Dr Erhan Aslan
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+44 (0) 118 378 6317
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Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
Departmental Study Abroad and Careers Coordinator
Areas of interest
Erhan's research interests broadly cover the multilingual, multicultural, and technologized practices of language and communication in changing societies and pedagogical contexts. Along with the rapid advances in information and communication technologies, he explores new forms of multimodal representation, new text and pragmatic meaning making practices in user-generated digital discourse that is shared in online affinity spaces where linguistically and culturally diverse participants interact with one another.
Postgraduate supervision
Erhan currently supervises five PhD students. He is happy to consider supervising research on language learning/teaching and technology, digital discourse and communication, L2 pragmatics, and intercultural communication.Teaching
Erhan teaches the following modules:
Undergraduate:
LS3IC: Intercultural Communications
Postgraduate:
LSMNT: New Technologies in Language Learning and Teaching
LSMIC: Intercultural Communication
LSMRDM Research Design Methods
Research centres and groups
- Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism
Background
Erhan has more than ten years of international teaching experience in Turkey, the US, and the UK. During those years, he not only taught but also developed and revamped multiple courses in EFL/ESL and TESOL/applied linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Erhan was the proud recipient of the widely recognised and prestigious Fulbright Grant as well as theTESOL International Organization's Research Mini-Grant.Academic qualifications
- PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Instructional Technology (University of South Florida, USA)
- MA in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies (Texas Tech University, USA)
- BA in English Linguistics (Hacettepe University, Turkey)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Publications
- Aslan, E. (2022) Days of our ‘quarantined’ lives: multimodal humour in COVID-19 internet memes. Internet Pragmatics , 5 (2). pp. 227-256. ISSN: 2542-3851 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00075.asl
- Duong, V. and Aslan, E. (2022) L2 writing through wiki-mediated collaborative tasks: a study in a Vietnamese EFL setting. In: Lutge, C. , (eds.) Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age: Theory and Pedagogy for Developing Literacies. Routledge ISBN: 9780367469412
- Aslan, E. (2021) When the internet gets ‘Coronafied’: pandemic creativity and humour in internet memes. In: Jones, R. , (eds.) Viral Discourse. Elements in applied linguistics Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 49-61. ISBN: 9781108986465 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108986465
- Vasquez, C. and Aslan, E. (2021) “Cats be outside, how about meow”: multimodal humor and creativity in an internet meme. Journal of Pragmatics , 171 pp. 101-117. ISSN: 0378-2166 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.10.006
- Aslan, E. and Thompson, A. (2021) The interplay between learner beliefs and foreign language anxiety: insights from the Turkish EFL context. Language Learning Journal ISSN: 1753-2167 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1540649
- Aslan, E. (2020) Perceptions of pragmatics in EIL: voices from scholars and teachers. In: Tajeddin, Z. and Alemi, M. , (eds.) Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language. Routledge ISBN: 9780367563288 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003097303
- Jones, R. , Jaworska, S. , Aslan, E. (2020) Language and media: a resource book for students. Routledge English Language Introductions Routledge , Abington, Oxon.
- Aslan, E. (2020) ‘Oiling the social wheels’ in an undergraduate chemistry lab: an ITA’s participation in small talk. Classroom Discourse , 11 (3). pp. 252-271. ISSN: 1946-3022 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2019.1585891
- Ciftci, H. and Aslan, E. (2019) Computer-mediated communication in the L2 writing process: a review of studies between 2000 and 2017. International Journal of Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching , 9 (2). ISSN: 2155-7098 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJCALLT.2019040102
- Aslan, E. and Ciftci, H. (2019) Synthesizing research on learner perceptions of CMC use in EFL/ESL writing. The CALICO Journal , 36 (2). pp. 100-118. ISSN: 2056-9017 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/cj.34818
- Aslan, E. and Vásquez, C. (2018) 'Cash me ousside': a citizen sociolinguistic analysis of online metalinguistic commentary. Journal of Sociolinguistics , 22 (4). pp. 406-431. ISSN: 1360-6441 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12303
- Binasfour, H. , Setter, J. , Aslan, E. (2017) Enhancing L2 learners’ perception and production of the Arabic emphatic sounds.
- Aslan, E. (2017) Doing away with the ‘native speaker’: a complex adaptive systems approach to L2 phonological attainment. Language Learning Journal , 45 (4). pp. 447-465. ISSN: 1753-2167 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2014.934271
- Aslan, E. and Thompson, A. (2017) Are they really “two different species”? Implicitly elicited student perceptions About NESTs and NNESTs. TESOL Journal , 8 (2). pp. 277-294. ISSN: 1949-3533 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tesj.268
- Aslan, E. (2017) The impact of face systems on the pragmalinguistic features of academic e-mail requests. Pragmatics and Society , 8 (1). pp. 61-84. ISSN: 1878-9714 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.8.1.04asl
- Aslan, E. (2016) International teaching assistants in the US university classroom: a mixed-methods study of individual differences and L2 pragmatic competence.
- Aslan, E. and Thompson, A. (2016) Native and non-native speaker teachers: contextualizing perceived differences in the Turkish EFL setting. LIF – Language in Focus Journal , 2 (1). pp. 87-102. ISSN: 2300-9764 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lifijsal-2016-0005
- Thompson, A. and Aslan, E. (2015) Multilingualism, perceived positive language interaction (PPLI), and learner beliefs: what do Turkish students believe?. International Journal of Multilingualism , 12 (3). pp. 259-275. ISSN: 1747-7530 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2014.973413
- Aslan, E. (2015) When the native is also a non-native: “retrodicting” the complexity of language teacher cognition. Canadian Modern Language Review , 71 (3). pp. 244-269. ISSN: 1710-1131 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cmlr.2575
- Farley, A. and Aslan, E. (2012) The relative effects of processing instruction and meaning-based output instruction on L2 acquisition of the English subjunctive. ELT Research Journal , 1 (2). pp. 120-141. ISSN: 2146-9814
- Aslan, E. and Altan, A. (2006) The role of –(s)I in Turkish indefinite nominal compounds. Language Journal , 131 pp. 57-75. ISSN: 1300-3542 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1501/Dilder_0000000049