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Academic Experience

2017   Associate Professorship      Üniversiteler Arası Kurul Başkanlığı (UAK)

2008   Ph.D.  Linguistics, Hacettepe University, Turkey

2004   M.A.   Linguistics, University of Southern California, LA.US

2002   M.A.   Linguistics, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

2000   B.A.   English Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

(with minor in Linguistics)

Work and Related Experience

 

Turkish Tutor, Ankara, Turkey                September 2018- present

• American, German, Dutch, Swiss and Norwegian Embassies

Providing Private Turkish lessons to the German Ambassador, Dutch Ambassador, Norwegian Ambassadrice, Swiss Defense Attache and American Embassy diplomats.

Instructor, Hacettepe University, Ankara      January 2018- February 2021

• teaching graduate courses (masters and PhD level) in the Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language Department, training future Turkish instructors. Teaching the following courses:

Language and Culture, Language Learning Theories, Preparing teaching Materials

Consultant, TURENG online dictionary, Ankara    August 2020- August 2021

• Working in the Turkish translation team to translate idioms
• Providing translations and exemplary sentences for synonyms
• Assisting Turkish lexicon development, editing entries

Consultant, Ntent, San Diego CA           August 2016- July 2018

• Working in the Turkish team to develop a search engine in Turkey
• Responsible for checking the linguistic and semantic features of search commands
• Assisting corpus development, semantic processing, Turkish lexicon development, search quality evaluation

Collaborator, Florida Atlantic University, Davie FL          November 2013- November 2016

• Coding data in Dr. Erika Hoff’s Language Development Lab
• Working on a project analyzing the use of relative clauses in child-directed speech, investigating how complex structures help cognitive development

Member of the Executive Board, Okan International University, FL            November 2013- 2018

• Responsible for setting up the Language Program, interviewing & selecting teachers
• Overviewing the lesson plans, class syllabuses
• Reporting directly to the President, and the CEO

Post-Doc researcher, ODTU Babylab, Ankara   October 2011- October 2013

TUBITAK Project 111K226 ‘Early sensitivity of Turkish infants to vowel harmony and word stress’ (bebem.ii.metu.edu.tr), language development project for 6 and 10-month-old babies.

• Responsible for the whole project: for setting up the lab, selecting & training assistants, recruiting participants, analyzing data, and writing up publications and reports
• Sole responsible for media relations and the social media profile of the project

Instructor, Hacettepe University, Ankara            September 2010- August 2011

• teaching three undergraduate courses in the Linguistics Department:

Translation I, Translation Criticism, English Speaking, Turkish English Contrastive Analysis

Instructor, Institut Libre Marie-Haps, Brussels          March 2008- July 2010

• Taught the Consecutive translation English- Turkish/ Turkish- English, On-site translation and Liaison translation courses to M.A. students

Turkish instructor, mostly though Communiciad & CLL Language School Brussels                               June 2007- July 2010

• to interpreters at the European Parliament and European Commission (private classes)
• preparing syllabus, exams and course material for the Turkish department
• private classes at the European Parliament (MEPs) and European Commission
• private classes to individuals for beginners, intermediate levels and advanced levels

Teaching Assistant, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey  September 2005- September 2006

Taught 6 undergraduate courses: Structure of Modern Turkish, Research Methods, Turkish- English Contrastive Analysis, Reading and Analyzing Texts, Speaking II

Teaching Assistant, USC, Los Angeles, CA                     Fall 2003

• Taught the course “Language and Mind” (with Prof. Hagit Borer) and computer labs to 60 students

Instructor, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey     Summers 2007, 2003, 2001 at the Turkish Language and Culture Program

Assisted teaching writing, reading and speaking Turkish to a total of 65 foreigners at different proficiency levels

Teaching Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul               Sept. 2000- 2002

• Teaching assistant for the courses Structure of Modern Turkish and Introduction to Linguistics

Teaching Assistant, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul    Summers 2000, 1999, 1998 at the Turkish Language and Culture Program

Taught in the Language Laboratory and over 5 hours of conversation classes per week to a total of 120 students

Publications (can be further documented upon request)

