Mehmet Kanık

Education

Sep 2005 – Mar 2010 Ph.D. English Language Teaching Program, , Istanbul,

Aug 2003 – May 2005 Ph.D. coursework, Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Aug 2001 – May 2003 M.S. TESOL Program, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sep 1996 – June 2000 B.A. Middle East Technical University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Ankara, Turkey

Experience

Feb 2018 to date Associate Professor Final International University, English Language Teaching Program, Girne, TRNC

Feb 2018 to Aug 2019 Associate Professor Girne American University, English Language Teaching Department, Girne, TRNC

Nov 2016 – Feb 2018 Assistant Professor Girne American University, English Language Teaching Department, Girne, TRNC

Feb 2015 to Jul 2016 Assistant Professor Mevlana University, Department of Foreign Language Education, English Language Teaching Program, , Turkey

Sep 2010 to Aug 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Houston, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, Houston, TX

Aug 2011 to Dec 2012 University of Houston, Department of English, Houston, TX

Dec 2011 – Jan 2013 Content expert for Turkish. Languages Other Than English (LOTE), Region 4 Education Service Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Sep 2010 – Dec 2010 Visiting Scholar Texas A&M University, Department of Teaching Learning and Culture, College Station, TX

Nov 2005 - Oct 2010 Research Assistant Istanbul University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey

Aug 2003 - June 2005 Graduate Associate in Teaching Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Sep 2000 - Aug 2001 English Teacher Antalya Sistem Cram School, Antalya, Turkey

Publications

Articles (peer-reviewed) 1) Kanık, M. (2018). Maturational constraint or system preservation. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 28(3), 452-464. (Published Nov 21, 2018 [Online Jul 26, 2018) 2) Kanık, M. (2017) Apples and Oranges: The Case of Written and Email DCTs. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 53(3), 399-422. (SSCI) 3) Kanık, M. (2017) Apology Speech Act Realization by Native and Non-Native ESL/EFL Teachers. International Online Journal of Educational Sciences. 9(1), 1-12. 4) Kanık, Mehmet. (2016). A Real Interlocutor In Elicitation Techniques: Does It Matter? Research in Language. 14(4), 423-436. 5) Kanık, Mehmet. (2015). The Turkish Aorist and Progressive: Present Tense, Future Tense, or What? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. 11 (1), 103-115. 6) Kanık, Mehmet. (2013). Reverse Discourse Completion Task as an Assessment Tool for Intercultural Competence. Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching. 3 (4), 621-644. 7) Kanık, Mehmet. (2013). “She Like It” but Should We Standardize ELF?” Kastamonu Education Journal. 21 (3), 1059-1070. 8) Kanık, Mehmet. (2011). The Effect of Content Instruction in L2 on L1 Pragmatics. Research in Language. 9 (2), 93-110 9) Kanık, Mehmet. (2010). Interlanguage Pragmatics in Turkish. Language Journal, 150, 32-49 10) Kanık, Mehmet. (2008). Speech Acts in the Foreign Language Examination. Journal of the Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education, 5 (1), 33-46 11) Kanık, Mehmet. (2006). Çok Kültürlü Sınıflarda Hata Düzeltme Şekilleri [Error Correction Patterns in Multicultural Classrooms]. Journal of the Hasan Ali Yucel Faculty of Education, 3 (2), 105-121

Conference Papers 1) Kanık, Mehmet. (2012). Reverse Discourse Completion Tasks. Proceedings of International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, Vol. 2, pp. 85-99 2) Kanık, Mehmet. (2010). Does Instruction in L2 Have an Impact on L1 Pragmalinguistic Use? In D. Köksal, İ. H. Erten, E.Z. Topkaya & A. Yavuz (Eds.) The 6th International ELT Research Conference Proceedings: Current Trends in SLA Research and Language Teaching. Canakkale: Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Book 1) Kanık, Mehmet. (2010). Apologies by ESL/EFL Teachers: Difference between Native and Nonnative English-speaking Professionals. Saarbrucken: LAP

