Seyhan Özden

Seyhan Özden is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Turkish Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen. She holds office hours every Friday from 12:00 to 13:00 and serves as Deputy Teacher for Turkish Studies. Her responsibilities include module management for the DSSZ HSU Turkish partial study program, focusing on heritage language teaching.

Her expertise spans:

• Linguistics and contrastive language analysis
• Multilingual literacy development
• Turkish language pedagogy and curriculum design

She teaches courses like Integrated Language Courses, Vocabulary Expansion, and Multilingual Literacy Testing, and develops learning materials for heritage language education.