MERVE KIYMAZ-GÜLEN

• Second and third language acquisition
• Instructed second and third language acquisition
• Technology-enhanced language learning, teaching, and assessment
• Language contact
• Bilingualism
• Interactional sociolinguistics

Visiting Positions

Visiting Researcher, The Department of English, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 08/2024 - 09/2024.

• Worked with Prof. Dr. Pekka Lintunen's research team, FlowLang, for a project funded by the Research Council of Finland.
• Project Title: Fluency and Disfluency Features in L2 Speech (FDF2).

Visiting Instructor, The Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 05/2019.

Visiting Instructor, The Department of Applied Linguistics, the University of Economy in Bydgoszcz, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 02/2014 - 03/2014.

Summer Schools

Participant, Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics, The Department of English Language and Literature, University College London, Virtual, 06/2023.

Fellow, Digital Pedagogy Lab, University of Colorado Denver School of Education and Human Development, Virtual, 08/2021.

Participant, 18th Central and Eastern European Summer School in Generative Grammar (EGG), University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 07/2011 - 08/2011.

Izmir Democracy University School of Foreign Languages

Spring 2023 - Present: For the compulsory preparatory school program:

• Basic English courses at pre-intermediate, intermediate, and upper-intermediate levels.

Spring 2023 - Present: For various departments:

• English for Academic Purposes I & English for Academic Purposes II.

Duzce University School of Foreign Languages & Department of English Language Teaching

Fall 2013 - Fall 2023: For the compulsory & optional preparatory school programs:

• Basic English courses at all CEFR levels.

Fall 2013 - Fall 2023: For various departments:

• English for Academic Purposes I & English for Academic Purposes II.

Fall 2021 - Fall 2023: English for Academic Purposes for the ELT students enrolled in the compulsory preparatory program.

Spring 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020: Instructional Technologies and Materials Development in ELT.

Fall 2019 - Spring 2020: Movie Analysis.

Spring 2018: Pedagogical Formation Practicum.

Fall 2015 - Spring 2020: Medical English.

Fall 2016 - Spring 2017: English for Specific Academic Purposes for Computer Engineering.

Fall 2015 - Spring 2016: Business English.

Fellowships

• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Scholarship for Doctoral Students - 2211-E, 03/2022 - Present.
• Digital Pedagogy Lab Fellowship, University of Colorado Denver, School of Education and Human Development, 08/2021.
• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Scholarship for Graduate Students - 2210-A, 10/2020 - 02/2022.
• Ministry of National Education of Turkey (MEB) Merit-Based Exceptional Success Bachelor’s Scholarship, 09/2008 - 06/2012.

Awards

• Travel and Life Expenses Grant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, 09/2019.
• Elected by the Ministry to represent the Republic of Turkey in the transnational cooperation meeting titled, "Enhancing Digital Competences in Education and Training" in Tallinn, Estonia.
• Dean's High Honor List, Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, 06/2013.

Grants

• Erasmus+ KA131 Short-Term Doctoral Traineeship Mobility Grant, Middle East Technical University, International Cooperations Office, 08/2024 - 09/2024.
• TESOL 2021 Convention & English Language Expo Attendance Grant (by nomination), the US Embassy, Regional English Language Office (RELO), 03/2021.
• Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Travel and Life Expenses Grant, Duzce University, International Cooperations Office, 05/2019.
• Coursera Merit-Based Financial Aid for the TESOL Certificate Part 1 offered by Arizona State University, 12/2019.
• Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility Travel and Life Expenses Grant, Duzce University, International Cooperations Office, 02/2014.
• Syntax of World Languages Conference 5 (SWL 5) Travel Grant, University of Zagreb, 10/2012.
• Erasmus+ European Student Mobility Grant, Middle East Technical University, International Cooperations Office, 02/2012 - 08/2012.

International Journal Articles

Kıymaz, M., & Akayoğlu, S. (minor revision). Investigating the effects of video-mediated feedback on L2 oral fluency development. ReCALL.

International Book Chapters  

Kıymaz, M. (in press). Heritage language education in Turkish K-12 schools: A critical policy analysis. In W. Wei & J. Schnell (Eds.), Routledge handbook of the endangered and minority languages. Routledge. 

