Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2009

Full Length Research Paper

Turkish as a foreign language learners’ awareness and use of morphology in guessing the meanings of unknown words from context: A case study

Fatih Yilmaz
  • Fatih Yilmaz
  • Gaziosmanpasa University, Tokat/Turkey
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 29 December 2014
  •  Accepted: 11 February 2015
  •  Published: 10 March 2015

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