Vasfiye Geçkin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vasfiye Geçkin is involved.
Articles
2025 The realization of apologies in a second language Language and Dialogue 15:2, pp. 262–281 | Article
This study examines intercultural pragmatic competence in the way advanced Turkish learners of English realize the act of apologizing in English. The data were obtained from six dialogic scenarios of apologies that the students acted out in class. The main objective was to explore the role of… read more
2016 Acquisition of scope relations by Turkish-English bilingual children The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood, Haznedar, Belma and F. Nihan Ketrez (eds.), pp. 119–150 | Chapter
This is a bidirectional case study in the acquisition of semantics by Turkish – English bilingual children. The research question is whether bilingual children acquiring Turkish and English use parental input versus a principle of language learnability, as the basis for their initial… read more
2008 The morphology/syntax interface in child L2 acquisition: Evidence from verbal morphology Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 237–267 | Article
Recent work in both adult and child L2 acquisition has focused on the question of whether morphological variability suggests syntactic impairment, or the lack of overt inflection could be attributable to problems associated with surface morphology (e.g. Lardiere 1998a, b; Haznedar & Schwartz 1997;… read more