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Research Statement
I research ways to improve educational practices for multilingual immigrant children. My research is guided by the view of language as a resource (rather than a deficiency) for effectively teaching immigrant learners. I have conducted research on the validity and fairness of assessments administered to these learners and their teachers and investigated ways to provide opportunities for immigrant children to demonstrate their funds of knowledge in assessments and classrooms. As the lead author of influential papers, I have argued that teachers need to develop specialized knowledge base and set of skills in order for the work of teaching to attend to the translanguaging practices of the multilingual learners. Current research project examines the development of formative simulated classroom environments for educating science teachers to teach immigrant children. I have over a decade of teaching experience in higher education and foreign/second language contexts with culturally and linguistically diverse groups.
Research Interests
My academic background is in language teaching and teacher education. My research focuses on promoting bilinguals/multilinguals’ participation and engagement in the formal and informal processes of schooling and other sociocultural landscapes through drawing on bilinguals/multilinguals’ linguistic and cultural capital. I am primarily influenced by Bakhtinian and Vygotskyan perspectives to research languaging practices, linguistic and cultural identity formations, and the work of learning to teach students with rich languaging backgrounds and practices.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Proposing a knowledge base for teaching academic content to english language learners: Disciplinary linguistic knowledge
Turkan, S., De Oliveira, L. C., Lee, O. & Phelps, G., 2014, In: Teachers College Record. 116, 3, 030308.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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That Child Is a Yellow: New Immigrant Children's Conceptions of English Language, Literacy, and Learners' Identities in the NCLB Era
Turkan, S. & DaSilva Iddings, A. C., 01 Oct 2012, In: Theory Into Practice. 51, 4, p. 273-280 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Opportunities and challenges of online teacher education programmes in serving EAL students
Turkan, S., 03 Mar 2023, (Accepted) In: EAL Journal.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reframing ELT through engagements with relationality and intersectionality
Turkan, S. & Engman, M., 01 Jan 2023, (Accepted) In: International Journal of Educational Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Decolonizing the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages: Unpacking Challenges and Promising Practices
Turkan, S. (ed.) & Engman, M. (ed.), 2022, In: International Journal of Educational Research.Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review
Prizes
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AERA Abedi-Thurlow Paper Award
Turkan, Sultan (Recipient) & Lopez, Alexis A. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Director of MSc TESOL/Applied Linguistics Programme
Turkan, Sultan (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Appointment
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Lead of the Local Organizing Committee for the Annual BAAL Conference 2022
Turkan, Sultan (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Appointment
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Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET)
Turkan, Sultan (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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Northern Ireland Early Career Researcher/Practitioner Workshop
Sultan Turkan (Speaker)
03 Nov 2023Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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SIG Forum Meeting – Teacher Education and Development
Sultan Turkan (Board Member)
24 Apr 2023Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Routledge (Publisher)
Sultan Turkan (Editor)
Jan 2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
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Northern Ireland Convenor of the Teacher Education SIG
Sultan Turkan (Chair)
Jan 2023 → Sep 2026Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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Secretary for the recently formed SIG-Social Justice for Language Education
Sultan Turkan (Board Member)
2023Activity: Consultancy types › Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups