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Furkan Sevket Kir (he/him/his)

Assistant Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Graduate Student

Predoctoral Instructor

Contact Information

furkan@uw.edu

Fields of Interest

Applied LinguisticsDiscourse AnalysisEnglish Medium InstructionLanguage PedagogyLanguage PolicyMultilingualismRace and EthnicitySociolinguisticsSociology of EducationTESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Biography

M.A., TESOL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021

Awards: 

Summer Recruitment Award, 2021

Graduate and Professional Student Senate Travel Grant, 2022 & 2024

Hilen Summer Research Fellowship, 2023

Research

Selected Research

• Kir, F. S. (2024). English-medium instruction (EMI) as the great (un)equaliser: experiences of former EMI students in Turkey. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2024.2302950 
• Kir, F. S. (2024). Intersectionality of sexuality, ethnicity, and ‘(non-) native-speakerness’: a narrative inquiry of a gay Kurdish ESL teacher in Canada. Language and Education. 38(2). 237-250. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2023.2221223
• Kir, F. S. (2022). The effect of racialization on EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the ‘native speaker’ construct. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2125000

Courses Taught

Spring 2024

• ENGL 131 Z: Composition: Exposition

Spring 2023

• ENGL 131 W: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2023

• ENGL 110 D: Critical Composition II: Research

Autumn 2022

• ENGL 109 E: Critical Composition I: Inquiry

Spring 2022

• ENGL 131 B2: Composition: Exposition

Winter 2022

• ENGL 131 N: Composition: Exposition

Autumn 2021

• ENGL 131 B2: Composition: Exposition - Course Website

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