Dr des. Şenel Symons
Position:
Instructor in Turkish
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Research Interests:
- Sociolinguistics
- Gender Studies
- Academic Computing
Current Projects:
- Postgraduate Diploma, University of Oxford, GB: “Information Technologies in University Teaching”
- Şenel Symons 2012: Colloquial Turkish, London: Routledge. (“Colloquial Turkish” will enable the users to assimilate socio-cultural information and related linguistic skills.)
Completed Projects:
- Şenel Şimşek 2007: “Turkish for Self-Study”: Photo Dictionary (Turkish-English-Turkish), Language Games, Language Tests, Lecture Notes on Turkish Literature, Culture and Politics (An award winning project in cooperation with the Computing Services at the University of Oxford.) (http://turkishonline.orient.ox.ac.uk)
Courses Taught:
- Political and Cultural Articles
- Modern Turkish Literary Texts
- Introduction to Turkish Studies
- Essay Writing
- Language Development Skills
- Aural Comprehension
- Spoken Turkish
- Turkish Grammar
- Translation
Recent Publications:
- Şenel Symons 2011: Political and Cultural Articles, London: Routledge.
(This book comprises articles dealing with modern Turkish culture, politics, history and literature.) - Şenel Symons 2011: Pragmatic Conditions of Turkish, in: The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, (Proceedings of 2010 Social Sciences Conference, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Şenel Şimşek 2000: Soziale Markierung im Türkischen [The Social Marking in Turkish] in: Frauen in Kultur und Gesellschaft, Mainz: Stauffenburg Press (The proceedings of the 2nd Congress of Fachtagung Frauen-/Gender - Forschung in Rheinland-Pfalz, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.) (This section of the book deals with gender discrimination through the Turkish language.)
- Şenel Şimşek 1996: Women in Turkish Law: ‘Mother-Law’ not Protecting the Mothers, in: Forum Recht, (BAKJ), 1 1996 (Proceedings of The International Congress of Law, University of Ruhr – Bochum, Germany.) (This article deals with the discriminatory articles in the former Turkish Civil and Penal Codes and discusses the concepts of family, sexual honour and gender related traditions in Turkish society.)
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