Emrah Özcan EMRAH ÖZCAN
I am a research assistant in Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Education, Foreign Languages Education Dept. I am doing my PhD. in Linguistics, focusing on lexicography. My main interest is machine readable dictionaries and learner dictionaries.

Research

I got my M.A. in Teaching Turkish as Foreign Language in 2006 and am doing my PhD. in Linguistics focusing on lexicography. Beside lexicography I am also interested in

  • lexicology,
  • corpus linguistics,
  • computational linguistics (NLP),
  • morphology,
  • semantics,
  • semiotics,
  • syntax

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Courses

Courses given:

  • 0931062 English Grammar II (SPRING 2006)
  • 0931161 Computer I (FALL 2006->2007)
  • 9031140 Computer II : Basic Computer Sciences (JSH) (SPRING 2007->2009)
  • 0931222 Lexicology (SPRING 2007->2008)
  • 0932082 Linguistics I (FALL 2007)
  • 0912912 ESP I (to the dept. of Instructional Technologies and Computer Teaching) (SPRING 2008)
  • 0934021 Drama(Play) Analysis and Teaching (FALL 2008)

Courses assisted:

  • 0922022 Instructional Technnologies and Material Development (SPRING 2008)

Summer Schools:

International:

  • 2007 EGG Summer School on Generative Grammar - Brno, Czech Republic.

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Publications

Presentations:

National:

  • (2007) "Türkçe Öğrenici Sözlüğü (Turkish Learners' Dictionary)", XXI. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı, XXI. National Linguistics Congress, 10 - 11 May 2007, Mersin University, Türkiye.

International:

  • (2007) "Low Frequency Lexical Items and Specialized Dictionaries Model and Application", Thirteenth International Symposium on Lexicography, 3-5 May 2007, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. (Accepted but not presented due to reasons.)
  • (2006) "The Ways of Definitions and Their Effects on Learners" The 26th International Conferences of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), 25 - 29 July 2006, Joensuu University, Finland.

Seminars:

  • (2008), Zühtü Kurtulmuş High School, Getting Prepared to University Entrance Exam (from Foreign Lang.) and Foreign Language Departments of the Universities.

Translations:

  • CHILDRESS, Alice, Miss James (Bayan James), Short Story (into Turkish), Adam Öykü Dergisi, November - December 2003, 1p.
  • UPDIKE, John, Natural Colour (Doğal Renk), Short Story (into Turkish), Adam Öykü Dergisi, September - October 2003, 8pp. (with B.Tarhan)
  • DAHL, Roald, The Butler (Kahya), Short Story (into Turkish), Adam Öykü Dergisi, May - June 2003, 3pp.
  • YOLLEN, Jane, Johanna (Johanna), Short Story (into Turkish), Adam Öykü Dergisi, September - October 2002, 3pp.
  • ALEXIE, Sherman, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Yalnız Kovboy ile Apaçi'nin Cennetteki Yumruklaþması), Short Story (into Turkish), Adam Öykü Dergisi, May - June 2001, 6pp.

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About me

I graduated from Istanbul University, ELT Department in 2002. I taught English and Turkish (as a foreign language) during my undergrad years. After I graduated, I began to teach English and drama in a private school. In 2003, I resigned from the high school and began tutoring Turkish as a foreign language in IH (International House) then EF (English First). Meanwhile, I also worked as a freelance translator (Eng-Tur and Tur-Eng). I have been tutoring Turkish as a foreign language for eight years, including three years of class experience. In 2005, I began to work as a research assistant in Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Education, Foreign Languages Teaching Department and currently am in the same position. In here, I taught Turkish to ERASMUS students in TILC(Turkish Intensive Language Course) 2006 which is organized by Foreign Languages Dept. under the body of EU office of the university. In July 2006, I got my M.A. in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language. Currently, I am doing my PhD in Linguistics focusing on lexicography.

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Contact

Yıldız Technical University
Faculty of Education
Foreign Languages Teaching Dept.
Campus at Davutpasa
34220 Esenler, Istanbul
Türkiye

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e-mail: eozcan {AT} yildiz {DOT} edu {DOT} tr
tel: +90 212 383 4869
homepage: http://www.dil.yildiz.edu.tr/emrah
dept. homepage: http://www.yde.yildiz.edu.tr

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"Lexicography is a discipline with a long history in most cultures. Typically, it aims at breadth of coverage rather than depth. Depth is achieved in the related discipline of lexicology, through detailed studies of key elements in the lexicon. The aim of lexicography is the systematic collection and explication of 'all' the words of a language (more strictly speaking, all the lexical items of a language, including idioms, multi-word expressions, and bound morphemes, as well as individual words). This encyclopedia contains articles on the history, current state of the art, and available lexicographic resources of the world's major languages, complementing the corresponding articles on individual languages and language situations. In the past two decades, the practice of lexicography has been transformed by the evidence of usage that is now to be found in large electronic corpora, so that the traditional historical-cultural focus of lexicography is beginning to be matched by empirically well- founded accounts of the dynamic nature of the lexicon and the relationship between word meaning and word use. This section also contains articles on some key aspects of onomastics."
(Frawley, William J. 1992. Encyclopedia of Linguistics Oxford: Oxford University Press)
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