Aysel Saricaoglu

Super excited to attend the 21st #EALTA Conference this week in Salzburg, Austria! @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social and I will be presenting our study on interactive language use in a large-scale online written interaction task Friday morning. Hope to see (at least) some of you there!

What can a corpus tell us about school writing? Findings, challenges, and future directions Much child corpus research has focused on the language of school writing. In the first part of this paper, I discuss what this work can contribute to …

In case anyone needs some weekend reading, my contribution to a special issue of Applied Corpus Linguistics, dedicated to corpus research into children's writing, is now available open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Use of Corpus Linguistics in ReaLiTea to Empower Teacher Development An overview of how we use Corpus Linguistics to create grounded understandings of how language teachers share knowledge

A few words by @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social about how we have been using Corpus Linguistics in the ReaLiTea project (@realitea.bsky.social ) to better understand how language teachers and language teaching researchers share professional knowledge.
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Collaborative spirit and Turkish hospitality | Aysel Saricaoglu In his blog post, our Erasmus+ ReaLiTea Info project team member Kenan Dikilitas captures the rich dialogue and collaborative spirit of our recent meeting in Ankara. Take a look at his reflections: ...

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In person, from left to right: Raúl García, Yela Schauwecker, Kenan Dikilitas, Achilleas Kostoulas, Elena Motsiou, Caro Blume, Julia Pittenauer, Julia Hüttner, Aysel Saricaoglu. On screen: Christina Ringel, Louise Caruso, Saskia Schabio, Emma Marsden

The ReaLiTea Team in Ankara and online: Well-fed and looking good!

We also were very productive: Our framework for foreign language teachers' research literacies is nearing completion, related teaching and learning materials are being piloted, and you can join the conversation at ogy.de/ReaLiTea

We will update each other on the progress of the work packages, discuss our teaching modules and the virtual community of practice (www.project.uni-stuttgart.de/realitea) and work on our first interim report. Be sure to check out our webpage (realitea.info) in the coming weeks for details.

Fairy chimneys (spires of rock formed by erosion) in Uçhisar, Cappadocia.

We are excited to pack our bags for our second transnational meeting in Ankara! We're getting in the mood with a trip to Cappadocia, followed by two days of intense exchange about current issues in the ReaLiTea project.
Photo by Theugursevinc: Fairy chimneys in Uçhisar, Cappadocia. CC-BY-SA 4.0

Project @ReaLitea members at a well-set table

@ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social set the bar for transnational meetings very high!

Caro Blume, a middle-aged white cis woman with short brown hair, glasses, sitting in front of a plate of baked goods and a laptop, looking into the distance and laughing loudly.

Did I enjoy myself in Ankara @ the ReaLiTea @realitea.bsky.social project meeting? Indeed I did!

Working with such talented colleagues is a privilege.
@rgarcia.bsky.social @ayselsaricaoglu.bsky.social @achilleaskostoulas.com @oasisdatabase.bsky.social