficient priming in the morphologically complex (i.e., derived) Turkish word forms in both HTS and the NTS groups. Similarly, both HTS and the NES groups exhibited efficient morphological priming in derived English words in Experiment 2. Additionally, the results of the two experiments showed statistically significant differences in the response times between HTS and NTS groups in the Turkish experiment and HTS and NES groups in the English experiment. These findings were interpreted as indicating morphological decomposition in operation during early word recognition of morphologically complex Turkish and English words. Furthermore, the findings showed that although heritage Turkish speakers’ exposure to their L1 was comparatively limited compared to native speakers, they were still able to develop native-like morphological processing mechanisms. The slower response times of the heritage Turkish speaker group compared to both native speaker groups pointed out the importance of language exposure as well as the simultaneous activation of both Turkish and English during reading in one language. Lastly, to the researcher’s knowledge, this is the first-ever study conducted on the morphological decomposition and affix-stripping processes in heritage Turkish speakers in the U.S.

Comparison between English and Turkish compounds
Comparison between English and Turkish compounds

Author: Seda Evirgen

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 3668286116

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Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, , course: Morphology, language: English, abstract: This term paper will give an overview of compounds in general, about the stress and the types of compounds. Furthermore, to take a closer look at the languages comes the differentiation of nominal compounds, adjective compounds and verbal compounds in English and Turkish. The final point is the analysis of the differences and similarities of English and Turkish compounds. With the help of word formation processes we form new words and there are many different processes that lead to many different new words. Compounding is a morphological operation where two or more free morphemes create one complex morpheme. Compounds are very important because they can prevent ambiguity if you just take a closer look at them and there are probably no languages without compounding. Every language is in need of compounded words because of the new inventions and changes in our society everyday. One of the most important and often used word formation processes is compounding. This term paper presents a general overview of the structure of compounds in English and Turkish. Because my mother language is Turkish and I study English, I was really interested in the differences between the English and Turkish language. English is an analytic language and Turkish an agglutinating language therefore it makes it more interesting to analyze.