Content Analysis of Abstracts on ELT Research Available in Turkish JournalPark Academic Platform

Year 2018, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 58 - 77, 28.06.2018

Kürşat Cesur , Muhammed Kök Çığır Aydın

Abstract

This study
investigates the tendency in research on ELT via content analysis of the
abstracts of publications available in Turkish JournalPark Academic (DergiPark
Akademik) platform which is a national journal management and publication
system that is home to more than 2000 journals and over 326000 articles. Qualitative
research method was carried out. The input for the search query that constituted
the data for this study was “English Language Teaching”. The resulting 234
articles’ abstracts were examined using an “Article Information Rubric”. The
data analysis procedure was carried out by examining each section such as
availability of abstract, not stated in abstract, distribution of themes,
availability of samples, distribution of sample, availability of sampling, distribution
type of sampling, etc. for each abstract. The findings revealed that data
analysis (f=125), type of sampling (f=110), research design (f=108) were mostly found to be not
stated in abstracts. Moreover, ELT researchers studied mostly teacher
education, curriculum and teaching materials, and language teaching. Undergraduates
(f=130) were the most frequent
sample. Purposive (f=79) and random (f=23) sampling types were found to be
the most utilized types. The implications and suggestions drawn based on the
findings of the study are presented in the conclusion part. 

Keywords

ELT Research, Journal Articles, Content Analysis, Abstracts

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