Ebru Turker

Ebru Türker is Associate Professor of Korean Linguistics and Applied Linguistics in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Her research investigates cognitive processes in second language acquisition with focus on Korean, examining factors impacting language development across multiple domains.

She teaches Korean language and linguistics courses, with expertise spanning cognitive linguistics, corpus analysis, figurative language acquisition, and multimodal metaphor theory. Her work emphasizes empirical investigation of Korean linguistic features to inform teaching methodologies.

Her publications (2003-2025) consistently explore metaphor acquisition, particle usage, cross-linguistic transfer, and corpus-based analysis of Korean linguistic patterns.