Elvan Eda IŞIK

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elvan Eda IŞIK is affiliated with the Faculty of Education at the Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education. Her academic journey includes postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham.

• Post-Doc: University of Cambridge, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
• Post-Doc: University of Birmingham, Center for Advanced Research in English
• Ph.D.: Middle East Technical University, English Language Teaching
• M.A.: Middle East Technical University, English Language Teaching
• B.A.: Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education

Her research focuses on Applied Linguistics for TESOL, with expertise in analyzing English for Academic and Specific Purposes (EAP/ESP) discourse using corpus linguistics methods. Key areas include writer identity, evaluative language, promotional-informational discourses, and metadiscourse in academic texts. She completed a corpus-based contrastive analysis of research articles and PhD theses as part of her doctoral dissertation.