EDITORIAL

Abstract

Editorial

It is with great honor that we edit the proceedings of “3rd Global Conference on Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching (LINELT 2015)” Istanbul University, Istanbul – Turkey, November 16-18, 2015. This privileged scientific event has contributed to the field of ELT for the third year.

As the guest editors of this issue, we are glad to have received  a variety of articles focusing on Computer Assisted Language Learning, Cultural Studies, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design, Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), English for Specific Purposes,  Teacher Interactions, Foreign Language Teaching, Gender Studies, General Linguistics, Globalization Studies and world English’s, Independent / Autonomous Learning, Information and Computer Technology in TEFL, Innovations in language Teaching and Learning, Intercultural Education, Language Acquisition and Learning, Language Curriculum Development, Language Education, Language Program Evaluation, Language Teacher Education, Language Teaching Methodology, Language Testing and Assessment, Literacy and Language Learning, Literature, Mobile Language Learning, Pragmatics,  Digital Literacy Skills,  Second Language Pedagogy, Second Language Proficiency, Second Language Speech,  Second Language Training,  Second language Vocabulary Learning, Teaching English as a Foreign/ Second Language, Teaching Language Skills, TESOL / TESL / TEFL, Translation Studies, Speech processing, Pronunciation Modeling, Speech Quality and Intelligibility Tests, Machine Translation, Automatic Text Summarization, Dialogue Systems, Text Understanding Systems, Word Sense Disambiguation,  etc. Furthermore, LINELT is getting more international each year, which is an indicator that it is getting known and recognized worldwide. Scholars from all over the world contributed to the conference. Special thanks go to all the reviewers, members of the international editorial board, the publisher, and those involved in the technical processes. We would like to thank all who contributed to every procedure to make publication of this issue possible. A total of 61 full papers or abstracts were submitted to this conference and each paper has been peer reviewed by the reviewers specialized in the related field. At the end of the review process, a total of 20 high quality research papers were selected and accepted for publication.

I hope that you will enjoy reading the papers.

Best Regards

Guest Editors

Prof. Dr. Ali Rahimi, University of Bangkok

Editorial Assistant

Msc. Zeynep Genc, Near East University, North Cyprus