Staff Profile
Dr Müge Satar
Reader in Applied Linguistics
- Email: muge.satar@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7797
- Address: Room 1.35
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
King George VI Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Background
Dr Müge Satar pronunciation
Reader in Applied Linguistics | SFHEA | Doçent (Turkey)
Director for Global, ECLS
EU funded Project, PI: https://enacteuropa.com
Co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange https://journal.unicollaboration.org
UNICollaboration General Council member https://www.unicollaboration.org/index.php/about/board/
I am Reader in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. I am interested in communicative and pedagogical aspects of multimodal interaction for online language learning and teaching, focusing on social presence, meaning-making, instruction-giving, task design, and translanguaging. I am the co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange and have publications in leading journals in the field such as Language Learning and Technology, ReCALL, and System. I am the Principal Investigator (coordinator) of the ENACT project https://enacteuropa.com/ co-funded by the European Union. My most recent books are an edited volume Virtual Exchange: Towards Digital Equity in Internationalisation (2021), a co-authored manuscript Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (2023), and a co-edited volume Cultural Tasks For Digital Language Learning (forthcoming).
I joined the Applied Linguistics and Communication team at Newcastle University in December 2016. Prior to that I worked as a Lecturer at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul teaching academic English and TESOL courses. I have also taught English as a foreign language and Turkish as a foreign language at both secondary school level and in adult education in Turkey and in the UK, at King's College, London.
My research interests include Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in particular Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and online language learning and teaching.
I currently supervise 10 doctoral candidates. PhD candidates, please read the information under the Research tab.
Chair of the International Virtual Exchange Conference - IVEC 2020 host, 14-16 September 2020
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS can be found under the PUBLICATIONS tab.
QUALIFICATIONS
SFHEA - Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Doçent (associate professor) in Educational Sciences, Foreign Language Teaching, awarded by Inter-university Council (UAK) of Turkey
PhD in Applied Linguistics
MA in Computer and Instructional Technologies
BA in English Language Teaching
ESTEEM INDICATORS
- Director for Global at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. (2018-2020 co-director, 2020-ongoing director)
- Chair of Board of Studies for our degree programmes at our section, Applied Linguistics and Communication (2018-2019).
- Co-editor of Journal of Virtual Exchange and ARECLS (Annual Review of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences)
- Co-editor of a special issue of Writing & Pedagogy, titled Multimodality in Electronic Feedback in Writing
- Executive Board member (2018-2022), Second publications officer (2018-2022), and General Council member (2022-ongoing) of UNICollaboration
- Secretary for the Computer Mediated Communication Special Interest Group (CMC SIG) for EuroCALL(2014-2018)
- Member of EuroCALL, BAAL and ELTER
Computer-Assisted Language Learning; Online Language Learning and Teaching; Computer-Mediated Communication; Social Presence; Multimodality
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Research
My research to date has focused on technology enhanced foreign language learning and teacher education, particularly on the concept of social presence in multimodal online communication among language learners, interaction and participation in blended learning contexts, instruction-giving sequences in online language teaching, development of speaking and writing skills, task-based language teaching, and affective factors in language learning.
In my research, I employ both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including experimental research design, case studies, questionnaires, interviews, multimodal social semiotic analysis, multimodal interaction analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis and social network analysis.
