Işıl Erduyan

INVITED TALKS:

"İstanbul'un Çeşitlenen Dil Profili," paper presented at SALT Galata, December 14, 2024, İstanbul.

"Globalizing World, Sociolinguistics and the Foreign Language Education," paper presented at the TÜBİTAK 2237 Sociolinguistics Event, October 2-4, 2024, Dicle University, Diyarbakır.

"Literacy in the Heritage Language Classroom and Beyond: Focusing on Students with Migration Background," paper presented at the Language and Literacy in Migration Contexts International School (BIP), June 3-7, 2024, Brno, Czech Republic.

"Ulusötesi Göçün Bir Sonucu Olarak Türkiye'de Çok Dillilik: Kuramlar, Bağlamlar, Öngörüler," paper presented at Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Graduate Program in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language, April 29, 2024. (online)

“Göç ve Dil (Migration and Language)," seminar at the joint BULING & BÜSOT event, March 20, 2024, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul.

“Interculturality and New Migration Contexts: The Case of Istanbul,” paper presented at the International Congress on Interculturality and Equity in Language Education, November 23-24, 2023, İstanbul.

“Living and Researching Interculturality: Evolving Realities, Diversifying Contexts, and Multilingual Subjectivities,” paper presented at the EURODIE 1^st Virtual Multiplied Event, Interculturality-Sensitive Research in Language Education Program, March 22, 2023. (online)

 “Teaching and Researching in a Globalized World,” panel discussion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate Student Symposium, April 2, 2022. (online)

 “A Linguistic Anthropological Perspective on the German-Turkish Interface in the Context of 60 Years of Migration History," paper presented at the Turkology Group Meeting, February 8, 2021. (online)

“Studying Language in 'Real-life': Insights from Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, and Linguistic Ethnography," paper presented at the Critical and Cultural Studies Program, April 12, 2021, Boğaziçi University. (online)

“Multilingual Fieldwork: Researcher and the Field,” paper presented at Summer Semester Seminar on Code-Switching, July 1, 2017, Humboldt University, Berlin. (online)

“Ethnographic Research Concerns: Fieldwork and Beyond,” paper presented at the School of Education, Curriculum and Instructional Technology, November 12, 2014, Iowa State University, IA. (online)

"Researcher and Researched in Multilingual Ethnography: Perspectives from a Berlin High School," paper presented at the Department of German, May 7, 2013, University of Wisconsin-Madison [simultaneous video-conference at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany, Faculty of Philosophy, Program in Intercultural Education].

“Multilingual Subjectivity in Linguistic Ethnography: Meeting the Native in the Diaspora,” paper presented at the Language Institute, March 11, 2013, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI.

“Ethnographic Research at a Kreuzberg Gymnasium: Notes from the Field,” paper presented at the Intercultural Communication and European Studies (ICEUS), April 19, 2011, Fulda University, Fulda, Germany. 

“Linguistic Construction of Identity: Turkish Youth in Kreuzberg,” paper presented at the Center for Language, Variation, and, Migration (SVM), December 8, 2010, Potsdam University, Berlin, Germany.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

"Hegemonik Gücün Söylemsel İnşasında Anlatımsal ve Olgusal Söylem (Ideational and Factual Discourse in the Construction of Hegemonic Power)," paper presented at the 38th National Linguistics Congress, 22-23 May 2025, Atatürk University, Erzurum."

Multilingualism in İstanbul at the Juncture of Diachronicity and Synchronicity," paper to be presented at the Languages in the City Conference, April 7-8, 2025, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

"Alternative Literacies in Classroom Discourse: Looking into an Urban Middle-school Classroom in İstanbul," paper presented at the Symposium on Languages and Literacy in Migration Contexts, ELN Literacy Summit, March 10-12, 2025 Cologne, Germany.

"Dilbilimsel Etnografide Ölçek ve Kronotop İlişkisi: Türkiye'deki Almanlara Bakış (The Relationship Between Scale and Chronotope in Linguistic Ethnography: A View on Germans in Turkey)," paper presented at the 37th National Linguistics Congress, 16-17 May 2024, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli.

“Scale-making against the binaries: The case of multilingual German women in İstanbul,” paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, July 13-16, 2022,  Ghent, Belgium. (online)

“Contemporary Linguistic Diversity in İstanbul,” panel chaired at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, July 13-16, 2022, Ghent, Belgium. (online)

 “Multiple Faces of Linguistic Inequality: The German-Turkish Interface Reversed,” paper presented at the AILA, August, 2021, Groningen, NL. (online)

“Multilingual Germans in Istanbul: A Linguistic Ethnographic Perspective,” paper presented at the International Conference on Multilingual Practice, February 24-26, 2020, University of Szczecin, Poland.“A scalar perspective into Turkish as a Heritage Language instruction in Germany,” paper presented at the Turkish in Europe Workshop, July 12, 2019, Hildesheim University, Germany.

