Middle East Technical University

Faculty Member, Foreign Language Education

Assist.Prof.Dr.

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Dr. Isik-Guler has been working at METU, Department of Foreign Language Education since 2000.  Here she mainly teaches research methods, linguistics, language skills and language teaching methodology courses as well as practicum. She has earned her PhD degree in English Language Teaching -working in the field of pragmatics and more specifically on emic conceptualisations of (im)politeness.

She has also taught Turkish Language and Culture courses in the US (at Mercyhurst College, Department of World Languages and Cultures) during 2005-2006. Between 2008-2009, she has completed a year of post-doctoral research in the UK (at the University of Warwick, Centre for Applied Linguistics) on corpus development.

Her major research interests include pragmatics and discourse analysis, (im)politeness theories, intercultural communication, and corpus linguistics (i.e. computer assisted corpus transcription, annotation and analysis) as well as foreign language teacher training.

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