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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.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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R3501SES: The Additional Competences and Associated Workloads of the Irish-medium Practitioner
O'Boyle, A. (PI), Engman, M. (CoI), Ortega, Y. (CoI) & Turkan, S. (CoI)
13/03/2023 → …
Project: Research
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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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Examining how multilingual learners engaged in a science modeling assessment through translanguaging
López, A. A. & Turkan, S., Apr 2025, In: Linguistics and Education. 86, 12 p., 101393.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Academic language in workspaces: if a spot of blood gets on the chicken, other chickens will mistake it for feed
Turkan, S., 28 Nov 2024, The racialized nature of academic language: disentangling the raciolinguistic power structures. Turkan, S. & Schissel , J. L. (eds.). Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Linguistically and culturally responsive, relevant, and sustaining pedagogies
Turkan, S., 07 Jul 2024, (Accepted) International encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Nesi, H. & Milin, P. (eds.). 3rd ed. ElsevierResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
Prizes
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AERA Abedi-Thurlow Paper Award: Using Pictorial Glossaries as an Accommodation for English Learners: An Exploratory Study, Educational Assessment, 24(3), 235-265.
Turkan, S. (Recipient) & Lopez, A. A. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Paper Nomination by American Educational Research Association Instructional Technology Special Interest Group
Turkan, S. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Other distinction
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Department of Education PhD Student Scholarship
Turkan, S. (Recipient) & Mafarja (Recipient), 2024
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
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Executive Committee Member at British Association for Applied Linguistics
Turkan, S. (Recipient), 07 Sept 2024
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Micromomental Mindset towards Anticolonial Intentionality
Turkan, S. (Presenter) & Engman, M. (Presenter)
Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Institutional Processes of Silencing
Turkan, S. (Invited speaker)
Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Cross-Institutional NINE DTP Education Pathways Leader
Turkan, S. (Examiner)
21 Feb 2025Activity: Examination types › PGT external examination
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Cross-cultural Sensitivity
Turkan, S. (Invited speaker) & Sotonye-Frank, G. (Invited speaker)
19 Feb 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Hate Crime Bystander Training for Undergraduate Students
Turkan, S. (Advisor)
Feb 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Press/Media
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Book Launch: Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Disentangling Raciolinguistic Structures
Turkan, S., Schissel, J., Canagarajah, S., Faltis, C., Mbulungeni , M., Ardell, L., Atkinson, M., Ricklefs, M., Zoch, M., Faircloth, B. & Detwyler, D.
30/01/2025
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research