Ebru Turker
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SILC - 851 S. Cady Mall Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Ebru Türker is an associate professor of Korean. She teaches courses on Korean language and Korean linguistics as well as general linguistics courses within the School of International Letters and Cultures. Her research interests include Korean linguistics, second language acquisition of Korean, longitudinal L2 acquisition, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, figurative language, multimodal metaphor analysis, L2 metaphor acquisition and L2 acquisition of formulaic language.
Her research explores (1) the study of cognitive process in second language acquisition (SLA) and to discover the influential factors that reduce or enhance L2 learning development; (2) the relationship between linguistic features of Korean and empirical studies of Korean learning and teaching.
Her work has appeared in journals published in North America, Europe, and South Korea such as Second Language Research, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Studies, The Language Learning Journal, The Korean Language in America, Discourse and Cognition (담화와 인지), Journal of Korean Language Education (한국어교육), Grammar Education (문법교육), Eoneohag (언어학). Prior to her arrival at ASU, Türker taught at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
- Ph.D. Korean Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- M.A. Linguistics, Seoul National University, Korea
- B.A. Korean, Ankara University, Turkey
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Türker, E. (forthcoming) Anger in Korean: “A fireball rises up”. In Z. Kövecses & R. Benczes (Eds). Metaphors of ANGER across languages: Universality and variation, De Gruyter Mouton. (invited chapter)
Türker, E. (2022) A Quantitative Analysis on Korean Emotion Metaphors across Genres. Discourse and Cognition (담화와 인지). 29(3), 1-47.
Link: http://www.discog.com/45
Türker, E. (2022) Second Language Learning of Polysemous Korean Words. In A. S. Byon & D. O. Pyun (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language, 11-31, UK, Taylor & Francis. (invited chapter)
Türker, E. (2022) Conceptualizations of the eyes in Korean figurative uses, The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics, 554–580, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (invited chapter)
Türker, E. (2018). The influence of L1 frequency in instructed second language learning of L2 idioms. Journal of Second Language Studies, 1(2), 334-357.
Türker, E. (2017), Language transfer in third language acquisition: A study of Japanese influence on the acquisition of Korean for L1 English speakers. Eoneohag (언어학), 79 (3), 193-226.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.17290/jlsk.2018..79.193
Türker, E. (2017), A study on the acquisition and development of the Korean adverbial particle -(u)lo by L1 English learners of Korean. Grammar Education (문법교육), 31 (3), 371-411.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.21850/kge.2017.31..371
Türker, E. (2017), The acquisition and development of Korean adverbial particle -ey by L1 English learners of Korean. Journal of Korean Language Education (한국어교육), 28 (4), 337-366.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.18209/iakle.2017.28.4.337
Türker, E. (2017), The interaction of affective factors in L2 acquisition of Korean formulaic language: A critical overview. The Korean Language in America, 21 (1), 120-145.
Link: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/korelangamer.21.1.0120
Türker, E. (2016), Idiom acquisition by second language learners: The influence of cross-linguistic similarity and context. The Language Learning Journal, 47(2), 133-144.
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2016.1221441
Türker, E. (2016), The role of L1 conceptual knowledge and frequency in the acquisition of L2 metaphorical expressions. Second Language Research, 32 (1), 25-48.
Link: http://slr.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/07/18/0267658315593336
Cho, H.T., Lee-Smith, A., Kim, M., & Türker, E. (2015), The second year to curriculum of "Standards-Based College Korean Curriculum". The Korean Language in America, Special Issue, 19(2). 200-230.
Link: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/stable/10.5325/korelangamer.19.2.0178
Türker, E. (2013), Corpus-based Approach to Emotion Metaphors in Korean: A Case Study Anger, Happiness and Sadness. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 11(1), 73-144.
Link: http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/rcl.11.1.03tur
Türker, E. (2013), Second Language Acquisition of Korean Postpositions -ey and -eyse: A Cognitive Pedagogical Approach. In S. Sohn, S. Cho & S. You (eds.). Studies in Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy. 346-383. Seoul, South Korea, Korea University Press.