Posters 1) Kanık, Mehmet. (2010). “Apology Speech Act Realization in English by Native and Nonnative English-Speaking ESL/EFL Teachers”. The 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, Web-Poster. Madrid, Spain: Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Presentations

1) Kanık, Mehmet. “Maturational Constraints Revisited: The Role of the L1 Knowledge.” 10th International ELT Research Conference. Antalya, Turkey, April 25-27, 2018. 2) Kanık, Mehmet. “Differences in Written Measures: Elicited Emails versus Written Discourse Completion Tasks”. 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. University of Split, Split, Croatia, June 10-12, 2016. 3) Kanık, Mehmet. “Developing Curricula with Language in Use: The Uses of the Aorist and Progressive Tenses in Spoken Turkish”. Presented at AATT Roundtable titled Developing a Curriculum to Teach Turkish in the 21st Century held at MESA Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, October 10-13, 2013. 4) Kanık, Mehmet. “Reverse Discourse Completion Tasks”. (Virtual paper author). Third International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, January 26-29, 2012 5) Kanık, Mehmet. “Apology Speech Act Realization in English by Native and Nonnative EnglishSpeaking ESL/EFL Teachers”. Web-poster. The 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, November 15-17, 2010 6) Kanık, Mehmet. “Does Instruction in L2 Have an Impact on L1 Pragmalinguistic Use?” The 6th International ELT Research Conference, Selcuk, Izmir, Turkey, May 14-16, 2010 7) Kanık, Mehmet. “The Effect of Content Instruction in L2 on L1 Pragmatics”. New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: The 5th Lodz Symposium. Lodz University, Lodz, Poland, May 7-9, 2010 8) Kanık, Mehmet. “Standardizing English as a Lingua Franca: Why Bother?” The 7th International Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, December 3-4, 2009 9) Kanık, Mehmet. “Learner Autonomy and Teaching Pragmatics”, The 4th International Postgraduate Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey, December 15-16, 2006 10) Kanık, Mehmet & Souleyman, Hassan. “Validity of Discourse Completion Tasks”, SLAT Roundtable, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 25-26 February, 2005

Supervised Master’s Theses

1) Korkmaz, Neslihan. (2019). “Stage Freight in the Second Language Learning Process. Graduate School of Social and Applied Sciences. Girne American University, Girne, North Cyprus. 2) Ozman, Meliz. (2019). “The Effects of The Bilingualism of Parents on Their Children in Learning English as a Second Language.” Graduate School of Social and Applied Sciences. Girne American University, Girne, North Cyprus. 3) Jaradat, Yousef. (2017). “The Perception of Foundation School Students in North Cyprus towards Social Media Integration in ELT. Graduate School of Social and Applied Sciences. Girne American University, Girne, North Cyprus

Awards, Recognitions, Scholarships

1) Travel Grant, Girne American University, North Cyprus, 2018 2) Publication Award, TÜBİTAK, 2018 3) Publication Award, Girne American University, Girne, North Cyprus, 2017 4) Travel Grant, Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey, 2016 5) Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010 (Project Number: UDP-6848/09042010) 6) Dissertation project, Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008 to 2009 (Project Number: 2751) 7) Registration scholarship, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Spring 2005 8) Honor certificate from Secretary of National Education, Turkey, 2004 9) Registration scholarship, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, Fall 2004 10) Honor certificate from Secretary of National Education, Turkey, 2002 11) Una B. Cameron scholarship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, Fall 2001 12) USC Rossier School of Education Scholarship, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA, Spring 2001 13) Full official governmental scholarship including tuition and monthly salary for graduate studies in the USA, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003

Research Interests

Second language acquisition, cross-cultural pragmatics, speech acts, data collection and testing in pragmatics, English as a lingua franca, analyzing Turkish corpora

Languages

Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), Spanish (Lower intermediate)