“Scalar Analysis and Task-Based Language Learning: A Microethnographic Classroom Perspective. International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME19), March 21-22, 2019, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld, Germany.

“Timescales and Multilingual Talk: Insights from Three Language Classes,” paper presented at the 10^th International Conference on Multilingualism and Third Language Acquisition, September 1-3, 2016, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

“Analyzing multilingual identity construction across three language classes: Timescales and linguistics performances,” paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 21 (SS21), June 15-18, 2016, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

“Turkish at School in Berlin: A Closer Look at Prevailing Discourses,” paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism 10 (ISB10), May 20-24, 2015, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

“Circulating discourses and their reception in the classroom: the case of Turkish in Berlin,” paper presented as part of the panel “Development in Turkish varieties and identities in North Western Europe”, at the Second International Conference on Heritage Language, March 7-8, 2014, UCLA.

“When the Turkey-Turk Meets the German-Turk: Linguistic- Ethnographic Construction of Multilingual Subjectivity,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 20-24, 2013, Chicago, IL.

“Generation Next: Multilingualism and Linguistic Prospects in Germany,” paper presented at the International Conference on Turkish Migration in Europe, December 7-9, 2012, Regent’s College, London, UK.

“Berlin, Belonging, and Language: What Space Tells Us,” paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 (SS19), August 21-24, 2012, Free University, Berlin, Germany.

"Restructuring (in) the language classrooms: Multilingual Urban Turkish Youth in Berlin," paper presented at the 11th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism (NCB), June 14-16, 2012, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Liminality in Turkish Students’ Monolingual Interactions,” paper presented at the 4th Turkish in Northwestern Europe Symposium (TINWE), 12-13 June, 2012, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The Ausländer Goes Global: Constructing Turkishness in Berlin,” paper presented at the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Graduate Student Symposium, April 13-14, 2012, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 

“Constructing Identity Through Space Across Language Classes: Turkish Berliners at School," paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL), March 24-27, 2012, Boston, MA.

“Transnational Immigrant Identities in Language Classes: The Turkish Berliners,” paper presented at the International Symposium on Bilingualism 8 (ISB8), June 15-18, 2011, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

“Language Identities of the Turkish Youth in Kreuzberg, Berlin,” paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 18 (SS18), September 1-4, 2010, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

“Online, Offline, Both, or Neither? Travelling Among Multiple Identities in a Computer-Mediated Interview,” paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL), March 6-9, 2010, Atlanta, GA.

“Intermingling Research Identities”, paper presented in a panel titled “Researchers and the Researched: A Critical Approach to Interview Data”, at the International Society for Language Studies (ISLS), June 11-13, 2009, Orlando, FL.

“Teaching Writing in Both Worlds: Notes From an NNS Writing Teacher”, paper presented at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, June 5-7, 2008, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

SELECTED CONFERENCE CO-PRESENTATIONS

Barutçuoğlu, D. & Erduyan, I. "The meso-level timescale of the dinner table: Multilingual interactions of Italian-Turkish couples," paper presented at the Family Language Policy Conference, October 22-23, 2024, University of Galway, Ireland. (online)

Erduyan, I. & Akgün, H. "Multi-scalar construction of heritage language identity: Mardin Arabic across generations and contexts," paper  presented at the 57th Annual Conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), September 5-7, 2024, The University of Essex, UK.

"Erduyan, I. & Akgün, H. “Multi-scalar construction of ordinariness and innovation: Mardin-Arabic as a heritage language in Turkey," paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 25, June 24-27, 2024, Curtin University, Perth, Australia. (online)

Lundqvist, U. & Erduyan, I. “Syncretic Literacy Practices Among Arab Heritage Students in Denmark,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA), March 6-8, 2024, Malmö University, Sweden.

Özçelik, M. & Erduyan, I. “Linguistic manifestation of trauma within the narratives of violence survivor women” paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Language and Trauma, March 8-10^th, 2023, Essen, Germany. (online)

Erduyan, I. & Bayyurt, Y. “With a view to multilingualism as an inherent characteristic of English as a Lingua Franca” paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, July 13-16, 2022, Ghent, Belgium. (online)

Erduyan, I., Bektaş-Yüksel, S., & Şentürk, H. “Language Teachers’ Responses to Multilingual Classrooms: A Linguistic Ideological Perspective,” paper presented at ELF DAY 5: ENRICHing Pedagogical Issues and Concerns in ELF Research, 27 February 2021 (online).

Erduyan, I. & Bozer, E. M. “Multilingual Study Abroad Identities: Japanese Learners of Turkish,” paper presented at the International Conference on Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices (MMLPP19), 14-15 December 2019, Charles University, Prague.