معرفی
Nesrin Atak serves as a Lecturer in the English Prep Unit at Bogazici University, Turkey, where she is concurrently pursuing doctoral studies in English Language Education.
Her academic credentials include:
- Ph.D. in English Language Education (ongoing), Boğaziçi University, Turkey
- M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction, Bilkent University, Turkey (2019)
- B.A. in Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Turkey (2013)
Her research centers on bilingual cognition, investigating neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic mechanisms in child bilinguals, with emphasis on syntactic/morphological processing, anaphora resolution, heritage language maintenance, and cognitive underpinnings of language acquisition/attrition. She integrates cognitive science frameworks with natural language processing methodologies to examine mental representation and processing systems.
Recent publications analyze developmental trajectories of syntactic and lexical complexity in Turkish EFL learners' argumentative writing, revealing proficiency-dependent variation and genre-topic interaction effects. This work establishes empirical foundations for understanding how linguistic complexity evolves across developmental stages in second language writing.
She actively disseminates findings through conference presentations at venues including the INGED ELT Conference and IATEFL RESIG Conference, focusing on writing complexity and formulaic language use in academic contexts.