Books

• Altan, Aslı & Aka, Elif. 2017. Türkçe Okuyalım Yazalım. Papatya Bilim Yayınevi. ISBN: 978-605-9594-11-0.
• Altan, Aslı. 2008. The Influence of Vowel Harmony in an Artificial Language System For Turkish Native Speakers. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. ISBN 978-3-639-10753-1.https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=vowel+harmony+asli+altan

Book Chapters

• Hoff, E, Altan, A & Altınkamış, F. 2017. Frequency of complex structures in the English of monolingual and bilingual children between 30-42 months. 45. yıl yazıları, pp.1-19. Hacettepe University Publishing.
• Yavaş, Mehmet & Altan, Aslı. 2016. Vowel Epenthesis in the Acquisition of English /s/ Clusters by Turkish Speakers. D. Akar, M.Güven, B. Öztürk (eds.). Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in Honour of Eser E. Erguvanlı-Taylan in the Studies in Language Companion Series. John Benjamins.
• Altan, Aslı. 2009. Acquisition of Vowel Harmony. In Dilbilim 35. yıl Yazıları. Multilingual: Ankara. 9-26.

International Conference Proceedings

• With Akyol, Gülçin. “A Case Study on the Use of Speech Acts Through Refusal Strategies by L2 Turkish Learners”. 3^rd American Association of Turkic Teachers (AATT) Conference. University of Texas, Austin. November 14^th, 2018.
• With Kaya, U. & Hohenberger, A. 2016. “Sensitivity of Turkish Infants to Vowel Harmony in Stem-Suffix Sequences in the First Year of Life: Preference Shift from Familiarity to Novelty”, 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston University, Boston. November 14^th, 2016. Available online at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2016/09/BUCLD_Proceedings_2016_01_25_altan1.pdf

• With Hohenberger, A. & Kaya, U. “Early sensitivity of 6- and 10-month-old monolingual Turkish infants to vowel harmony”, poster presented 13^th International Association for the Study of Child Language. Amsterdam, Holland. July 17^th, 2014.

• Altan, Aslı. 2012. Relative Clauses in L2 Turkish. Paper presented in 16^th International Turkish Linguistics Conference, METU.
• Altan, Aslı. 2011, September 8-9. Subject use in L2 Turkish. 4^rd International Conference on Teaching Turkish. Sakarya Üniversitesi, Adapazarı.
• Altan, Aslı. 2011, May. The Errors and Generalizations in L2 Turkish. Ankara Linguistics Circle, METU Cognitive Science Department.
• Altan, Aslı. 2011. The mistakes and Generalizations by L2 Turkish speakers on vowel harmony. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Teaching Turkish. D. Günay, Ö. Fidan, B. Çetin, F. Yıldız (eds.) 35-47. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi: İzmir.
• Altan, Aslı. 2007, January. Acquisition of vowel harmony in Turkish poster presented at Old World Conference in Phonology 4, Rhodes, Greece.
•  Altan, Aslı with Gökçe- Peters, S. 2011. Avrupa Birliği Kurumları’nda Türkçe Öğretimi. Türkçe Öğretimi üzerine Çalışmalar. D. Günay, Ö. Fidan, B. Çetin, F. Yıldız (eds.) 179-191. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi: İzmir.
• Sofu, Hatice and Altan, Aslı. 2009. Partial Reduplication Revisited, In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Sıla Ay, Özgür Aydın, Iclâl Ergenç, Seda Gökmen, Selçuk Işsever, Dilek Peçenek (eds.). Harrosowitz Verlag: Weisbaden. 63-73.
• Altan, Aslı. 2006, August. Acquisition of a Null Subject Language. Paper presented at 13th International Conference of Turkish Linguistics. Uppsala University, Sweden.

