An Investigation into Turkish EFL Learners’ Ambiguity Tolerance

The purpose of this study is to explore Turkish EFL learners’ ambiguity tolerance at a state university, Turkey. In line with this main aim, to find out if there is any significant difference between Turkish male and female learners in their ambiguity tolerance of learning English is also another purpose of the study. Within this purpose, Ely’s (1995) Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity Scale (SLTAS) was administered to 89 (52 female and 37 male) prep class students from Department of English Language Teaching and English Language Literature at a state university of Turkey. The data were collected during the academic year of 2018-2019. The findings of the study revealed that the participants’ ambiguity tolerance levels were low. There was not any statistically significant difference in students’ ambiguity tolerance of learning English regarding their gender. Based on the findings, implications and recommendations were also presented for teachers and researchers in the field of English language teaching.