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Article Vocabulary in an English Medium Instruction Context : Selection and Difficulty(2018) Nural, ŞükrüVocabulary has long been an important issue in English as a foreign language learning and in academic disciplines but scant attention has been paid to vocabulary learning in English Medium Instruction (EMI) contexts. In this exploratory study, vocabulary learning in the social sciences was investigated from the perspective of first-year undergraduate students in Turkey. An open-ended questionnaire was administered to 161 freshmen majoring in International Relations and Philosophy. The findings suggest that students tended to remember vocabulary for reasons pertaining to the characteristics of the lecture, the lecturers’ delivery style, to the characteristics of the students themselves and to the nature of the lexical items they were exposed to during their lectures. Some recommendations are suggested to inform lecture delivery in EMI contexts.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2Warning Notes in a Learner’s Dictionary: a Study of the Effectiveness of Different Formats(International Journal of Lexicography, 2022) Çakar, Tuna; Nesi, Hilary; Nural, ŞükrüThis study used an online correction task to explore the extent to which different types of warning notes in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online were heeded when users tried to correct errors in the use of L2 target words. The task was completed by 332 participants, yielding 1,819 answers produced after clicking on links to relevant entries. Warning notes were categorised in terms of their formatting features, but there were found to be inconsistencies in the way the dictionary associated different categories with different kinds of learner error. Participants judged warning notes with more visual enhancements to be more useful, but in the correction task the position of the warning notes also seemed to affect the degree to which the warnings were successfully applied. Different types of warning notes in learners’ dictionaries have not been examined previously in any depth, and the results suggest that some adjustments to formatting and placement might make them more effective.