National Conference Proceedings

• Altan, Aslı; Kaya, Utku; Tuncer, Özgün; Avcu, Enes & Hohenberger, Annette. 2015. In Proceedings of 27th National Linguistics Conference. 6 ve 10 aylık bebeklerin kök ek dizilişlerinde Türkçedeki ünlü uyumuna duyarlılığı. N.Büyükkantarcıoğlu, I. Özyıldırım, E. Yarar, E. Yağlı (eds.) Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları. 42-51.
  • Altan, Aslı & Altınkamış, Feyza & Sofu, Hatice. 2015. Properties of Relative Clauses in Child Directed Speech. In Proceedings of 27th National Linguistics Conference. N.Büyükkantarcıoğlu, I. Özyıldırım, E. Yarar, E. Yağlı (eds.), Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları. 51-60.
  • Altan, Aslı. 2012. Complement Clauses in L2 Turkish. Türkçe Öğretiminde Güncel Çalışmalar. M. Aksan & Y. Aksan (eds.) Mersin University. 11-20. Mersin Üniversitesi, Tübitak.
  • Altan, Aslı. 2012. Choice of subject pronoun use by speakers learning L2 Turkish. Türkçenin Eğitimi- Öğretimi Üzerine Çalışmalar. E. Yılmaz, M. Gedizli, E. Özcan, Y. Koçmar (eds.) Mersin University. 313-321. Pegem Akademi.
  • Altan, Aslı. 2007. Acquisition of Epenthesis in Turkish. In Proceedings of XXIth National Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Yeşim Aksan & Mustafa Aksan (eds.) Mersin University, Mersin. 26-34
  • Altan, Aslı. 2006. Acquisition of word order in Turkish. In Proceedings of XXth National Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Maltepe University, İstanbul. 51-61.
• Altan, Aslı. 2005. Analysis of the Acquisition of Complementation in Turkish Naturalistic Data. Proceedings of XIXth National Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Mustafa Sarı & Halef Nas (eds.) 9-30. Harran University, Şanlıurfa.

Journal Articles (can be further documented upon request)      

• with Ilgaz, H & Haşimoğlu, S. 2021. Turkish Mothers’ Use of Complementation in Storytelling. Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Linguistics Research). DOI: 10.18492/dad.762679
• Altan, A., Kaya, U. and Hohenberger, A. 2016. Sensitivity of Turkish Infants to Vowel Harmony in Stem-Suffix Sequences in the First Year of Life: Preference Shift from Familiarity to Novelty, in J. Scott and D. Waughtal (eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, USA, Somerville: Cascadilla Press. http://www.bu.edu/bucld/files/2016/09/BUCLD_Proceedings_2016_01_25_altan1.pdf
• Altınkamış, Feyza & Altan, Aslı. 2015. A usage-based approach into the acquisition of relative clauses in Turkish. Dilbilim Araştırmaları (Language Research Journal). Boğaziçi University Press. Available online at: http://dad.boun.edu.tr/tr/download/article-file/224728
• Altan, Aslı. 2016. Relative Clauses in L2 Turkish. Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi (Language and Literature Journal). Cilt 13, Sayı 1. Mersin University. available at: http://ded.mersindilbilim.info/tr/pub/issue/19516/207872
• Altan, Aslı. 2015. Politeness Strategies used by L2 Turkish Speakers in making Requests. International Journal of Language Academy. 270-294. Available online at: https://ijla.net/?mod=makale_tr_ozet&makale_id=29249
• Altan, Aslı. 2012. Complement Clauses in L2 Turkish. Türkçe Öğretiminde Güncel Çalışmalar. Aksan & Y. Aksan (eds.) Mersin University, Tübitak.11-20.
• Altan, Aslı. 2012. Choice of subject pronoun use by speakers learning L2 Turkish. In Türkçenin Eğitimi- Öğretimi Üzerine Çalışmalar. Yılmaz, M. Gedizli, E. Özcan, Y. Koçmar (eds.) Mersin University. 313-321. Pegem Akademi.
• Altan, Aslı. 2011. The Influence of vowel harmony on Turkish speakers learning an artificial language. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. Yıl: 8, sayı 14. 27-45.
• Altan, Aslı. 2009. Çocuklar iki farklı anlamı olan bir takıyı öğrenebilir mi? Türkçede -DIr Takısının Edinimi. Hacettepe University, Journal of Faculty of Letters. Number 2, vol.26. pp 33-47. Available online at: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/615553
• Altan, Aslı. 2008. What experimental data tells us about acquisition of complementation in Turkish. Turkic Languages, 12. Lars Johanson (ed.) pp. 122- 148. Harrowitz Verlag, Weisbaden.

