Bilgen Erdem Boonstra is a lecturer at the Institute of Area Studies.

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Fields of interest

• Turkish as a foreign language
• language teaching
•  linguistics 
• discourse analysis 
• interactional sociolinguistics

Curriculum vitae

Turkish Instructor, 2019- Institute for Area Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University

Turkish Instructor September 2005 – January 2018, Turkish Language and Literature Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish instructor 2005-2010 and 2012-2014 Turkish Language and Culture Program, Language Center Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish instructor,  June -August  2011 Summer School and Language Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA

Teaching Assistant  2003 and 2004, Turkish Language and Culture Program, Language Center, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Selected publications

Erdem Boonstra, B., Arslan Kechriotis, Z. C (In preparation). Elementary and  Intermediate Level Turkish Coursebooks.

Rızaoğlu, F., Derince,Z. M., Erdem, B. (2017). “Unidirectional Teacher Exchange Programs: Solution or Problem for Personnel Policy in Turkey?” In Bayyurt, Y. and Sifakis, N. (Eds.) English Language Education Policies and Practices in the Mediterranean Countries and Beyond. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Arslan-Kechriotis, Z. C.,Erdem, B. (2011). “Türkçe Öğrenen Yabancı Öğrencilerin Eğilimleri ve Ders Planlama Süreci”. [Tendencies of learners of Turkish as a Foreign Language and Course Planning] In İlyas Yazar (ed.), III. Uluslararası Dünya Dili Türkçe Sempozyumu Bildiri Kitabı [Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Turkish as a World Language]. Izmir Dokuz Eylül University, 593-601.

Erdem, B. (2009). “Yabancı Dil Olarak Türkçe Öğretiminde İletişim Yeteneklerinin Geliştirilmesine Etkileşimsel Toplumdilbilimsel Bir Yaklaşım”, [An Interactional Sociolinguistic Approach to Improving Communicative Skills in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language] In Yaylı, D. ve Bayyurt, Y. (eds) Yabancılara Türkçe Öğretimi, Politika Yöntem ve Beceriler, Ankara: Anı Publication.

Erdem, B. (2006). “Interpersonal Dimension of Humor in Everyday Conversations of Turkish Peer Groups” in Yağcıoğlu, Semiramis; A. C. Değer (eds.) Advances in Turkish Linguistics: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, 11-13 Augustus 2004, İzmir: Dokuz Eylül Publication.