Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hale IŞIK-GÜLER

(Research Group Leader) 

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Dr. Işık-Güler works as an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Language EducationMiddle East Technical University, Ankara.

Her work and those of her graduate students can be best described as being at the intersection of Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics. More specifically, her academic interests mainly lie within the domains of cross-cultural (im)politeness research, spoken corpora compilation and socio-pragmatic analysis of corpora, critical discourse analysis, gender and identity work, conversation analysis, genre analysis, intercultural communication and applied linguistics.

Personal Website: https://blog.metu.edu.tr/hisik/

Email: hisik@metu.edu.tr


Yasemin Erdoğan (DISCORE Coordinator)

PhD Candidate

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Yasemin Erdoğan is currently a PhD candidate in English Language Teaching Program, Language Studies Track at METU. Her research interests lie in the areas of sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography and critical discourse studies. She  primarily focuses on sociolinguistics of globalization and migration; critical discourse analysis; gender and sexuality; new media discourses and online communities.

Email:yasemin.erdogan@metu.edu.tr

X: https://twitter.com/ysmnerdgn 

Academia: https://metu.academia.edu/YaseminErdoğan

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yasemin_Erdogan5   


Dr. Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan (DISCORE Coordinator)

PhD

Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan holds a PhD in Language Studies (ELT) from METU. She also earned an MA in English Language Teaching, a BA in Foreign Language Education and a Minor Degree in Psychology from METU. For her doctoral dissertation, she compiled the first Turkish youth talk corpus (CoTY) and examined the interactional dynamics of youth talk utilizing a corpus-assisted approach. Her research interests are (critical) discourse studies, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, open science practices in linguistic research. Esranur Efeoğlu-Özcan is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at King's College London, United Kingdom. 

Email: esnure@gmail.com 

Web: esraefeogluozcan.com

X: https://twitter.com/esranureo


Dr. Merve Bozbıyık

PhD

Merve Bozbıyık is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Mälardalen University, Sweden and a research assistant at Middle East Technical University, Türkiye. She holds a PhD from Hacettepe University. She is interested in classroom discourse, teacher education, English Medium Instruction, medical interaction, and call-center interaction using Conversation Analysis. ⋆

Email: merveboz@metu.edu.tr

X: https://twitter.com/mervebozbiyik 

METU Avesis: https://avesis.metu.edu.tr/merveboz


Dr. Funda Dörtkulak

PhD

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Funda Dörtkulak got her PhD degree in English Language Teaching Program at METU. Her research interests are sociocultural linguistics; corpus studies; discourse studies; social media discourses; gender and language.

Email: fundadortkulak@gmail.com


Dr. Hülya Mısır

PhD

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Hülya Mısır has a PhD from the Department of English Language Teaching at METU. She holds an MA degree in ELT from Hacettepe University. Her main research interests include online discourse and communication, the practice of online language learning and learner corpora and English for academic/specific purposes. Dr. Mısır is currently a post doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham.

Email: hulya.misir@metu.edu.tr

X: https://twitter.com/hulya_misir

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4103-682X

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huelya_Misir


Özlem Özbakış

PhD Candidate

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Having received a BA (2011) and MA (2015) in ELT from Middle East Technical University (METU), Özlem is a PhD candidate at METU. She is mainly interested in applied linguistics, co-construction and negotiation of identities and positioning, agency and power in interaction, classroom discourse, spoken workplace discourse, conversation analysis and corpus linguistics.

Email: ozlem.ozbakis@metu.edu.tr


Dr. Xiaoli Yu 

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Dr. Xiaoli Yu was a former lecturer at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye. Her research interests include corpus linguistics, vocabulary research, second language writing, teacher education, educational technology, and so forth. She is particularly interested in using corpus-based approaches to research lexical and syntactical complexity as well as the intersection between vocabulary and writing. Currently, she teaches undergraduate ELT methodology courses and a graduate corpus linguistics course.

Email: xiaoli@metu.edu.tr


Melike Demir Bektaş

PhD Student

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Melike Demir Bektaş works as an instructor at the Department of Basic English at METU. She holds a BA and MA degree from the Department of Foreign Language Education at METU, and her professional interests lie in "social positioning", "critical discourse analysis", "classroom interaction" and "identity".

Email: dmelike@metu.edu.tr


Galip Karabacak, MA

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Galip Karabacak holds a BA and MA from the English Language Teaching Department at METU. His research interests revolves mainly around Queer Linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.

Email: galip.karabacak@metu.edu.tr


Pınar Turan

PhD Candidate

Pınar Turan (formerly Pınar Topal) is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at the Department of Foreign Language Education, METU. She holds an MA in English Language Teaching from Bogazici University and a BA in ELT with a minor degree in Linguistics from Hacettepe University. Drawing upon multimodal conversation analysis and corpus-based methodologies, she examines discourse and naturally occurring interaction mainly in institutional and pedagogical contexts, including but not limited to mentor-mentee interactions, video-mediated settings, and English-medium instruction.

Email: ptopal@metu.edu.tr


Betül Çimenli

PhD Candidate

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Betül Çimenli works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education at Bartın University. She is currently a PhD student at Foreign Language Education Program (Language Studies track) at METU. She holds a BA and MA degree in English Language Teaching from Hacettepe University. Her research interests involve investigating face-to-face and online interaction via conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis from various environments including classroom discourse and dyadic online conversations. She is also a regular attendee of HUMAN Research Centre dedicated to collaborate on the analysis of social interaction from various environments using a conversation analytic framework.

Email: betul.cimenli@metu.edu.tr

X: https://twitter.com/BetulCimenli


Merve Hırçın-Çoban

PhD Candidate

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Merve Hırçın Çoban works as an instructor at the Department of Basic English at METU. She is a PhD student at the Department of English Language Teaching Program (Language Studies track) at METU. She is mainly interested in conversation analytic and corpus-based investigation of classroom interaction and interaction in paired or group L2 oral assessment.

Email: mhircin@metu.edu.tr


Fatma Ege 

PhD Candidate

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Fatma Ege works as an instructor at ITU School of Foreign Languages. She is a PhD student at the Department of English Language Teaching (Language Studies track) at METU. She holds a BA degree from METU and an MA degree from Kocaeli University. Her main research interests include corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, social identity and classroom interaction.

Email: fatma.ege@metu.edu.tr  


FORMER MEMBERS:

Maheen Haider Alipoor, Visiting PhD Student

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Maheen Haider Alipoor works as an English Language Instructor and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a PhD student at the Department of Translation, Interpretation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Bologna and was a visiting PhD student at METU DISCORE (2022). She holds an MS in Gender and Women’s Studies from METU and a BA in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University. Her research interests are corpus linguistics; (feminist) critical discourse analysis; ecocriticism; ecofeminism; gender; literature; climate change and media discourses.

Email: maheenhaideralipoo2@unibo.it


Last Updated:
25/03/2024 - 02:17