• Altan, Aslı with Aslan, Erhan. 2006, September. The Role of –(s)I in Turkish Indefinite Nominal Compounds. In Language Journal, 131. 57-74. http://dergiler.ankara.edu.tr/dergiler/27/755/9632.pdf

Conference Presentations

•  Yavaş, Mehmet & Altan, Aslı. 2014. Vowel epenthesis in the acquisition of English /s/-Clusters by Turkish speakers. Linguistics Colloquia. Florida International University, Miami.

• Altan, Aslı. 2014. Early Sensitivity of Turkish babies to vowel harmony. Linguistics Colloquia. Florida International University, Miami.
• Altan, Aslı; Kaya, Utku; Tuncer, Özgün; Avcu, Enes & Hohenberger, Annette. In Proceedings of 27th National Linguistics Conference. 6 ve 10 aylık bebeklerin kök ek dizilişlerinde Türkçedeki ünlü uyumuna duyarlılığı. 27th National Linguistics Conference. Hacettepe University, Antalya. Turkey. 2-4 May 2013.
  • Altan, Aslı & Kaya, Utku & Hohenberger, Annette. 2013. Early Sensitivity of Turkish babies to vowel harmony. Poster presented at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research IX : Lectures and hands-on sessions on practical aspects of language acquisition research. January 30 – February 1, 2013. Utrecht University.
• Hohenberger, A. , Altan, A. And Kaya, U. 2014. Early sensitivity of 6- and 10-month-old monolingual Turkish infants to vowel harmony, Amsterdam, Holland, poster presented 13^th International Association for the Study of Child Language.
•  2011, September 8-9. Özne Kullanımı konusunda Türkçeyi Yabancı Dil olarak Kullanan Konuşmacıların Seçimleri. 4. Türkçenin Eğitimi ve Öğretimi Kurultayı. Sakarya Üniversitesi, Adapazarı.
  • 2011, July 11-13. Too polite or impolite? Politeness Strategies used by Foreigners Learning Turkish. Presented at the 6th International Symposium on Politeness: Corpus Approaches. METU, Ankara.
  • 2011, May. Türkçe Öğrenen Yabancıların Ünlü Uyumunu Öğrenme konusunda yaptıkları hatalar ve genellemeler. Ankara Linguistics Circle, METU.
  • 2010, July. Türkçe Öğrenen Yabancıların Ünlü Uyumunu Öğrenme konusunda yaptıkları hatalar ve genellemeler. III. Uluslararası Türkçe’nin Eğitimi ve Öğretimi Kurultayı. 1-3 Temmuz 2010, 9 Eylül Üniversitesi Dil Eğitimi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi.
  • 2010, July. Workshop presentation with Gökçe- Peters. Avrupa Birliği Kurumları’nda Türkçe Öğretimi. III. Uluslararası Türkçe’nin Eğitimi ve Öğretimi Kurultayı. 1-3 Temmuz 2010, 9 Eylül Üniversitesi Dil Eğitimi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi.
  • 2008, August. Sofu, Hatice and Altan, Aslı. Partial Reduplication Revisited, presented at the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Antalya, Turkey.
  • 2008, May. Acquisition of Vowel Harmony in Turkish. Presented in the 35th Anniversary Conference of Department of English Linguistics, Hacettepe University.

• 2007. Acquisition of Epenthesis in Turkish. Paper presented at the XXIth National Conference on Turkish Linguistics. Mersin University, Mersin.

Theses and Degree Papers

• The Influence of Vowel Harmony on Turkish Speakers learning an Artificial language System. PhD dissertation. Hacettepe University.

• Can English Adults Learn Vowel Harmony? M.A. Screening Paper (Psycholinguistics), University of Southern California, May 2004.

• Acquisition of Complementation in Turkish Unpublished M.A. thesis. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. August 2002.

• Reduplication in Turkish, Unpublished B.A. paper. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. May 2000.