Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INSTRUCTION, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.1157-1172, 2019 (ESCI)
Idioms and reduplications which have a significant place in the elements of vocabulary represent the characteristics of the society they come to light. Therefore, the words carried by these stereotyped phrases from past to the present, come out as the best way of expressing the feelings, senses, and existence of the society. This study aimed at ascertaining the pre-service Turkish language teachers' interpretation case of fossil words in Turkish reduplications and idioms. It adopts the concurrent triangulation design of mixed methods research. "Vocabulary Knowledge Scale" developed by Wesche and Paribakht (1996) was used in the research. The five-poin trating figure and scoring scheme was taken by Ates and Sis (2016). As a result of the study, the effect of giving/not giving example stereotyped phases on interpreting fossil words was examined, and it was observed that the participants had higher levels of interpretation of fossil words when they were given the example stereotyped phrases. Unearthing the fossil words is significant since it is considered as a building stone which will contribute to the development of the language having term problems and lacking to find equivalents of foreign words.