Mehmet Kanik
Visiting Assistant Professor

446 Agnes Arnold Hall
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Education

• 2010: Doctor of Philosophy, English Language Teaching Program, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Dissertation Title: “The Use of Pragmatic Strategies by Nonnative English-Speaking Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Turkey and Native English-Speaking Teachers of English as a Second Language in the USA”
• 2003-2005: PhD coursework, Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
• 2003: Masters of Science, TESOL Program, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
• 2000: Bachelor of Arts, Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Research Interests

• Cross-cultural pragmatics
• Speech acts
• Cross-linguistic influence
• Testing pragmatic competence
• English as a lingua franca
• Acquisition of Turkish morphology