Saniye Gokcora

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Associate Professor
Academic Literacy and Linguistics

EMAIL: sgokcora@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: N-482

Office Hours:

Phone: +1 (212) 776 7011

Resume

Prof. Gokcora is an Assistant Professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. Upon receiving a Fulbright scholarship, she came to the U.S. and completed an M.A. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. degree in Second Languages and Cultures Education at the University of Minnesota. She worked as a faculty developer at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA and as an Assessment Coordinator at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) of the University of Minnesota. She also worked as an ESL instructor in many colleges and universities in New Jersey and is very glad to be at BMCC since she has a great passion to teach beginning Freshman and ESL students. She also taught Methodology, Teaching Grammar, Freshman Composition, Practicum to undergraduates in the department of English Language Teaching at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey.
She has been teaching online ESL and linguistics courses using collaborative online international learning (COIL) at BMCC.

Expertise

Her research interests are Second language reading in terms of using constant quizzes and writing, use of  technology in second language learning, experiences and beliefs of faculty in community colleges,  faculty development, assessment in second language, especially concerning international teaching assistants.

Degrees

  • B.A. Hacettepe University, Ankara. Turkey, English Language and Literature,1983
  • M.A. University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN, Teaching English as a Second Language,1987
  • Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Mpls, MN, Second Languages and Cultures Education ,1994
  • M.A. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Near Eastern Civilizations and Cultures,1997

Courses Taught

Research and Projects

  • Quizzes and Student Improvement of Reading: A Pilot Study in a Community College Setting
    The current research project examines the effect of frequent quizzes given at a remedial academic reading class at an urban-serving higher education institution. The current frequent quizzes research has implications as a teaching tool and a motivation.
  • Student Perceptions of Using DIIGO and improvement of their reading skills.
  • Community College Faculty Members’ Experiences and Needs at Different Stages of Tenure. This study, based on a survey and semi-structured interviews, aims to explore the experiences and needs across different discipline areas of pre-tenure faculty who has been teaching one to three years, four to six years, and those faculty who has more ten years of teaching experience.
  • Integrating “Global Competencies” in the writing ESL curriculum and asking the right questions:
  • ESL Students’ Perceptions of Group Work and the Improvement of Writing in an Intensive Writing Course in a Community College.

Publications

 

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

  • Fulbright Scholarship, United States (Univ. of Minnesota)- 1985 -1987
  • Pew Teaching Leadership Award, 1989 & 1993 (University of Minnesota)
  • Marquis Who’s Who, 2007 ed.
  • Steward Travel Award, 2018, 2019 (CUNY)

Additional Information