Selahattin Yılmaz

Selahattin Yılmaz
Yıldız Technical University · School of Foreign Languages

Applied Linguistics

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Education
August 2016 - January 2021
Georgia State University
Field of study
  • Applied Linguistics
September 2013 - June 2016
Boğaziçi University
Field of study
  • Foreign Language Education
September 2009 - June 2013
Marmara University
Field of study
  • English Language Teaching

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Publications (17)
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The integration of English into the education domain continues to expand steadily. Language policies in educational institutions are shaped according to the English requirements of respective countries. With the recognition of English as a lingua franca, it has taken on a significant role as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Turkish universities,...
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The unprecedented adoption of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in higher education on a global scale has brought about challenges as well as opportunities for students, which necessitates a careful consideration of factors impacting their perceptions and experiences. Recognizing this critical need, our study attaches significant importance to delve...
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Critical writing seeks to enhance university students' ability to think causally and reason effectively, and this improvement should be evident in their language use in the assignments. An example of such language is interactional metadiscourse, the expression of attitudes and opinions in line with the intended audience. In pursuit of these objecti...
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This chapter demonstrates several reflective, data-driven, and research-informed activities to help teacher educators familiarize student teachers with the current state of English academic writing. Hands-on corpus-based activities can provide a kind of exposure that goes beyond what is provided in instructional materials and sources of reference f...
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English writing is becoming increasingly crucial to university students’ academic success internationally. However, essay rating is subject to variability between raters (Cumming, Kantor, & Powers, 2002). Current research suggests that factors such as raters’ backgrounds and local assessment policies and practices complicate the essay rating experi...
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With English being the global language of research, academic English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research has gained wide recognition. While early research showcased the dynamic nature of spoken academic ELF, written academic ELF, a more recent focus of research, remains to be under-studied. However, not only are there known differences between speaki...
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This study aimed to investigate the role of nativeness and expertise on reporting practices in writing with regards to patterns of use and construction of stance. The study compared four corpora of research articles and papers in the field of applied linguistics written by expert native English writers, Turkish non-native expert English writers, no...
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Using data from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) and the British National Corpus (BNC), this article examines what Turkish learners of English know about a set of frequent verb-argument constructions (VACs, such as ‘V with n’ as illustrated by ‘I like to go with the flow’) and in what ways their VAC knowledge is influenced by nati...
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Recent approaches to teacher education that rely on sociocultural theory and the notion of identity construction focus on theoretically-informed practice by providing ways needed to help teachers realize, understand, and evaluate their own learning processes, thus raising independent professionals (Richards,2008; Leung,2009). This makes learning an...
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Smartphones are increasingly becoming an ordinary part of our daily lives. With their remarkable capacity, applications used in these devices are extremely varied. In terms of language teaching, the use of these applications has opened new windows of opportunity, innovatively shaping the way instructors teach and students learn. This 4 week-long st...
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A great deal of citation practices is performed with reporting verbs and the verbs can have various functions that can show how writers position themselves within the research context that they work in differing levels such as neutrally reporting previous research or taking an evaluative stance towards the cited work or the author (Swales, 1990, Th...
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As one of the building blocks of academic discourse, citing others’ work enables intertextual connections to build a successful argument, and by citing others’ work, writers create not only a link between their research and previous related studies, but also their place in the related field of study (Swales, 1990;Hyland, 1999; Charles, 2006). Of th...
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Paper presented at 9th International IDEA Conference

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