Berat Başer

Berat Başer serves as an English Language Instructor at Boğaziçi University's School of Foreign Languages, having held administrative roles including Assistant Director of Student Affairs (2021-2022) and Level Representative (2018-2020). She is concurrently pursuing her Ph.D. in English Linguistics at the University of Vienna under Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer and Hon. Prof. Henry Widdowson.

Her educational qualifications include:

• Ph.D. in English Linguistics (ongoing), Department of English, University of Vienna
• M.A. in English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Vienna (2012)
• B.A. in Foreign Language Education and B.A. in American Studies, Boğaziçi University (2006)
• Exchange studies at SUNY Binghamton (2005)

Research focuses on pragmatics of English as a lingua franca in business contexts, examining interpersonal relationship negotiation through discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Her work extends to intercultural communication, pedagogical applications, and online language teaching methodologies.

Publications from 2012-2016 consistently explore ELF dynamics, addressing positioning strategies, relationship negotiation, and linguistic features like 'wanna' contraction, revealing sociolinguistic complexities in global English communication.

Key recognitions include:

• Certificate of Achievement from TESOL International Association (2020)
• Teaching Staff Mobility Grant by Bogazici University (2014)
• Oxford Teachers’ Academy Certificate (2013)
• European Union Comenius Language Assistant Grant (2006)

She conducts research visits at Oxford and Vienna, delivers business negotiation lectures for the United Nations Youth Association in Austria, and has organized scientific talks featuring Oxford scholars. No graduate student supervision is documented, though her professional activities emphasize practical language application in international contexts.