DİDEM KOBAN KOÇ. Second language acquisition, bilingualism and multilingualism, sociolinguistics and language education

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1 DİDEM KOBAN KOÇ Hacettepe University Faculty of Education Department of Foreign Languages Education English Language Teaching Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey (312) RESEARCH INTERESTS Second language acquisition, bilingualism and multilingualism, sociolinguistics and language education EDUCATION Ph.D Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, U.S.A. Linguistics M.A Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York, U.S.A. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) B.A Faculty of Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

2 FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS October 2012 to present Assistant Professor Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Languages, Division of English Language Teaching, Hacettepe University, November 2009 to Present Erasmus Coordinator Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Languages, Division of English Language Teaching, Hacettepe University, Lecturer /Research Assistant Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Languages, Division of English Language Teaching, Hacettepe University, Instructor English Language Institute, Pace University, New York, U.S.A Full-time English Language Instructor CUNY Language Immersion Program LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, New York, U.S.A English Language Instructor Zoni Language Center, New York, U.S.A English Language Instructor Hello World Language Center New York, U.S.A.

3 Lecturer Graduate School, Department of Multilingual/Multicultural Education, The College of New Rochelle, New York, U.S.A Research Assistant to the Dean School of Education, Dean s Office, New York University, New York, U.S.A Intern American Language Institute, New York University, New York, U.S.A English Language Tutor Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, Public School 91, New York University, New York, U.S.A Intern TED Ankara Koleji, Ankara, Turkey VISITING FACULTY APPOINTMENTS University College Capital, Denmark (November, 2012) Augsburg University, Department of Philology, Augsburg, Germany (Dcember, 2011) Pomeranian University, Department of English Language Teaching, Slupsk, Poland (May, 2011) RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES October 2013 to Present Community Service Coordinator Hacettepe University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Languages, Division of English Language Teaching,

4 October 2013 to Present February 2013 to Present Co-editor International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) Member Education Committee Institute of Educational Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 2013 to Present External Reviewer Hacettepe University Journal of Education April 2011 to Present Co-editor Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies (JLLS) May 21-22, rd International Conference on Managament and Education Innovation (ICMEI), Paris, France May 15-16, th International Symposium of Policies and Issues on Teacher Education (ISPITE 2014), Faculty of Education, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey April 22-25, th International Society for Teacher Education Conference (ISfTE) Antalya, Turkey February 22-23, 2014 International Conference on Education and Psychological Sciences (ICEPS), Barcelona, Spain November 15-16, st International ELT Conference, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

5 November 12-13, 2012 Türkiye de Yabancı Dil Eğitiminde Eğilim Ne Olmalı? 1. Yabancı Dil Eğitimi Çalıştayı, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Languages, Division of English Language Teaching, Hacettepe University, PUBLICATIONS Articles Koban, D. (2013). Intra-sentential and Inter-sentential Code-switching in Turkish- English Bilinguals in New York City.,U.S.A. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences (ELSEVIER), 70, pp Koban, D. (2011). Continuity of reference and subject personal pronoun variation in the Turkish spoken in Turkey and in New York City. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31,3, pp Koban, D. (2010). Linguistic and cultural innovations in the Turkish spoken in New York City: Language and cultural contact. Turkic Languages, 14, pp Koban, D. (2011). A Case Study of Turkish ESL Learners at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, NYC: Error Analysis. International Proceedings of Economics, Development and Research: Languages, Literature and Linguistics, 26, Koban, D., Rothman, D. & Mavergames, C. (2008). The impact of multilingualism on the acquisition of a subsequent language. Multilingualism and Multiple Language Acquisition and Learning, selected papers from the L3 conference in Freiburg/Switzerland 2005, 5, p CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Koban, D. (2013). Workshop participant, Topluma Hizmet Uygulamaları ve Sosyal Sorumluluk Çalıştayı, Hacettepe Universitesi, 30 Kasım-1 Aralık, Ankara. Koban, D. (2013). Identifying Threshold Concepts in Learning about Linguistics by Undergraduate Students at Hacettepe University, Turkey, Shanghai International Conference on Social Sciences, July 11-13, Shanghai, China. Koban, D. (2013). The nongeneric use of the definite article the in writing by Turkish learners of English. International Society for Teacher Education, 33 rd Annual Seminar, May, 27-31, Hong Kong, China. Koban, D. (2012). Intra-sentential and Inter-sentential Code-switching in Turkish-English Bilinguals in New York City, U.S. Akdeniz Language Studies Conference, Akdeniz University, May 9-12, Antalya, Turkey.

6 Koban, D. (2012). The usage of English articles by Turkish Learners: Testing the Fluctuation Hypothesis. Fourth International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language, November, 23-24, Lisbon, Portugal. Koban, D. (2011). A Case Study of Turkish ESL Learners at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, NYC: Error Analysis, International Conference on Languages, Literature and Linguistics (ICLLL 2011), December, 28-30, Dubai, United Emirates. Sarıçoban, A., Koban, D., Can, Nilüfer (2010). Prospective teachers views on the competences they gained from the English language teacher training program. 1 st İstanbul Aydın University International English Language Teaching (ELT) Conference, November 6-7, Aydın University, İstanbul, Turkey. Koban, D. (2010). Overt versus null subject personal pronoun variation in the Turkish spoken in Turkey and in New York City. Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010), November, 11-12, University of Groningen, Groningen, Holland. Koban, D. (2010). Türkiye Türkçesinin New York Şehrinde Ortaya Çıkmaya Başlanan Lehçesi. III. Uluslararası Türkiye Türkçesi Ağız Araştırmaları Çalıştayı, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey. Koban, D. (2010). Continuity of reference and subject personal pronoun variation in the Turkish spoken in Turkey and in New York City. 19th International Postgraduate Linguistics Conference (PLC19) on Language Variation and Change, September, 16-17, Manchester, The United Kingdom. Koban, D. (2010). An analysis of word and phrasal calques in the Turkish spoken in New York City. Language and cultural contact. 15th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August, 20-22, Szeged, Hungary. Koban, D. & Rothman, D. (2005). The impact of multilingualism on the acquisition of a subsequent language. The 4 th Annual International Conference on L3 and Multilingualism, September 8-10, Fribourg University, Switzerland. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS (Present) International Society for Teacher Education (ISfTE) International Economics Development and Research Center (IEDRC) ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS Ph.D. Scholarship, Higher Education Council, Turkey,

7 M.A. Scholarship, Dean s Office, New York University, New York, U.S.A., M.A. Scholarship, Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, New York University, New York, U.S.A., High Honor student, (graduated in 5 th place out of 107 students), Faculty of Education, Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) German Language Scholarship, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (1998).