İngilizce öğretmenliği programı'nda okuyan öğrencilerin kullandıkları olgusal biliş eylemlerinin yanulamlama görünümlerinin incelenmesi

The current research aimed to explore Turkish L2 learners' receptive and productive knowledge of factive cognitive verb complementation in terms of complementation patterns and senses. For the purposes of the research, embedded mixed-methods research design was adopted by using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Participants of the study consisted of 269 Turkish learners of English majoring in ELT program. Data were collected through four types of tests developed based on Valency Dictionary of English (Herbst, Heath, Roe, and Götz, 2004) to measure L2 learners' state of knowledge through Grammaticality Judgment Test and Fill-in-the Blank Test and to reveal choices of patterns and senses through Sentence Completion Test and Free-Production Test based on extracts from Corpus of Contemporary American English. Data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively through the identification of patterns and senses, calculation of raw and mean scores and statistical tests. The results of the study yielded the significant effect of word-level on L2 learners' recognition and production of verb complementation. The correct choices of L2 learners yielded the use of the verbs in very restricted sense with limited types of patterns (i.e. predominantly noun phrases). The incorrect choices included the wrong choices of various patterns especially prepositional phrases (for/about/of/from Noun Phrases/V-ing) with regret. Besides, various problems were observed such as the mismatch between the complementation pattern and verb sense, incorrect verb sense use and the problematic use of wh-CL complementation pattern. This study is hoped to provide valuable insights into L2 learners' interlanguage development through their correct, incorrect and problematic uses of verb complementation.