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AYŞE GÜREL
Boğaziçi University
Faculty of Education
Department of Foreign
Language Education
Bebek, Istanbul, 34342,
Turkey
E-mail:
agurel@boun.edu.tr
Phone: +90 212
359 4596
EDUCATION · Ph.D. McGill University , Department of Linguistics, Montreal , Quebec , Canada , 2002.
· M.A. Boğaziçi University , Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul , Turkey , 1996.
· B.A. Boğaziçi University , Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul , Turkey , 1992.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
· Second language acquisition and first language attrition of morpho-syntax
· Neurolinguistic correlates of language acquisition and language loss: aphasia in monolinguals and bilinguals & speech-language disorders in children
· Psycholinguistic aspects of (second) language processing
· Relations between memory systems and language acquisition & loss
ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
· 2007-Present: Psycholinguistic investigations of bilingualism: Sentence processing in Turkish and English.
(Principal Investigator)
· 2004-2006: Comparative study of aphasia and second language acquisition (principal investigator).
· 2004-2006: Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in Turkish (co-investigator).
PREVIOUS RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
· The Acquisition of Functional Categories, McGill University , Department of Linguistics, (principal investigator: Prof. Lydia White)
· Genetic Dysphasia, McGill University , Department of Linguistics, (principal investigator: Prof. Michel Paradis)
· The Mental Lexicon, McGill University , Department of Linguistics Research Assistant in, (principal investigator: Prof. Eva Kehayia)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Publications
· Gürel, A. (2007). (Psycho)linguistic determinants of L1 attrition. In Köpke, B., Schmid, M. S., Keijzer, M. & Dostert, S. (Eds.), Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives .
Amsterdam . John Benjamins.
· Roberts, L. ,Gürel, A., & Tatar, S. , & Martı, L. (Eds.) (2007). EUROSLA Yearbook , Vol. 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
. Gürel, A. (2006). L2 acquisition of pragmatic and syntactic constraints in the use of overt and null subject pronouns. In Slabakova, R. Prévost, P. & Montrul, S. (Eds), Inquiries in Linguistic Development , 259-282. Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
· Gürel, A. (2005). Aphasia in bilinguals. In S. Topbaş (Ed. ), Proceedings of the 2 nd National Congress on Language and Speech Disorders (pp. 262-270). Ankara : Kök Yayıncılık.
· Gürel, A. (2004). Selectivity in L2-induced L1 attrition: A psycholinguistic account. Journal of Neurolinguistics 17 , 53-78.
· Gürel, A. (2004). Attrition in First Language Competence: The Case of Turkish. In B. Köpke, & M. Schmid, M. Keijzer, L. Weilemar (Eds. ). First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues (pp. 225-242). Amsterdam : John Benjamins.
· Gürel, A. (2003). Is the overt pronoun constraint universal? Evidence from L2 Turkish? In Liceras, J. Goodluck, H. & Zobl, H. (Eds. ). Proceedings of the 6 th Biannual Conference on Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, pp. 130-139. Ottawa : Canada . Cascadilla Press.
· Gürel, A. (2003). End-state L2 Acquisition of Binding of Overt and Null Pronominals in Turkish . In T. Gruter & T. Takehisa (Eds. ), McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 17 (2), pp. 73-93.
· Gürel, A. (2002). First language atrition: The Effects of Second Language. In B. Skarabela, S. Fish, & Anna H.-J. Do (Eds. ), Proceedings of the 26 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Acquisition, pp. 255-265. Boston : Cascadilla Press.
· Gürel, A. (2000). Missing Case Inflection: Implications For Second Language Acquisition. In S. C. Howell, S. Fish, & T. Keith-Lucas (Eds. ), Proceedings of the 24 th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, pp. 379-390. Boston : Cascadilla Press.
· Gürel, A. (1999).Decomposition: To What Extent? The Case of Turkish. Brain and Language, 68 , 218-224.
· Paradis, M. .& Gürel, A. (1997). Bilingual Aphasia Test/İkidillilerde Afazi Testi (Turkish-Russian bilingualism/Rusça-Türkçe İkidillilik. Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.
· Paradis, M. . & Gürel, A. (1997). Aphasie Test für Zweisprachige/(İkidillilerde Afazi Testi (Deutsch-Türkish Zweisprachig-keit/Almanca-Türkçe Ikidillilik). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.
· Paradis, M. . & Gürel, A. (1997). Examen de l'aphasie chez les bilingues/İkidillilerde Afazi Testi (Bilingualism français-turc/Fransızca-Türkçe İkidillilik). Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.
