Işıl Erduyan

Boğaziçi University · Department of Foreign Language Education

This study inquires how students of Arab heritage in an urban setting in Denmark interpret Islamic literacy artefacts available in their homes, and how these interpretations reflect broader faith literacy practices in the students’ diaspora community. Through a linguistic ethnographic study design students have been invited to photograph literacy a...

With the current situation of the political turmoil in Northern Iraq, Turkey has been a natural destination country for thousands of refugees escaping the war, including the Iraqi Turkmens. Being native speakers of Turkmen-Turkish and Arabic, Iraqi Turkmen refugees go through confrontations about linguistic ideologies with the local Turkish communi...

The Bourdieusian notion of symbolic violence can be analyzed as one form of domestic violence as it feeds patriarchal norms, validates men’s domination, and thereby contributes to and reproduces the subordination of women (Morgan, & Björkert, 2006). While trauma caused by physical violence can be a matter of linguistic inquiry in terms of its effec...

The present study aims to explore English language teachers’ (ELTs) responses to a set of activities regarding multilingualism on an online Continuous Professional Development (CPD) course platform. The CPD was developed in the framework of the Erasmus+ Project, ENRICH (English as a Lingua Franca Practices for Inclusive Multilingual Classrooms) des...

The construct of multilingualism (ML) with English has been acknowledged in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and, to some extent, multilingualism in applied linguistics. Implying the encompassing position of multilingualism (Jenkins, 2015), the construct has come to refer to multilingual repertoires in which English takes one part. In...

Göçmen çokdilliliği oldukça politize edilmiş bir olgudur. Ancak insanlığın doğuşu kadar eski bir kavram olan çokdillilik göç hareketinin en önemli sonucudur denebilir. Dil olmadan ekonomik ve politik sistemler yürümez, insanlar birbirleriyle iletişime geçemez, kısacası hareket olmaz. Sosyal bilimlerdeki göç literatürü genel olarak dile çok kısıtlı...

The construct of Multilingualism with English has been acknowledged in the field of ELF and, to some extent, multilingualism in applied linguistics. Implying the encompassing position of multilingualism (Jenkins, 2015), the construct has come to refer to multilingual repertoires in which English takes one part. In this sense, it differs from cases...

Against the background of the current expansion in study abroad identity scholarship, this paper is situated within research on non-Western students enrolled in study abroad programs based in non-Western countries. Focusing on multilingual Japanese undergraduates who studied in Turkey for a year and returned home 3-4 years ago as highly advanced sp...

Discourse and identity practices in heritage language contexts have received significant attention in applied linguistics in recent years. One line of research in this realm has sought to adopt scales, the spatiotemporal niches within which social identification and learning take place. This paper problematizes modernity as a scale of its own and i...

In the context of an increasingly expanding body of literature on scalar analyses of linguistic practices, this paper turns the gaze to a highly advanced level Turkish heritage language classroom at a Gymnasium in central Berlin and focuses on a 10th grade student in his linguistic identity construction. Based on the findings from linguistic ethnog...

In this article, I investigate the construction and enactment of multilingual subjectivity in the process of linguistic ethnographic fieldwork drawing on my fieldwork experience at a Berlin high school heavily populated by Turkish students. I discuss how constructing subjectivity is inherently related to the researcher’s multilingual resources, as...

Drawing on a larger linguistic ethnographic project (Erduyan, 2019), this chap- ter focuses on the incorporation of urban, Turkey-Turkish speech style into the Turkish heritage language classroom discourse in the context of Germany. Adopting a microethnographic framework through scalar lenses, the analyses center on naturally occurring word search...

Focusing on a group of multilingual German-Turkish students enrolled at an urban high-school in Berlin, this paper inquires how ELF identities and transnational experiences inform each other. Semistructured, audio-recorded interviews conducted as part of a larger project (Erduyan, 2019) are analyzed through microethnographic lenses informed by a sc...

Learners moving and learning languages across contexts have always been natural subjects of applied linguistics research. In recent years, however, teachers' mobility across contexts and their temporary work and stay due to internationalization in education has been an equally important development. While research on language teacher identity is no...

This book focuses on multilingual identity construction across language classrooms at a multiethnic downtown high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin. Through linguistic ethnographic lenses, the analyses center on five multilingual students of Turkish descent in their interactions in German, Turkish, and English classes throughout three academic semesters...

In his model of classroom social identification and learning, Wortham (2006. Learning Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press) conceptualizes identity processes as enveloped within multiple timescales unfolding simultaneously in varying paces. For Wortham (2008. “Shifting Identities in the Classroom.” In Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse...

Turkish instruction has entered the school system in Berlin in the 1980s as a response to the increase in the school-age children within the Turkish community. In neighborhoods with a high population of Turkish residents, schools at various levels have come to offer Turkish as an elective foreign language. Moreover, Turkish is offered as one of the...