Kıymaz, M. (in press). The critical turn in telecollaboration for language education: A systematic review of studies published between 2017-2022. In D. Köksal & Ö. Karaağaç-Tuna (Eds.), The intercultural dimension of foreign language teaching, learning and assessment: Theory and practice. IGI Global. 

Kıymaz, M. (in press). Problematizing epistemic (in)justice: A critical autoethnographic quest of a Middle Eastern pracademic. In R. Jain, J. Chen, D. Marissa & E. Trinh (Eds.), Humanizing language pedagogies and teacher education research. Bloomsbury.

Kıymaz, M. (2023). Pedagogically sound: Audio feedback as an alternative to written feedback in distance education: EFL/ESL students’ and teachers’ perceptions and its effectiveness. In G. Yangın-Ekşi, T. Angay-Crowder, L. Anyango-Kivuva & S. Akayoğlu (Eds.), New directions in technology for writing instruction. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13540-8_5

Encyclopedia Entries

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Audio feedback. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Community of inquiry framework. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Digital citizenship. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Screencast feedback. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Video feedback. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

Kıymaz, M. (in preparation). Virtual exchange. In P. Hohaus (ed.), The language of digital education. BRILL.

MA Thesis

Kıymaz, M. (2022). Cultivating L2 oral fluency: The learner uptake in video feedback [Unpublished master's thesis]. Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University. 

Conference Presentations
Kıymaz, M., & Akayoğlu, S. (2022, August 18). Fostering L2 oral fluency through multimodality: The learner uptake in video feedback [Conference session]. European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning Conference (EUROCALL 2022), University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

Kıymaz, M., & Kuleli, M. (2017, May 18). The emergence and development of present progressive aspect in Turkish learners’ interlanguage [Conference session]. An International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language (GlobELT 2017), Hacettepe University, İzmir, Turkey.

Sen, Y., & Kıymaz, M. (2017, May 18). The use of “can” in spoken English by EFL students [Conference session]. An International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language (GlobELT 2017), Hacettepe University, İzmir, Turkey.

Kıymaz, M. (2016, August 24). The bounded rationality model as a decision making strategy in a faculty technology mentoring program: A case study [Poster session]. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Kıymaz, M. (2013, May 3). The comprehension of English idioms by Turkish ELT students [Poster session]. 27. National Linguistics Convention, Hacettepe University, Antalya, Turkey.

Kıymaz, M. (2012, October 13). The contexts limiting the scrambling of wh-constructions in Turkish [Conference session]. 5th Syntax of World Conference (SWL 5), University of Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Researcher, Digitizing Pedagogical Task Design for Interactional Competence - DIGITASK4IC, Hacettepe University, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Universitaet Innsbruck, and Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 07/2021 - 04/2023.

• Supported within the scheme of Erasmus+ KA226 Digital Education Readiness.
• Principal Investigator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman, Project Members: Müge Satar, Eda Üstünel, Sedat Akayoğlu, Merve Kıymaz, Dolors Masats, and Carmen Konzett-Firth.

Organization Committee, International Conference on Writing in Additional Languages (DU- ICOL/Writing), Duzce University, School of Foreign Languages & Department of English Language Teaching, 10/2018.

Organization Committee, Workshop on Current Issues in ELT, Duzce University, School of Foreign Languages, 10/2016.

Organizer, A Workshop on Digital Literacy Skills Through Web 2.0. Sources, Duzce University, School of Foreign Languages, 11/2014.

Student Assistant, The 8th METU International Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching, Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education, 11/2011.

Student Assistant, The 6th International Symposium on Politeness: Corpus Approaches, Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education, 07/2011.

