SWADA-Spoken and Written Academic Discourse Analysis Research Group

Welcome to SWADA Research Group.. We focus on ESP/EAP with our research group by examining spoken and written academic discourses for teaching purposes.

News

12/04/2024

Special Lecture in Honor of Prof. Viviana Cortes by SWADA members (Assoc. Prof. Betül Bal-Gezegin and Assoc. Prof. Nur Yiğitoğlu Aptoula)
11/04/2024

New SWADA members on board
11/02/2024

SWADA Members presented their research at METU ESP Conference
10/30/2024

''Beyond General Academic Word Lists'' by SWADA in collaboration with Erciyes University and Boğaziçi University
09/16/2024

SWADA at the 6th International ESP Conference 2024
07/12/2024

SWADA Research Group at TaLC 2024: Leading Insights into Academic Discourse
04/23/2024

New publication by SWADA members (Yiğitoğlu-Aptoula & Bal-Gezegin, 2024)
04/15/2024

New publication by SWADA members (Özer & Akbaş, 2024)
12/18/2023

New publication by SWADA members (Sönmez & Akbaş, 2023)

Recent Publications

Assembling a justified list of academic words in veterinary medicine: The Veterinary Medicine Academic Word List (VMAWL)

Özer M., Akbaş E.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, vol.74, pp.29-42, 2024 (SSCI)

'Great work folks!': establishing interpersonal communication through politeness strategies in transparent peer reviews of research articles

Sonmez D., AKBAŞ E.
IBERICA, vol.2023, no.46, pp.69-96, 2023 (AHCI)

Exploring rhetorical moves in a digital academic genre: A cross-disciplinary study of the highlights section

Akbaş E., Farnia M.
IBERICA, no.42, pp.85-114, 2022 (AHCI)

A frequency-based exploratory study of word combinations by EFL learners towards adjective-noun collocations

Akbaş E., Yükselir C.
CÍRCULO DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA A LA COMUNICACIÓN, vol.97, pp.1-16, 2024 (SSCI)

The developmental trajectory of contrast markers in children’s writing across four grade levels

Barbaros E., Akbaş E.
LINGUA, vol.279, pp.1-16, 2022 (SSCI)

A Corpus-driven Cross-disciplinary Study of Inclusive and Exclusive We in Research Article Abstracts

Doğan Uçar A., Akbaş E.
LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, vol.15, no.1, pp.180-204, 2022 (Scopus)

Establishing authorial presence by the exclusive-we: a functional approach to self-mentions in engineering research articles

SOLSUN A., AKBAŞ E.
Participatory Educational Research, vol.9, no.3, pp.281-295, 2022 (Scopus)

Accuracy order in L2 grammatical morphemes: Corpus evidence from different proficiency levels of Turkish learners of English

AKBAŞ E., Dincer Z. O.
STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING, vol.11, no.4, pp.607-627, 2021 (SSCI)

An exploratory study of epistemic stance in results and discussion sections of medical research articles

Doğan Z. N., Akbaş E.
Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, vol.25, no.3, pp.1132-1150, 2021 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

Exploring the functions of okay as a discourse marker in an English-medium instruction class

Akbaş E., Gezegin B. B.
in: English as the Medium of Instruction in Turkish Higher Education: Policy, Practice and Progress , Yasemin Kırkgöz,Ali Karakaş, Editor, Springer Nature, London, pp.233-256, 2022