Yazar duruşuna odaklanmış bir öğretimin İngiliz dili eğitimi yüksek lisans öğrencilerinin akademik yazıları üzerindeki etkileri

Corpus linguistics has become very common among the SLA researchers and has influenced ESL/EFL education over the past few decades. Computer learner corpora, a sub-division of corpus linguistics, have been used quite often in ESL/EFL studies. In the first part of the study, usage of stance verbs in a corpus of 48 doctoral dissertations written by Turkish-speaking Academic Authors of English (TAEs) which was collected by Ağçam (2014), named TACE (Ağçam, 2014) (Turkish Academic Corpus of English), were investigated and the findings were compared against The British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus. WordSmith Tools software was used to count the frequencies of the stance verbs. The second part of the study incorporated educational practices. In the second part of the study there were 5 authorial stance awareness raising activity sessions to investigate that whether explicit training of stance verbs in class raises the "stance awareness of the trainees" or not. Findings in the study show that Turkish academic writers used more stance verbs than British academic writers, but English academic writers used more stance verb types. The findings of this study also show that generally verbs that were not used by the British writers were not used by the Turkish writers either. After the stance awareness activities students were able to identify the stance verbs in the paper they chose. Furthermore, students not only classified the verbs as they were taught in the first stance awareness raising activity session, but also gained a grasp of authorial stance verbs and they were aware of the potency of the usage of those verbs. Key Words: BAWE, academic writing, corpus, linguistics, authorial stance