This page is mainly a jumping off point to other sites I write and/or maintain, plus a few miscellaneous pages that don’t fit anywhere else.
My main site, containing some of my papers on linguistics and philosophy.
A blog about English for Academic Purposes.
Website for my unit in Bilkent University’s Faculty Academic English programme, which is where I work. (Note that I no longer maintain the FAE-FEASS or main FAE sites.)
I generally prefer to publish online, since it is quicker and makes it more likely that someone will actually read what I've written. However, I have a few dead-tree publications as well.
(1997) “Combining Cognitive and Language Skills: a critical thinking course for social science students.” In Jerry Spring and Bryan Gilroy (eds.) English Medium Higher Education: the challenge of content, skills and language. Ankara: Bilkent University.
(2004) “‘Male Logic’ and ‘Women’s Intuition’.” In Patsy Callaghan and Ann Dobyns (eds.) Meeting Minds: a brief rhetoric for writers and readers. New York: Longman. (A reprint of my original online article.)
(2004) “Guns, Lots of Guns: the role of violence in The Matrix.” Molly: a pop culture zine 1. pp. 20–32. (Also available at academia.edu.)
(2005) “Easing Students into Academia: popular culture in the CBI curriculum”. In Challenge in Learning: helping learners realise their full potential. Ankara: Bilkent University. (Also available at academia.edu.)
(2005) “First Steps to the Virtual Classroom” In Justin Alam (ed.) FAE: Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium. Ankara: Bilkent University.
(2006) “‘How do you know she’s a woman?’ Features, prototypes and category stress in Turkish kadın and kız.” In June Luchjenbroers (ed.) Cognitive Linguistics: investigations across languages, fields, and philosophical Boundaries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(2011) Giving feedback online: pros and cons. Modern English Teacher 20:4 (2011)
Some programs, templates and guides I wrote.
A book I co-wrote with Nick Nicholas. Lojban is a constructed language based on predicate logic—a kind of Esperanto for geeks.
Robin Turner,