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Dr. Işıl Erduyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University, Turkey. Her research focuses on multilingualism, language and identity, migration studies, and sociolinguistic ethnography. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published widely on Turkish heritage language education, transnational mobility, and linguistic ideologies. Erduyan directs the 'Contemporary Linguistic Diversity in İstanbul' research project and teaches courses such as 'Language and Gender' and 'Sociolinguistic Issues in Second Language Acquisition'.
Education:
- PhD in Second Language Acquisition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA (2015)
- MA in Foreign Language Education, Boğaziçi University (2004)
- BA in Foreign Language Education, Boğaziçi University (1999)
Research Interests: Micro-ethnographic analysis of language use, migration and transnational mobility impacts on language practices, multilingual identity construction, Turkish language in heritage and monolingual settings, qualitative research methodologies.
Key Contributions: Her 2019 monograph Multilingual Construction of Identity: German-Turkish Students in Berlin and 2022 article on Japanese study-abroad learners exemplify her focus on intersectional language practices. She actively collaborates with international scholars on projects such as the 'Languages in the City' conference series and the Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World.
Academic Leadership: Erduyan has supervised over a dozen graduate theses, including a notable 2019 doctoral dissertation awarded Boğaziçi University's Best Dissertation in Social Sciences. She regularly presents at major international conferences like the Sociolinguistics Symposium and AILA, and her work appears in journals like Language and Education and Linguistics and Education.
