Bünser Dilara Koçbaş Demir

Title:

Assistant Prof. Dr.

Department:

English Language Teaching Program

Position:

Academic Staff

Email:

bunserdilara@gmail.com

Telephone:

5780000-3191

Office:

GSF-5i01

Time:

Full Time

Akademik

Resume

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Educational Background

Degree	Field	University	Year
Bachelor’s	Sociology	Boğaziçi University	2002
Master’s	Linguistics	Boğaziçi University	2006
Ph.D.	Language and Literacy Education	University of British Columbia	2017

Academic Titles and Positions

Titles

Title	University	Year
Assistant Professor	Yeditepe University	2018

Positions

Positions	University/Institution	Year
Double Major - Minor Program Coordinator	Yeditepe University	2020-2023
Erasmus Coordinator	Yeditepe University	2018–
Faculty Board Member	Yeditepe University	2021-2023

THESES SUPERVISED

Master’s Theses

Canset Günay: “Refusal strategies of Preservice EFL Teachers in Four Speech Acts: Requests, Suggestions, Invitations, and Offers”
İlkyaz Koşar: “Does the instructors’ gender affect students’ motivation?”
Sinem Kaplan: “University Preparatory School Students’ Awareness about Grammar and Pragmatics”
Ekmel Yığman: “Gender Effect on Multilingual Students’ beliefs about learning English as a foreign language”
Rabia Bayram: “Ethnic Diversity and Gender Bias in EFL Textbooks and Materials Developed and Used in Yeditepe University Prep-School”
Dilara Keskin: “The role of Theme and Rheme in Thematic Progression Patterns in English Argumentative Essays by Turkish University Students”
Nilüfer Akbaş: “An investigation of the use of apology strategies by Turkish university EFL (English as a foreign language) students”
Semra Gül: “Exploring in-service non-native EFL teachers` motivation to pursue an MA degree in ELT and its relationship with work motivation: a Socio-contextual approach”
Nilüfer Erol: “The Relationship Between The Level Of Anxiety and Oral and Written Performance”
2023- Şebnem Yılmaz: “The role of reformulation and noticing in improving the grammatical accuracy of B1 level Turkish EFL learners”
2024 - Kerem Başaran: “Turkish EFL learners’ preference for apology strategies across different social variables”

Doctoral Theses

2021 - Emel Küçükali: “Translanguaging Approach by Multilingual Teachers in L2 and L3 Classrooms in a Turkish Context”
Simge Sübaşı: “A Descriptive Study on Intercultural Competence of EFL Teachers and Students”
Özlem Pervan: “Developing Pre-Service EFL Teachers’ Symbolic Competence and their Awareness of it through the use of Drama, Literature and Films"
Selin Ülker Özlem: “The use of translanguaging pedagogies to support the writing skills of Turkish EFL students”

Courses Given

Academic Reading and Writing 1

Academic Reading and Writing 2

Sociolinguistics & English Education

Applied Linguistics

Second Language Learning

Publications

Articles Published in International Peer-Reviewed Journals (SCI & SSCI & Arts and Humanities)

Ural, E., Yüret, D., Ketrez, N., Koçbaş, D. & Küntay, A. (2009). “Morphological Cues vs. Number of Nominals in Learning Verb Types in Turkish: The syntactic bootstrapping mechanism revisited.” Language and Cognitive Processes, 24, 1393-1405.

Papers Presented at International Scientific Meetings

Küçükali, E. & Koçbaş, D. (2021). “The Benefits of Spontaneous Translanguaging Pedagogies on EFL Students’ Language Skills.” Paper presentation at ICRAL 2021 -5th International Conference Research in Applied Linguistics. October 22 – 24, 2021, Bolu – Turkey.
Küçükali, E. & Koçbaş, D. (2021). “Do Language Teachers Affect Their Students' Attitudes to Translanguaging Pedagogies?” Paper presentation at ICRAL 2021-5th International Conference Research in Applied Linguistics. October 22 – 24, 2021, Bolu – Turkey.
Keskin, D. & Koçbaş, D. (2020). Thematic Progression Patterns in English Argumentative Essays by Turkish EFL Students. 5th Çukurova International Scientific Research Congress (October 9-11, 2020).
Koçbaş, D. (2014). “Language practices in migrant and multilingual settings in Istanbul, Turkey.” Paper presentation at the International Symposium on Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, and Societal Implications, October 18, 2014, Koç University, Turkey.
Koçbaş, D. & Akar, D. (2007). “Development of global structure in expository texts: Interaction of genre, coherence, and literacy.” Presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden.
Akıncı, M. A. & Koçbaş, D. (2006). “Literacy development in bilingual contexts: The case of Turkish bilingual and monolingual children and teenagers.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, İzmir: Dokuz Eylül University Press, pp. 547-562.
Davis, B., Kern, S., MacNeilage, P., Koçbas, D., and Zink, I. (2005). “Vocalization Patterns in Canonical Babbling: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective.” In Proceedings of the 10th IASCL, Berlin, Germany.

