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
Prof. Dr. Dinçay KÖKSAL
koksal.dincay@gmail.com
Editors
Prof. Dr. Gonca YANGIN EKŞİ
goncayangin@gmail.com
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Erdost YASTIBAŞ
ahmetyastibas1@gmail.com
Co-Editors
Lecturer Dr. Orçin KARADAĞ
orcinkaradag@gmail.com
Lecturer Dr. Nermin Punar ÖZÇELİK
nerminpunar@gmail.com
Lecturer 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