Nazlinur Gokturk Tuney

Contact

Email:ngokturk@iastate.edu
Website:https://eprofiles.isucomm.iastate.edu/ngokturk/

Bio

Nazlinur Gokturk-Tuney (2020) holds an MA in TEFL from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and a BA in English Language Teaching from Hacettepe University, Turkey. Prior to joining ISU as a PhD student, she worked as a curriculum coordinator and EFL instructor in the School of Foreign Languages at Hacettepe University. Her research interests include computer-assisted language testing, L2 speaking assessment, task design, and test validation. She has presented at regional, national, and international conferences such as METU ELT Convention, MwALT, LARC, and TESOL, and published in journals including Language Assessment Quarterly. In her spare time, she enjoys taking landscape photography, hiking, traveling, and more recently trying new recipes from Mexican cuisine.

Major professors: Carol Chapelle and Evgeny Chukharev-Hudilainen

Dissertation title: Development and Evaluation of a Spoken Dialog-System-Mediated Paired Oral Task for Measuring Second Language Oral Communication Ability