Professional Development Courses

• Teaching Grammar Communicatively, The Online Professional English Network (OPEN) by the U.S. Department of State, Online, 04/2024
• Teach English: Intermediate Grammar Specialization, University of California, Irvine, Online, 03/2024
• NLP - Natural Language Processing with Python, Udemy, Online, 05/2023
• Teaching Pathways: Online Skills for 21st Century Teachers, British Council, Online, 08/2022
• FRAMES - Virtual Exchange and Blended Mobility Integration Training, UNICollaboration, Virtual, 07/2022
• Content-Based Instruction, The Online Professional English Network (OPEN) by the U.S. Department of State, Online, 05/2022
• Item Analysis Workshop, METASIG - TESOL Turkey, Virtual, 02/2022
• Gender in Language Education, British Council, Online, 01/2022
• Integrating Critical Thinking Skills into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting Syllabus, The Online Professional English Network (OPEN) by the U.S. Department of State, Online, 11/2021
• Envisioning Project-Based Language Learning MOOC, National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Virtual, 03/2021
• Blended and Online Learning Design, University College London, Online, 02/2021
• The Purple Certificate, The Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence at Sabancı University (SU Gender), Virtual, 02/2021
• The CALICO Winter Workshop on Online Language Design and Delivery, Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), Virtual, 01/2021
• TESOL Certificate Part 1: Teach English Now! Learn Theory and the Practical Strategies of English as a Second Language Teaching, Arizona State University, Online, 12/2019
• Teacher Development Through Online Learning Training Course - Vocabulary Teaching and Learning (SL-TeDOL-VTL 19), Sabancı University School of Languages, Istanbul, 05/2019
• Sabancı University School of Languages Power-Tech Teacher Training Program by Online Learning Support Project (SL Power-Tech by OLSP), Sabancı University School of Languages, Istanbul, 08/2016
• Sabancı University School of Languages Trainer Education Program (SLTEP), Sabancı University School of Languages, Istanbul, 07/2016
• University of Cologne Intensive German Program, University of Cologne, Cologne, 03/2012

Conferences & Seminars

• TESOL 2021 International Convention & English Language Expo, Virtual, 03/2021
• The 3rd SLTEP Alumni Conference and Meeting, TED University, Ankara, 10/2016
• Oxford Professional Development Program: Teaching 21st Skills with Confidence Seminar, Duzce University School of Foreign Languages, Duzce, 05/2014
• The 8th Workshop on Altaic Formulaic Linguistics (WAFL 8), The Department of Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 05/2012
• The Final Conference of Mobile Learning for Young People at Risk Groups (MLARG), A European Commission-Education & Training- Lifelong Learning Program, Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation Project, Boğaziçi University Foreign Languages Education Department, Istanbul, 10/2011
• Workshop on Functional Categories and Parametric Variation, Boğaziçi University Linguistics Department, Istanbul, 10/2011

2023 - Present:

Academic Journals

Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain

Conferences

Paper/abstract reviews for:

• LSA (Linguistic Society of America)
• AERA (American Educational Research Association)
• EUROCALL (European Association of Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Coursebook Evaluation Panelist, Turkish Ministry of National Education - Commission of Textbook Writing for Secondary Education, Ankara, 05/2022 - 05/2023

Simultaneous Interpreter, II. Turkish Higher Education Women Leadership Improvement and Mentorship Program, Duzce University, Duzce, 10/2014

English Language Tutor, Göreneller Visually-Disabled Primary School, Ankara, 02/2011 - 06/2011

AIESEC Team Leader of Outgoing Global Talent & Teachers, AIESEC Turkey, Ankara, 05/2010 - 06/2013

Languages

Turkish (native)

English (advanced)

German (upper-intermediate reading proficiency)

Technical Skills

Instructional Design: Zoom, Adobe Captivate/InDesign, Canva, Panopto, EdPuzzle, VoiceThread

Learning Management Systems: ODTUClass, MS Teams, Edmodo

Microsoft Office Tools: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive

Corpus and Text Analysis: EXMARaLDA, AntConc

Phonetic Analysis: PRAAT

Syntactic Complexity & Frequency-Based Verb Argument Construction Index Analysis: TAASSC

Qualitative Data Analysis: MAXQDA

Statistical Data Analysis & Visualization: IBM SPSS, R Studio, Python

Surveys: Qualtrics, Google Forms

• AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics)
• CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium)
• ELTER (English Language Teacher Education Research)
• EUROCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
• TESOL (Teachers of English to Speaker of Other Languages International Association)