Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
10th International KTUDELL Conference: Language, Literature, and Translation, Trabzon, Türkiye, 29 - 30 Mayıs 2025, ss.59, (Özet Bildiri)
Abstract
Individual differences such as learners’ motivation, willingness to communicate, personality
traits, language aptitude and gender play a crucial role in language learning. The present
research examines how these individual differences are explored in two selected Turkishbased
journals. The journals to be explored were Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
(JLLS) and Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (JLTL). Through an extensive
examination of the articles in the aforementioned journals, the present research identifies the
tendencies in research focus, the methodological approaches and publication patterns over a
ten years period of time (2012-2022). The findings reveal that among the five individual
differences scrutinized, motivation takes the lead; in other words, motivation is the most
frequently studied individual difference in the articles in two journals mentioned above.
Gender and willingness to communicate (WTC) are less frequently studied than motivation;
however, more frequently studied than language aptitude and personality types. One striking
finding is that, through the examination of the articles in ten years of two journals, there were
no studies about language aptitude and personality types. As for the methodological
approaches, most of the research seems to be carried out by quantitative methods. Qualitative
and mixed method studies are few in number. The findings are supposed to contribute to
researchers and stakeholders.
Keywords: Individual Differences, Language Learning, Motivation, Willingness to
Communicate, Gender, Language Aptitude, Personality Types