@article{article_1036411, title={The Reflections of Language Exposure in Foreign Language Learning}, journal={Bayterek Uluslararası Akademik Araştırmalar Dergisi}, volume={4}, pages={194–215}, year={2021}, DOI={10.48174/buaad.42.4}, author={Küçükler, Sevdenur and Sulac, Sofia}, keywords={Language exposure, Foreign language learning, Foreign language teaching, In-school-out-of-school learning}, abstract={Language exposure refers to the level of the learners contact with their target languages which they are learning or attempting to learn. Generally, most researchers refer language exposure to student’s practices outside the classroom which extensively impacts on their target language learning. The lack of practicing of a language hampers their speaking in a foreign language and hence create the need to solve this problem. Students that can not be speak a foreign language fluently, especially English find themselves unable to communicate clearly during speaking.This can be frustrating and hence helping to solve failure in speaking a foreign language. Exposure to language motivate students’ willingness to learn. By modeling and encouraging a safe environment and purposeful rules, students feel motivated to do the right thing and help one another. It is important for teachers to put an emphasis on intrinsic motivation in the classroom to keep students interested and invested in their own learning goals. For this reason, this research advocates that if scholars can embrace speaking in English during university eduction.The purposeof the study is that exposure of language to students who study foreign languages in Komrat University of Gagauzia and students who study in English department at Balıkesir University is discussed. The study was carried out during 2020 academic year. There were 102 participants from Balıkesir University and 108 participants from Komrat University. The data of the study were collected by the "Exposure Scale to English" developed by Gökcan and Çobanoğlu Aktan (2017) for foreign language students.Research questions were directed to students to measure how much of their time were exposed to English.The results from the study are also in line with other present research which reveal that more than 51.43 percent of students in Balikesir were increasingly exposed to the English language in school, at home, while interacting with friends, and media}, number={2}, publisher={Onur Alp KAYABAŞI}