International Books or Book Chapters

Koçbaş, D., Schroeder C. & Şimşek, Y. (2021). Linguistic resources in the acquisition of writing: A test with Turkish-Kurmanji (Kurdish) bilingual and Turkish monolingual first-graders in Turkey. In: Esra Hack-Cengizalp & Irene Corvacho del Toro (Eds.), Literalität und Mehrsprachigkeit (pp. 71 – 90). Bielefeld: WBV.
Ayan, M. & Koçbaş, D. (2020). Empirical Findings of Turkish Lesson Analysis. In: Christoph Schroeder & Inken Sürig (Eds.), Literacy Acquisition in Schools (pp. 375 – 467). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag.
Koçbaş, D., Schroeder C. & Şimşek, Y. (2020). Comparison of Mono- and Bilingual Pupils in Turkish Class. In: Christoph Schroeder & Inken Sürig (Eds.), Literacy Acquisition in Schools (pp. 467 – 490). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag.
Koçbaş, D. & Sürig, I. (2020). Comparative Lesson Analyses - Seventh Grade. In: Christoph Schroeder & Inken Sürig (Eds.), Literacy Acquisition in Schools (pp. 509 – 542). Potsdam: Universitätsverlag.
Kern, S., Davis, B., MacNeilage, P., Koçbas, D., Küntay, A., & Zink, I. (2014). Cross-Linguistic Similarities and Differences in Babbling: Phylogenetic Implications. In: J.M. Hombert (Ed.), Towards the Origins of Language and Languages.
Küntay, A. C. & Koçbaş, D. (2008). “Effects of lexical items and construction types in English and Turkish character introductions in elicited narrative.” Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Articles Published in National Peer-Reviewed Journals

Küçükali, E., & Koçbaş, D. (2021). Benefits and issues of translanguaging pedagogies on language learning: Students’ perspective. Turkish Online Journal of English Language Teaching (TOJELT), 6(3), 55-85.
Keskin, D. & Koçbaş, D. (2020). The Role of Theme and Rheme in Thematic Progression Patterns in English Argumentative Essays by Turkish University Students. Edu 7: Yeditepe University Faculty of Education Journal, 10 (12), 64-82.
Koçbaş, D. & Akar, D. (2007). “The Development of Referential Chains as a Cohesion Strategy in Expository Writings.” Linguistic Research (Dilbilim Araştırmaları) 2007, Boğaziçi University Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 17-32.

Papers Presented at National Scientific Meetings

Küçükali, E., & Koçbaş, D. (2021). Benefits and issues of translanguaging pedagogies on language learning: Teachers’ perspective. In G. Sönmez (Ed.), Biruni University 1st International English Language Teaching (ELT) Conference: "Catchy Trends in ELT" 2021 (pp. 97-112). Eğiten Kitap.
Koçbaş, D. (2021). The limits of inclusivity in literacy education in Turkey. Inclusive Education: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Workshop. May 8, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published Scientific Reports

Ayan-Ceyhan, M., & Koçbaş, D. (2011). Literacy acquisition in schools in the context of migration and multilingualism. Istanbul: Migration Studies Application and Research Center, Istanbul Bilgi University.
Ayan-Ceyhan, M., & Koçbaş, D. (2009). Bilingualism and education. Istanbul: Education Reform Initiative, Sabancı University. http://erg.sabanciuniv.edu/ciftdilllikveegitim

Published Scientific Translations

Amos, D. B. (1971). Toward a definition of folklore in context. (D. Koçbaş, Trans.), Dance, Music, Culture: Folklore Journal (2002), 64, Boğaziçi University Publications, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1-18.

Projects

2007 - 2010 Istanbul Bilgi University Migration Studies Center, Researcher in the cross-linguistic project “Literacy Acquisition in Schools in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A Comparative Study” supervised by Prof. Christoph Schroeder and funded by Volkswagen Foundation (Germany).
2006 – 2007 Koç University Department of Psychology, Research Assistant in the cross-linguistic project “Early Grammar Productivity: Two Languages, Comprehension” supervised by Prof. Aylin Küntay and Prof. Letitia Naigles (University of Connecticut, USA) and funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
2002 – 2006 Koç University Department of Psychology, Research Assistant in the longitudinal and cross-linguistic project “The Emergence and Early Development of Language” funded by Eurocores, European Science Foundation (ESF).

Awards

2008 – University of British Columbia Faculty of Education Graduate Award.
2009-2013 University of British Columbia University Graduate Fellowship.

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Küçükali, E., & Koçbaş, D. (2021). Benefits and issues of translanguaging pedagogies on language learning: Teachers’ perspective. In G. Sönmez (Ed.), Biruni University 1st International English Language Teaching (ELT) Conference: "Catchy Trends in ELT" 2021 (pp. 97-112). Eğiten Kitap.

Koçbaş, D. (2021). The limits of inclusivity in literacy education in Turkey. Inclusive Education: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Workshop. May 8, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey.