{"id":28,"date":"2012-05-17T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/bkirkici\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:48:41","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.metu.edu.tr\/bkirkici\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I completed my BA and MA studies at METU (Middle East Technical University<\/a>) in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Then, in 2002, I obtained my second master’s degree, in Applied Linguistics, from the University of Essex<\/a>. In 2005, I received my PhD in English Language Teaching from METU. Throughout my postgraduate studies (1997-2005), I worked as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education<\/a> at METU. Following a three-year period (2006-2009) at Ba\u015fkent University’s Department of Foreign Language Education<\/a>, I went to the UK to work at the Oriental Institute of Oxford University (now the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies<\/a>) and as a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow at Essex University. In 2011, I returned to my alma mater<\/a>, where I\u00a0 still work as a Professor of Linguistics.<\/p>\n

My research mainly focuses on morphological processing using experimental psycholinguistic methods in native, second, and heritage languages. Additionally, I conduct studies and projects on sentence processing, multilingualism, second language acquisition, and open science. As part of an interdisciplinary research team, I investigate morphological and syntactic processing in healthy individuals as well as in individuals diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Schizophrenia. In the recent past, I started conducting research with an international team of researchers from 23 countries to determine the language skills that children and adolescents need to effectively participate in the judicial process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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