TURKISH STUDIES - EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES, vol.15, no.1, pp.1-13, 2020 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
In recent years, the increasing importance of English in education has grabbed researchers’ attention
to the discourse of English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. However, there are not many studies focusing
on classroom discourse of EFL classes in the Turkish context even though there are a number of studies
conducted abroad. This study aims to compile the research articles and M.A. and PhD theses published between
years of 2010 and 2019 written on the issue of EFL classroom discourse to know the scope of the related
literature and to light the way for further studies. For this purpose, 27 articles and 24 theses were examined in
terms of publication year, numbers of writers, research designs, data collection methods, characteristics of
samples, data analysis methods, topics they study and the numbers of references. Databases, namely The
Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBİM), Educational Resources Information Center
(ERIC) and Council of Higher Education Thesis Center were used to collect data and the results were given in
frequency and percentage tables. It was found out that the number of studies about discourse increased between
2012 and 2016 and articles tended to be written with one or two authors. The number of qualitative studies in
which descriptive statistics used outnumbered the other studies. In this regard, interviews and video recording
were commonly used for data collection. The number of studies whose participants were mostly teachers and university students outnumbered the other studies. Finally, code-switching was the trend topic among examined
studies.