Department:

English Preparatory Division

Education:

Ph.D., English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Vienna, ongoing
M.A., English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Vienna, 2012

B.A. (major): Foreign Language Education Department, Bogazici University, 2006
B.A. (minor): Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, American Studies, Bogazici University, 2006

Other Diplomas & Certificates:

Certificates & Awards

Nov. 2020 Certificate of Achievement, granted to me on successful completion of the Leadership Management Certificate Program, TESOL International Association.

Jan. 2014 Teaching Staff Mobility Grant by Bogazici University, Turkey.

Sep. 2013 Certificate of Achievement, granted to me on successful completion of Oxford Teachers’ Academy Course (Teaching English to Adults), Professional Development Program by Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and Oxford University Press.

April 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Program In Intensive English, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA (Declined).

June 2007 Certificate of Achievement (C1 level), Deutschkurse, University of Vienna.

July 2006 Individual Training Grant by European Union which enables me to teach English as a Comenius Language Assistant at a college-like high school, HTL Donaustadt, Vienna, Austria.

May 2005 Certificate of Achievement, International Students and Scholar Services,State University of New York, Binghamton, NY.

Dec. 2004 Exchange Student Scholarship which enables me to study at State University of New York at Binghamton for eight months.

Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae:

Berat Başer is an English Language Instructor at the School of Foreign Languages at Boğaziçi University. She worked as the Assistant Director of Student Affairs in the School of Foreign Languages (SFL) at Boğaziçi between July 2021 and July 2022 and a Level Representative in the Academic Affairs Committee in the Preparatory Division of the SFL between September 2018 and October 2020. Currently, she is working on her Ph.D. dissertation on Business English as a lingua franca interactions with Prof. Barbara Seidlhofer and Hon. Prof. Henry Widdowson in the Department of English at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on pragmatics of English as a lingua franca communication and its pedagogical implications in English language teaching, negotiating interpersonal relations (in Business English as a lingua franca interactions), discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics (qualitative). Recently, she has been to the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna as a Guest Researcher, and she has been giving Business Negotiations and Bargaining Lectures at the United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria, Business Negotiation Club. Before coming to Boğaziçi, she taught English at different levels in Vienna, Austria and worked as a Media Analyst/ Researcher in the U.S. Embassy there. She holds an M.A. in English in the Department of English at the University of Vienna and a B.A. in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Boğaziçi University. Along with the B.A., she minored in American Studies in the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Boğaziçi University. She also studied in the English Department and American Studies Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton as an exchange student. Ms. Başer is proficient in both English and German, and a Turkish-native speaker. She can also read Latin.

Research Interests:

Pragmatics, pragmatics of English as a lingua franca communication and its pedagogical implications, negotiating interpersonal relations (in English as a lingua franca Service Encounters), discourse analysis, intercultural communication, corpus linguistics (qualitative), teaching English online.

Research Projects:

Research Visits

June 18-28, 2014 Visiting Researcher, University of Oxford, Hertford College, Faculty of English Language and Literature & Oxford University Press, UK.

Sept. 15-22, 2014 Visiting Instructor, University of Vienna, Department of English, Austria

Publications :

Başer, Berat. (2016). "Positioning in ELF interactions". In N. Tsantila, J. Mandalios and M. Ilkos (eds.) ELF: Pedagogical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Athens: Deree-The American College of Greece Press.

Başer, Berat (2016). "Negotiating relationships in ELF interactions". In L. Lopriore and E. Grazzi (eds.) Intercultural Communication: New Perspectives from ELF. Rome: Roma TrE- Press.

Başer, Berat. (2012). Turkish and American Address Forms in the Family. Saarbrücken: Lab Lambert Academic Publishing.

Başer, Berat (2012). "_Wanna_ contraction in the natural speech of ELF speakers". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ebook). Istanbul: Bogazici University.

Talks / Presentations:

Invited Lectures

14 Jan. 2026 “Negotiations When English is not Your Native Language”. Austrian Association for Negotiation and Conflict Management (AANCM), Online Lecture: Vienna-Austria.

28 Nov. 2019 “Multiple Issue, Cross-cultural, Two-party Negotiations”. United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria-Business Negotiation Club, Technical University of Vienna (TU): Vienna-Austria.

6 Dec. 2018 “Multiple Issue, Cross-cultural, Two-party Negotiations”. United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria- Business Negotiation Club, Imperial Palace: Vienna-Austria.

2 June 2017 “Multiple Issue, Two-party Negotiations”. United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria- Business Negotiation Club, Imperial Palace: Vienna-Austria.

1 June 2017 “Cross-cultural, Multiple Issue, Two-party Negotiations”. United Nations Youth and Student Association of Austria- Business Negotiation Club, Imperial Palace: Vienna-Austria.

Scientific Talk Organization Activities

20 May 2014 Dr. Danica Salazar of University of Oxford, Faculty of English Language and Literature & Oxford University Press. “Beyond borrowings: Non-British vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary”. Saritepe Campus, Bogazici University.

21 May 2014 Dr. Danica Salazar of University of Oxford, Faculty of English Language and Literature & Oxford University Press. “Beyond borrowings: Turkish words in the Oxford English Dictionary”. South Campus, Bogazici University.

Presentations

Sep. 11-14, 2024 "Negotiating interpersonal relationships in English as a lingua franca service encounters." 14th International English as a Lingua Franca Conference (ELF14), Prag City University, the Czech Republic.

July 4-7, 2018 "How to Negotiate Interpersonal Relations in (Business) English as a Lingua Franca Interactions." 11th International English as a Lingua Franca Conference (ELF11), King's College London, the UK.

Sep. 6-8, 2017 “Positioning yourself when you do not share the same lingua-cultural conventions.” AILA-Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

March 10-12, 2016 "Negotiating interpersonal relationships in English as a lingua franca interactions". LIF2016: Language in Focus: From Theory to Practice: New Directions in ELT and Applied Linguistics, Istanbul, Turkey.

Oct. 8-10, 2015 “Polysemous verbs and modality in American Philippine and Turkish argumentative writing in English.” Co-presented by Dr. Danica Salazar at the Contemporary Studies of Philippine English Colloquium, 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Oct. 8-10, 2015 “Negotiating lingua-cultural conventions.” 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Oct. 17-19, 2014 “Phenomenon of positioning in ELF interactions.” 2nd American Pragmatics Conference. Hosted by the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) Department of Applied Linguistics, Los Angeles, USA.

Sept. 4-6, 2014 "Positioning in ELF interactions". The 7th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF6), Athens, Greece.

Sept. 4-7, 2013 "Negotiating relationships in ELF interactions". The 6th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF6), Roma, Italy.

June 10-13, 2013 "A Corpus-based Analysis of Wanna Contraction between ELF and Native Speakers". Changing English: Contacts & Variation. Helsinki, Finland.

May 24-26, 2012 "_Wanna_ contraction in the natural speech of ELF speakers". The 5th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF5), Istanbul, Turkey.