Teaching

Very proud to be #1 once again in my department according to student evaluations - #3 in the faculty of social sciences! (Spring 2023 semester)

My collection of phonological and historical linguistics problems from Turkic languages  

“Cool idea!”

Bert Vaux, Reader in Phonology & Morphology, University of Cambridge, UK

“Interesting exercises!”

Baris Kabak, Professor of Linguistics, University of Wurzburg, Germany

“This is great!”

Bilal Kirkici, Associate Professor, Foreign Language Education, METU-Ankara

“This is a great resource!”

Martina Gracanin-Yuksek, Professor, Foreign Language Education, METU-Ankara

“Thank you very much, Mary Ann! This is going to be a great resource!”

Patrick Taylor, Mardin Artuklu University 

“This is super cool…I would use this in my course.”

Courses taught at:

University of the Virgin Islands

Language Theory

History of the English Language

Research and Applied Writing

Scientific Writing

World Literature I

Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus

Oral Communication (lecture videos)

Listening and Pronunciation

Linguistics I (lecture videos)

Linguistics II (lecture videos)

Language Acquisition (lecture videos)

Contrastive Turkish-English Structure (syllabus)

The English Lexicon (lecture videos)

History of English (syllabus)

Global English (BA and MA) (syllabus)

Current Issues in Linguistics - Linguistics and Writing (syllabus)

Hittite Language and Culture (syllabus)

Mythology (lecture videos)

Linguistics in English Language Teaching (MA)

Second Language Acquisition (MA)

University of Cambridge

Phonological Theory

Plovdiv University Paisii Hilendarskii

Sociolinguistics

The English Lexicon

Mythology of Language

Northwestern University

Graduate Seminar in Phonology: Learning New Sounds (syllabus)

Sound Patterns in Human Language 

Structure of Arabic (syllabus)

Language, Politics and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (syllabus)

Teaching Assistantships

(MIT, Harvard University, or Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute)

Introduction to Sociolinguistics                                             

Introduction to Field Methods

Sound Change in Progress    

Statistical Approaches to Human Language Acquisition

Speech Processing and Language Acquisition

Introduction to Linguistics (evaluation scores 6/7 and 5.7/7)

Introduction to Phonology at the Graduate Level (evaluation score 6/7)

Dialects of English                                                               

Knowledge of Language

MA advising:

2016 Reza Neiriz Naghadehi

The Effect of Adding a Task-Based Speaking Test on the Predictive Power of English for Academic Purposes Proficiency Tests

2014 Burçin Önal.

Exploring the Linguistic Landscape of North Cyprus and its Use in ELT Classrooms.

External Advising, Graduate Thesis Committee, Department of English Language Teaching, Near East University