ON VOICE IN ENGLISH: AN AWARENESS RAISING ATTEMPT ON PASSIVE VOICE

Authors

  • Meral M. Unver Anadolu University, Turkey

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejfl.v0i0.919

Keywords:

English language teaching, passive voice, test-teach-test, voice in English

Abstract

Passive voice is commonly preferred in certain genres such as academic essays and news reports, despite the current trends promoting active voice, it is essential for learners to be fully aware of the meaning, use and form of passive voice to better communicate. This study aims to explore ways to help English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners notice and revise voice in English and raise their awareness of when and how to use active and passive voice to convey meaning in their written and spoken work. The study focuses on a different approach to be taken to teach voice in English, which might help students become more aware of the use of passive voice. The issues related to the use of passive voice are derived from the work of EFL learners who failed to make sensible decisions about when and how to use passive voice partly because the differences between their mother tongue and English and because they were not aware of the fact that active and passive voice would not alternate all the time.

 

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2017-07-28

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Vol 2, No 3 (2017)

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