ELT Research Journal
The Board of Management
Owner
Prof. Dr. Dinçay KÖKSAL
President, International Association of Research in Foreign Language Education and Applied Linguistics
Editor in Chief
Dinçay KÖKSAL
koksal.dincay@gmail.com
Editors
Gonca YANGIN EKŞİ
goncayangin@gmail.com
Ahmet Erdost YASTIBAŞ
ahmetyastibas@gazi.edu.tr
Co-Editors
Orçin KARADAĞ
orcinkaradag@gmail.com
Nermin Punar ÖZÇELİK
nerminpunar@gmail.com
Arzu SEVİNÇ
arzusevinc256@gmail.com
Editorial Board
Arif Sarıçoban, Selçuk University - Turkey
Aylin Yardımcı, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University - Turkey
Aysun Yavuz, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University – Turkey
Ayşe Akyel, Yeditepe University – Turkey
Birsen Tütüniş, İstanbul Aydın University – Turkey
Çiler Hatipoğlu, Middle East Technical University - Turkey
Ece Zehir Topkaya, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University – Turkey
Feryal Çubukçu, Dokuz Eylul University – Turkey
Gonca Yangın Ekşi, Gazi University - Turkey
Gölge Seferoğlu, Middle East Technical University - Turkey
Mehmet Demirezen, Hacettepe University – Turkey
Mehmet Sercan Uztosun, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University – Turkey
Mustafa Tekin, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University – Turkey
Pushp Lata, Banaras Hindu University, India
Salah Troudi, University of Exeter – UK
Salim Razı, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University – Turkey
Zhichang Xu, The Hong Kong Institute of Education – Hong Kong
Advisory Board
Andrea DeCapua, The College of New Rochelle – USA
Angeles Clement, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca - Mexico
Ardith J. Meier, University of Northern Iowa – USA
Azirah Hashim, University of Malaya – Malaysia
Babaii Esmat, Tarbiat Moallem University – Iran
Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University – Israel
Bill Grabe, Northern Arizona University – USA
Bruce Morrison, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University – Hong Kong
Carisma Nel, North-West University – USA
Christopher Kennedy, University of Birmingham – UK
Claus Gnutzmann, Technische Universität Braunschweig – Germany
Elaine K. Horwitz, The University of Texas – USA
Eleni Manolopoulou-Sergi, Hellenic Open University - Greece
Eva Alcon, Universidad Jaume I – Spain
Filomena Capucho, Catholic University - Portugal
Fredricka Stoller, Northern Arizona State University – USA
Gary Barkhuizen, The University of Aukland – New Zerland
Ghazi Ghaith, American University of Beirut – Lebanon
Hasan Ansary, Shiraz University – Iran
Hayo Reinders, Middlesex University – UK
Hilary Nesi, Cowentry University – UK
Hugh Randal Holme, The Hong Kong Institute of Education – Hong Kong
Ibrahim S AlFallay, King Saud University , Saudi Arabia
James A. Coleman, The Open University – UK
Jesús García Laborda, Universidad de Alcala – Spain
József Horváth, University of Pécs - Hungary
Kontra H. Edit, Eötvös University – Hungary
Kurt Kohn, University of Tübingen
Lawrence Jun Zhang (ELL), National Institute of Education, Singapore
Lynne Flowerdew, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Hong Kong
Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Maria Pilar Safont, Universitat Jaume I – Spain
María Jesús Sánchez Manzano, University of Salamanca, Spain
Mirjam Hauk, Open University – UK
Neal Snape, Gunma Prefectural Women's University – Japan
Neil J. Anderson, Brigham Young University, USA
Nick Ellis, Michigan University – USA
Nicos Sifakis, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Norbert Schmitt, Nothingham University - UK
Piotr Romanowski, Warsaw University - Poland
Ravi Sheorey, Oklahoma State University – USA
Rebecca Oxford, the University of Maryland – USA
Richard Watson Todd, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
Robert Debski, Jagiellonian University – Poland
Robert Vanderplank, Oxford University, UK
Samira Elatia, The University of Alberta – Canada
Udo Jung, University of Bayreuth – Germany
Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Hong Kong Institute of Education – Hong Kong
Wataru Suzuki, Miyagi University of Education – Japan
Yousef Kasımi, Sakarya University – Turkey