· Gürel, A. (1996). Türkçe ile Diğer Türk Dilleri Arasinda Sözcüksel Ayirimlar. [Sources of Miscommunication Between Republican Turkish and Turkic Languages at Lexical Level], Proceedings of the 9th Turkish Linguistics Convention , Bolu , Turkey , 352-369.
Theses
· Gürel, A. (2002). Linguistic characteristics of second language acquisition and first language attrition: Overt versus null pronouns. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University , Montreal , Canada .
· Gürel, A. (1996). Memory Systems in Brain-damaged Patients: Implications for the Role of Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Boğaziçi University , Istanbul , Turkey .
Conference presentations
· September 11-14, 2007 . The 17th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA). Newcastle : UK . Paper presented: L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of English articles .
· December 23-24, 2005 . The 3rd National Meeting on the Human Brain-Machine Interface: The Human Brain as Information Processor. Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, İstanbul. Joint paper presented: The human brain and machine comparisons in speech recognition . (Arslan, L. & Gürel, A.).
· September 14-17, 2005 . The 15th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA). Dubrovnik : Crotia. Paper presented: The acquisition of new syntactic categories in the ultimate L2 state .
· August 17-20, 2005 . The 2nd International Conference on First Language Attrition. Amsterdam : The Netherlands . Plenary talk : (Psycho)linguistic determinants of first language attrition.
· June 2-4, 2005 . The 3rd National Congress on Language and Speech Disorders. Ankara , Turkey . Paper presented: Criteria for diagnosis of specific language impairment. .
· September 8-11, 2004 . The 14th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA). San Sebastian , Spain . Paper presented: The acquisition of specificity in L2 English and L2 Turkish .
· August 27-29, 2004 . Montreal Dialogues: Processes in L2 acquisition and in Creole Genesis. Montreal , Canada . Paper presented: Language change at the level of individual grammar.
· August 11-13, 2004 . The 12th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. İzmir. Paper presented: Morpho-syntactic manifestations of specific language impairment in Turkish: A case study .
· May 28-30, 2004 . The 2nd National Congress on Language and Speech Disorders. Eskişehir , Turkey . Paper presented: Aphasia in bilinguals .
· March 17-20, 2004 . The 1st National Cognitive Neurology Symposium. Antalya , Turkey . Paper presented: Neuropscyhological aspects of nonpathological language attrition.
· September 18-21, 2003 . The 13th Annual Meeting of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA). Edinburgh , Scotland , UK . Paper presented: Linguistic characteristics of ultimate grammars in L2 acquisition and L1 attrition.
· August 22-24, 2002 . The 1st International Conference on L1 Attrition. Amsterdam , The Netherlands . Paper presented: Attrition in first language competence: The case of Turkish .
· April 25-28, 2002 . The 6th Biannual Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference. Ottawa : Canada . Paper presented: Is the overt pronoun constraint universal? Evidence from L2 Turkish.
· Nov. 2-4, 2001 . The 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston , USA . Paper presented: First language attrition: the effects of second language .
· Oct. 4-7, 2001 . The 5th Pacific Second Language Research Forum, Honolulu , Hawaii , USA . Paper Presented: Attrition in first language grammar: connection with second language acquisition.
· Nov. 5-7, 1999 . The 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston , USA . Paper presented: Missing Case Inflection: Implications For Second Language Acquisition .
· Sept. 23-26, 1999 . The 19th Second Language Research Forum , Minnesota , USA . Paper presented: Acquisition of Case Marking in Turkish (L2).
· Sept. 3-5,1998 . The 1st International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Edmonton , Alberta , Canada . Paper presented: Decomposition: To What Extent? The Case of Turkish.
· June 14-16, 1997 . The 1st International Conference of the ASSC (Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness), Claremont , California , USA . Paper presented: Explicit and Implicit Memory in Amnesics: Implication for Second Language Acquisition .
· May 25-27, 1995 . 9th Turkish Linguistics Convention, Bolu , Turkey . Paper presented: Sources of Miscommunication Between Republican Turkish and Turkic Languages at Lexical Level .
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Boğaziçi University
· February, 2002-Present. Full-time instructor, Dept. of Foreign Language Education.
