Department:

English Prep Unit

Education:

Ph.D., English Language Education, Boğaziçi University, Turkey, ongoing

M.A., Curriculum and Instructon, Bilkent University, Turkey, 2019

B.A., Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2013

Other Diplomas & Certificates:

February, 2021. Certificate of Attendance, ELF DAY 5: ENRICHing Pedagogical Issues and Concerns in ELF Research, Istanbul

April, 2021. Certificate of Attendance, TUBİTAK 2237-A, Eğitim Bilimleri Alanındaki Lisansüstü Öğrencilere İngilizce Akademik Yazım ve Yayımlama, Ankara

January, 2019. Certificate of Attendance, SSUA TAP Social Sciences University of Ankara, Testing and Assessment Program, Ankara
Module II: Item Writing

April, 2018. Certificate of Attendance, Forum on Assessment Issues “Item Writing I: Assessing Language Use”, Cyprus

March, 2018. Certificate of Attendance. Testing Training with Dr. Simon Phipps and Suzan Ozgelen Yılmaz

Research Interests:

Neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigations of bilingualism, syntactic and morphological processing in child bilinguals, memory systems and language acquisition & loss, anaphora resolution in bilinguals, heritage language maintenance in children, cognitive processing, the nature of mental representation, reasoning and perception, natural language processing.

Research Projects:

2016-2017. Volunteer, Curriculum Development and Evaluation: A Supplementary English Course for Learners with Dyslexia offered to Turkish Dyslexia Association

2009-2010. Data Contributor, Trainee, METU Spoken Turkish Corpus Project, TUBİTAK 108K283

Publications :

Saricaoglu, A., & Atak, N. (2022). Syntactic Complexity and Lexical Complexity in Argumentative Writing: Variation by Proficiency. Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 16(1), 56-73.

Atak, N., & Saricaoglu, A. (2021). Syntactic complexity in L2 learners’ argumentative writing: Developmental stages and the within genre topic effect. Assessing Writing, 47, 100506.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asw.2020.100506

Atak, N. (2019). Written Complexity Developmental Stages of Turkish EFL Learners in Argumentative Writing (Master thesis, Bilkent University (Turkey)).

Talks / Presentations:

Atak , N. (2019). Written Complexity Developmental Stages of Turkish EFL Learners in Argumentative Writing, 19th International INGED ELT Conference

Atak, N. (2018). First-year University Students’ Use of Formulaic Sequences in Oral Discourse, IATEFL RESIG Conference at Bahçeşehir University

Atak, N. (2018). First-year University Students’ Use of Formulaic Sequences in Oral Discourse, Atılım University SFL/DML Annual Teacher Research Conference