• Ekrem Solak

  Author

The purpose of this study was to determine the trends of recent research papers in
foreign language teaching in Turkish context and to give ideas to researchers and policy makers
for future studies. Content Analysis method was used in this study. The focus of the study was
189 research papers published between 2009-2013 years in journals indexed in SSCI (94) and
the ULAKBIM (95) database in Turkey. Research Papers Classification Form was used as data
collection instrument. The papers were scanned in terms of year of the journal, authors,
language of the paper, journal index, topic of the paper, research design, data collection tools,
sample, sample size and data analysis method. The results revealed that the most frequently
studied topics on foreign language teaching and learning from 2009 to 2013 were concept
analysis, teaching and learning, the highest number of articles were published in 2013, most of
the authors were Turkish, majority of the articles were published in English, quantitative method
was used more than qualitative method in research design, undergraduates were the focus of
attention as sample group and 31-100 sample size was preferred more than others.

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