Join SLAT in congratulating Dr. Hayriye Kayi-Aydar for being named one of the recipients of the 2024 Mentoring Future Scholars Award, which is bestowed by the University of Arizona. Dr. Kayi-Aydar is an Associate Professor in SLAT and the Department of English, and her research works with discourse, narrative, and ESL pedagogy, at the intersections of poststructural SLA approaches and interactional sociolinguistics. Her specific research interests are identity (re)construction and language learning/teaching, positioning, agency, membership, and power in classroom talk and teacher/learner narratives. Her most recent work investigates how language teachers from different ethnic and racial backgrounds construct professional identities and how they position themselves in relation to others in contexts that include English language learners.
Read more about Dr. Kayi-Aydar's award here: https://universityevents.arizona.edu/person/hayriye-kayi-aydar-phd