2. Methodology
2.1. The Setting and Participants
The present study was conducted at a private university in Istanbul, Turkey. The participants of the study were
eighty-four (N=84) ESP learners of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The participants’ mother tongue was Turkish coming
from families with a high socio-economic background. Forty-four (N=44) of the student participants were female
and forty (N=40) were male with the age range from eighteen (18) to twenty-seven (27). At the beginning of the
study, students were informed about the goals of the study and they were volunteered to participate.