Hilal Ergül

University of Northern Iowa | UNI · Department of Languages and Literatures

In this paper we discuss two development of the smiling intensity scale (SIS), a scale developed to assess the intensity of smiling (with laughter as the upper end of the scale). SIS has several advantages, vis-à-vis using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), including being simpler and faster to implement and notably cheaper, while being equall...

Participation in experimental studies can be conceptualized as Goffmanian frames, i.e. a set of rules which include the fact the experimenter will be observing participant behavior through (the recording of) the experiment. This study is focused on frame breaches in 16 video- and audio-recorded dyadic conversations taking place in an experimental s...

This paper builds on a novel methodology of lexical semantics exemplified on lexical field theory by using several translations of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The present study, a large-scale collaboration, presents and compares the results for laugh, smile, grin, giggle, and other words for laughter behaviors across 14 languages a...

This study reports on the little-examined relationship of mitigation, smiling, and oral corrective feedback (i.e., error correction) in language classrooms. Oral corrective feedback constitutes a staple teaching strategy prevalent in most language classrooms, and it is facilitative of second language acquisition (Mackey, 2020; Nassaji and Kartchava...

Oral Corrective Feedback is a widely used teaching strategy that has been found to help language acquisition. The factors that contribute to its effectiveness, however, remain elusive. In this study, the role of smiling during teachers’ OCF provision is investigated in intact language classrooms by modifying the analytical framework developed by Ly...