Türker, E. (2003), The Notion of “Transitivity” in Turkish and Korean. In Explorations in Korean Language and Linguistics. (eds.). Gregory K. Iverson & Sang-Cheol Ahn. 565-581. Seoul, South Korea, Hangukmoonhwasa Publishing Co.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 314 | Third-Year Korean II |
| KOR 584 | Internship |
| KOR 420 | Emotion Acrs Lang, Cltre & Hst |
| SLC 420 | Emotion Acrs Lang, Cltre & Hst |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| KOR 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 313 | Third-Year Korean I |
| KOR 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
| SLC 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 584 | Internship |
| KOR 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
| SLC 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 313 | Third-Year Korean I |
| KOR 494 | Special Topics |
| KOR 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 314 | Third-Year Korean II |
| KOR 584 | Internship |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 313 | Third-Year Korean I |
| KOR 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
| SLC 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 314 | Third-Year Korean II |
| KOR 584 | Internship |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| KOR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| KOR 313 | Third-Year Korean I |
| KOR 598 | Special Topics |
| KOR 494 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 314 | Third-Year Korean II |
| KOR 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| KOR 598 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| KOR 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| KOR 484 | Internship |
| KOR 314 | Third-Year Korean II |
| KOR 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
| SLC 375 | Intercultural Comm in Korea |
Editor-in-Chief _The Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, May 2020-present
Editorial Board Member, The Joongwon Linguistic Society of Korea, Spring 2022-present
- American Association of Applied Linguistics
- American Association of Teachers of Korean
- International Circle of Korean Linguistics
- International Association for Korean Language Education
- The Linguistic Society of Korea
- Korea Grammar Education Circle
Graduate Student Advisement
PhD Dissertation Committees
- Deaun Shin, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Department of English, ASU, Spring 2021-present
- Gina Scarpete Walters, Comparative Culture & Language Program, School of International Letters and Cultures, ASU, Spring 2021-present
- Weike Wang (2nd-year doctoral student at the University of Stirling, UK), mentoring through RaAM mentoring project, March 2024-present)
Ad hoc Reviewer: Journals
- TESOL Journal, February 2024
- Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2024
- International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, February 2022
- Sage Open, February, 2021, June 2021
- Korean Linguistics, June 2020, November 2020
- Language Awareness, November 2019
- Studia Linguistica: A Journal of General Linguistics, August 2019
- The Korean Language in America, September 2018
- British Journal of Social Psychology, March 2018
- Cognition and Emotion, January 2018
- Studies in Second Language Acquisition, February 2018
- Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages, December 2012, July 2014, July 2015, December 2015, July 2016, December 2016, July 2017, December 2017, July 2018, December 2018, August 2019, December 2019.
- Review of Cognitive Linguistics Journal, February 2014, May 2014
Ad hoc Reviewer: Edited Book Volumes
- Book chapter review for a volume on cognitive linguistics and proverbs to be published at John Benjamins Publishing Company, October 2021, December 2021.
- The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Language and Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, December 2018.
Ad hoc Reviewer: Conference Abstracts
- The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies, 2024.
- International Conference of Korean Linguistics, 2023
- Annual Conference of American Association of Teachers of Korean, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2010
- 2021 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, August 2020
- 2020 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, August 2019
- 2019 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, September 2018
- The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, September 2018
- 2018 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, September 2017
Facilitator/Session Chair/Organizer: Conferences/Symposiums/Workshops/Colloquiums
- Agents of Change Symposium: Futures of Hope, Futures of Concern Symposium, Arizona State University, Fall 2019
- Second Language Acquisition Forum, 19th International Circle of Korean Linguistics and 16th Harvard-International Symposium on Korean Linguistics, University of Chicago, Summer 2015
- International Guest Lecture Series: "Teaching Writing in Advanced Level Classes: A Post-Product, Post-Process Approach," organized by Professor Hae-Young Kim, Arizona State University, Spring 2014
- Korean and Japanese Linguistics Colloquium at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Arizona State University, Spring 2013
Evaluator
- ASU Fulbright Scholarship to Asia evaluation, Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
- ASU FLAS Scholarship recipients’ language evaluation, Fall 2021-Spring 2022
- ASU study abroad course equivalency, Fall 2012–present
- Arizona Course Equivalency Tracking Systems, Fall 2012–present
- Small Research Grants for SILC Graduate Students, Spring 2019
- The Small Grant Research and Travel Grant Competition for SILC Faculty, Fall 2018
- Small Research Grants for SILC Graduate Students, Spring 2018
- Fulbright Scholarships to Asia, Fall 2014
- SILC East Asian program graduate admission, Fall 2013, Fall 2014
Event Organizer
- Korean Book Fair, Darakwon USA & Korean Poetry Recitation Contest, Spring 2024
- Korean Film Screening and Lecture (co-organizer), “Actions and Crisis, Cinema on the rise: Notes on Parasite” by Dr. Seung-hwan Shin, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2022
- Korean Program Lecture Series, “The Korean Peninsula: Steps toward Peace,” by Mr. Youngwan Kim, The Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles, Arizona State University, Fall 2022
- Korean Program Lecture Series, American learners’ comprehension of Korean idioms,” by Professor Danielle O. Pyun from The Ohio State University, Arizona State University, Spring 2022
- Korean Program Lecture Series, “Education and Healthcare of the Republic of Korea,” by Mr. Kyung Jae Park, The Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles, Arizona State University, Fall 2021
Community Service
- Provided a workshop on Korean language and culture for the San Diego Padres Baseball team, March 11, 2024