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Ayşe Gürel is a full professor at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Education, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from McGill University (2002) and has held visiting positions at the University of Illinois and Potsdam University. Her research focuses on second language acquisition (SLA), first language attrition, neurolinguistics, and bilingualism, with a particular emphasis on Turkish as an L2/heritage language. She has authored/edited over 80 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and a monograph on L2 Turkish acquisition (John Benjamins, 2016).
Education: Ph.D. (McGill, 2002); M.A. & B.A. (Boğaziçi, 1996/1992). She teaches advanced courses on SLA theories, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and applied research, addressing morphosyntactic processing, bilingual mental lexicon, and SLA pedagogy. She has directed 17 theses and secured funding from TÜBİTAK and Boğaziçi’s research councils.
Research interests span morphological processing in L2 learners, aphasia in bilinguals, and memory-language interactions. Her recent work examines compound processing in Turkish-English bilinguals and the neurolinguistic basis of attrition. She serves on editorial boards for Second Language Research and Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
Awardees of major honors include the TÜBİTAK Incentive Award (2008) and TÜBA-GEBİP distinction (2006). Her administrative roles include Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs (2019-21) and Department Chair (2017-20). She has presented over 80 conference papers globally, including keynote addresses at the University of Toronto and Indiana University.
