Conference Presentations
2025
- Exploring TESOL teacher candidates’ language ideologies through a sequential mixed methods approach. Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Conference, Toronto, Canada.
- Exploring the impact of language ideologies on materials development: A conceptual analysis within the Global Englishes framework. Materials Development in Foreign/Second Language Teacher Education, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany.
2024
- Exploring language ideologies of Instagram teachers. Southern Ontario Universities Symposium, Canada.
- Empowering adult English language learners in TESOL through translanguaging: a strength-based approach. Ohio TESOL Conference, USA.
- Unveiling Turkey’s multilingual tapestry: Exploring identity, language ideologies, and policy implications. Sociolinguistic Symposium 25, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
- Enhancing multilingual learners’ social justice awareness through translanguaging pedagogy. The Translanguaging Institute, New Mexico, USA.
- Translingual pedagogies: Decolonizing academic writing for multilingual students. TESOL Colombia VI, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Raising multilingual learners’ awareness of social justice through translanguaging pedagogy (with M. Şanal). TESOL Convention, Tampa, USA.
- Translanguaging and motivation in multilingual EFL learners: Unveiling the nexus. TESOL Convention, Tampa, USA.
- Language ideologies and heritage language maintenance among Turkish families in the United States. AAAL Conference, Houston, Texas, USA (Poster).
- Unraveling language ideologies in Turkish pre-service EFL teachers’ perception of Global Englishes (with P. Sayer). AAAL Conference, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Exploring multilingualism in Turkey: Embracing linguistic diversity and cultivating inclusive identities. AAAL Conference, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Multilingualism in Türkiye: Examining Identity Development through the Lens of Perezhevanie. EHE Research Forum, OSU.
2023
- Family language policies of Turkish immigrant parents in the United States. BMRS2023 – Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium, University of South Carolina, USA.
- Leveraging learners’ home languages for teaching English. Ohio TESOL 2023 Conference, USA.
- Exploring Turkish immigrant parents’ language ideologies. International Symposium on Teaching Turkish as a Heritage and Foreign Language, Brussels, Belgium.
- Maintaining Turkish as a heritage language. International Symposium on New Trends in Language Studies, Ankara, Turkey.
- Translanguaging and motivation among multilingual learners. CCERBAL 2023, Ottawa, Canada.
- Attitudes of pre-service EFL teachers in Turkey toward varieties of English (with P. Sayer). TESOL Convention, Portland, USA.
- Structured input for diverse languages and learners. CSCTFL Conference, Columbus, USA (Workshop).
- Attitudes of Turkish Pre-Service EFL Teachers Toward Varieties of English. EHE Research Forum, OSU.
2022 and earlier
- Effects of translanguaging on foreign language learning anxiety and motivation. Sunshine State TESOL, Florida, USA. (2022)
- Translanguaging for multilingual writing development. FLRT Graduate Student Symposium, OSU. (2021)
- Attitudes of Turkish EFL learners toward varieties of English. Sociolinguistics Colloquium, OSU. (2021)
- Self-efficacy and attitudes of teacher trainers toward PD (with Z. Arslan & H. Tunç). INGED International ELT Conference, Ankara, Turkey. (2019)
- Attitudes toward semantic change. Geltus-Con, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. (2010)
Invited Talks
2024
- Phenomenology as a qualitative research method. University of Missouri, Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum.
- PhD candidacy workshop. The Ohio State University, Department of Teaching and Learning.
- Navigating interviews as qualitative research. Youth Center for Research.
- Leveraging students’ home languages in TESOL classrooms. Ohio Department of Education.
2020
- English language education in mainstream public schools in Turkey. Turkish Ministry of National Education.