Courses taught: FLED 112: Language Awareness, FLED 201: Survey of Applied Linguistics, FLED 212: Second Language Learning, FLED 415: Language Transfer, FLED 412: Practice Teaching in EFL, FLED 416: Seminar on Practice Teaching, FLED 511: Theories of Second Language Acquisition. FLED 551: Pedagogical Grammar. FLED 686 Special Topics in Applied Linguistics: Neurolinguistics, FLED 689 Special Topics in Applied Linguistics: Psycholinguistic Investigation of Second Language Acquisition.
· 2003-Present. Instructor, Turkish for Foreigners , Boğaziçi University Continuing Education.
· Summer 2002, 2003, 2007 Instructor, Turkish for Foreigners , Boğaziçi University , School of Arts and Science, Language Center .
· 1993-1996. Teaching Assistant in charge of organization and implementation of the EFL Teaching Practicum for senior undergraduate students, supervision, and grading of teacher trainees.
· Summer 1994. Instructor, English for Specific Purposes (English for Tourism) in a private summer course organized by Boğaziçi University-Deulcom.
McGill University , Dept. of Linguistics
· Summer 2001. Instructor for Introduction to the Study of Language II (104-201L)
· January-May 2001. Teaching Assistant in charge of grading, consultations, occasional lecturing and weekly tutorials for undergraduate students for the course 104-201 Introduction to the Study of Language II .
McGill University , Faculty of Arts
· Sept. 2001-Dec. 2001. Instructor for Introductory Turkish (397-532D).
· Sept. 2000-May. 2001. Instructor for Introductory Turkish (397-532D).
Yeditepe University , Faculty of Education
· September 2005-Present: Instructor for Introduction to Linguistics (ELIT 371), Applied Linguistics ( EDEN 201), Theories of Second Language Acquisition ( EDEN 504), Bilingualism ( EDEN 601).
Theses supervision
Ph.D./ M.A. Theses:
- Filiz Çele (2006-Present: Ph.D thesis). Processing wh-dependencies in L2 English: Subject/Object asymmetry in Wh-extractions.
- Nazik Dinçtopal (2007-M.A thesis completed). Syntactic
Processing in Second Language Acquisition of English.
- Gülay Öztürk (2007- M.A thesis completed). The Processing of Subject-Verb Number Agreement in L2 English by Native Turkish Speakers.
- Fatma Tanış (2007- M.A thesis completed). The End-state L2 Acquisition of Binding Properties of English Reflexives by Adult Turkish Learners of English.
- Gülsen Yılmaz (2006-M.A thesis completed). The acquisition of the English article system by Turkish learners of English.
Theses committee membership
- Yavuz Akbulut (2005). Effects of multimedia annotations on L2 incidental vocabulary learning and reading comprehension of freshman ELT students (Boğaziçi University, M.A in English Language Education)
- Beste Yolcu (2005). Comprehension of reversible sentences in Turkish agrammatism (Boğaziçi University, M.A in Linguistics).
OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- The 16th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association Conference Organization Committee Chair. Date & Place of the conference: 13-16 September 2006, Antalya , Turkey (http://www.eurosla2006.boun.edu.tr/)
- 2004-Present: Assistant manager of the Boğaziçi University Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences
- Sept. 1999-Sept. 2000: Graduate Student Representative, Department of Linguistics, McGill University .
- 1990-1992: Chairperson of Reception Committee of IAESTE (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience), Turkey Branch.
AWARDS
· May 2006 Turkish Academy of Science, Program to Reward Successful Young Scientists 2006 winner (TÜBA-GEBİP: Üstün Başarılı Genç Bilim insanlarını ödüllendirme programı çerçevesinde 2006 başarı ödülü)
· May 2005 Boğaziçi University Foundation (BÜVAK) Award for Excellence in Research in Social Sciences (BÜVAK Sosyal Bilimlerde genç araştırmacılar kategorisinde Araştırmada Üstün Başarı Ödülü-2004)
· 2005-2007 Boğaziçi University Foundation (BÜVAK) Academic Support Award (BÜVAK Akademik Teşvik Ödülü)
· 2004-2007 Boğaziçi University Foundation (BÜVAK) Incentive Award (for publications)
· April 2004 Turkish Academy of Sciences incentive award for publications (TÜBA makale teşvik ödülü)
· 2001-2002 McGill University Social Science and Humanities Doctoral Thesis Research Grant.
· 2001 McGill University Alma Mater Travel Grant.
· 1996-2000 4-year Doctoral Fellowship by the Turkish Higher Education Council.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
English (near-native)
French (advanced reading and writing skills)
Russian (beginner level)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
EUROSLA (European Second Language Association)
The Turkish Brain Research Association
HOBBIES
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