Research Interests
Second language acquisition
Bilingualism
Heritage language acquisition
Education
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, Urbana, US.
M.A., Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey.
B.A., Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey.
Grants
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities (2018-Present)
Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring, 2022)
Awards and Honors
The Paula Menyuk Travel Award, The 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD-47) (Fall, 2022)
C. W. Kim Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring, 2022)
Graduate College Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2022, Fall 2020)
SLATE Doctoral Research Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Fall, 2021)
Henry R. Kahane award for outstanding TA in non-western languages, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring, 2021)
CeLCAR Student Travel Stipend Award (to the ten best student abstracts), Indiana University Bloomington (Spring, 2020)
SLATE Conference Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Spring, 2020)
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their students: 2 out of 2 semesters of instruction, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2019-2020)
Recent Publications
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. Acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish heritage speakers in the United States [Manuscript in preparation].
Coşkun Kunduz, A. Heritage language acquisition and maintenance of Turkish in the United States: Challenges to teaching Turkish as a heritage language [Manuscript submitted for publication].
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2022). Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.21027.cos
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2022). Sources of variability in the acquisition of Differential Object Marking by Turkish heritage language children in the United States. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-14. doi: 10.1017/S1366728921001000
Coşkun Kunduz, A., & Montrul, S. (2021). The L1 Acquisition of Evidentiality in Turkish: The Case of Older Children. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Central Asian Language and Linguistics (ConCALL-4), 259–272.
Coşkun, A., & Gürel, A. (2018). Türkçenin yabancı dil olarak öğreniminde durum eklerinin kulllanımı [The use of case morphemes in Turkish as a second language]. In Ü. D. Turan, Y. Kopkallı & A. Balcı (Eds). Dilbilimde güncel tartışmalar (pp. 85–95). 31. Ulusal Dilbilim Kurultayı Bildirileri [Proceedings of the 31st National Congress on Linguistics]. Ankara: Dilbilim Derneği Yayınları.