To get free electronic access to a number of my publications, please go to:
https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/author_pubs.aspx?author_id=224989
Current research projects
Communities, Languages, and Activities App (ENACT), a €270,000 Erasmus Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, (PI). https://enacteuropa.com/ (with Paul Seedhouse, Ahmed Kharrufa (CoIs). Consortium partners: Boğaziçi University, Cultura Foundation, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and University of Helsinki. (2019-2022)
Stevens Initiative: The ABCs of young people and virtual exchange: access, benefits and contents, March-December 2022, Co-I, USD 29,606 https://www.stevensinitiative.org/strengthening-the-field-catalyzing-research-in-virtual-exchange-2022/
Completed research projects
Stevens Initiative: The Causes and Remedies for Marginalization and Underrepresentation in Global Virtual Exchange Initiatives: A Comprehensive Survey of Stakeholders in Four Geopolitical Sectors, January-October 2021, Co-I, USD 19,619 (2021) https://www.stevensinitiative.org/catalyzing-research-in-virtual-exchange-project-updates/
An examination of experienced online language teachers' multimodal instruction-giving practices, funded by Newcastle University, HaSS Faculty Research Fund (PI) (2018-2019)
Providing Technology Enhanced Training for EFL Teacher Trainees, funded by Bogazici University Scientific Research Projects (PI) (2013-2015)
Embedding translation AI in the L2 secondary school classroom: creative applications and potential barriers, funded by Creative Multilingualism (with Nick Riches, PI, and Elaine Lopez) (2019-2020)
British Council IELTS Research Programme on ‘Which specific features of candidate talk do examiners orient to when taking scoring decisions?’ (with Paul Seedhouse, PI) (2019)
Virtual Exchange for Teacher Education: A focus on Critical Digital Literacy, funded by TED University, Scientific Research Projects (with Zeynep Bilki, PI, and Mirjam Hauck) (2019-2020)
Newcastle University, ECLS School Research Committee: Follow-up work on E Critical Skills for Life and Work (2019)
Critical Skills for Life and Work: Developing the Professional Intercultural Communicative Competence of Highly-Skilled Refugees, funded by Erasmus, www.cslw.eu (Tony Young, PI) (2017-2019)
A comparison of synchronous computer-mediated communication technologies for the development of oral skills in a foreign language, funded by Marmara University, Scientific Research Projects Commission. (with Prof. Dr. Nesrin Ozdener, PI and Prof Dr. Servet Bayram). (2006-2007)
Postgraduate supervision
PhD students who have completed are: Homoud Alanazi
I am currently supervising: Afnan Alaloula, Ali Alghamdi, Badryah Almesfer, Dhaif Alzahrani, Gemma Lockey, Lia Cacheiro Quintas, Pattaramas Jantasin, Şaziye Şavaşkan, Szu-Han Ke, Wala Almijiwl
For PhD candidates:
I only consider exceptional applications closely related to my research area: online multimodal language learner interactions or online language teaching both specifically in the context of videoconferencing or virtual exchange.
I will also consider applications related to the ENACT project: Communities, Languages, and Activities App.
Please send me your IELTS scores and your academic transcripts with your proposal.
Potential research topics include: Social presence; Intersubjectivity; Engagement; Interpersonal relations; Translanguaging; Topic management; Digital/multimodal literacies; Teacher education/teaching skills.
I would welcome proposals using the following research methods: Social semiotics; Interactional Sociolinguistics; Multimodal Interaction Analysis; Ethnography; Social Network Analysis; Eye-tracking.
Some of the projects that I supervise:
Ali Alghamdi: The role of the teacher in managing collaboration in synchronous online collaborative language learning: A multimodal analysis
Please be advised that I check similarity scores for post-graduate proposals using Turnitin. You can find more information about plagiarism on the following links:
1. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/subject-support/informed-learner/plagiarism.php
2. http://www.plagiarism.org/teaching-about-plagiarism
3. http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
Also see Activity 10.16 (page198) in Gillet, A., Hammond, A., & Martala, M. (2009). Inside track to successful academic writing. Canada: Pearson Education.
Teaching
I teach on the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL degree.
I am the module leader for:
ALC8022 Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
ALC8036 Materials Design and Evaluation in TESOL
ALC8038 Teaching Languages Online.
I contribute to lectures in ALC8020 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.
A core component in ALC8022 is a curriculum-embedded Virtual Exchange which offers experiential practice in the virtual exchange method. https://microsites.ncl.ac.uk/casestudies/2019/08/15/virtual-exchange-for-internationalisation/
ALC8038 offers both micro-teaching opportunities in class and teaching practice with various groups of real learners, which provide the basis for an assessed reflective log.
I lead a Newcastle University Global Education and Community Fund titled: Collaborative intercultural encounters for global educational experiences. This project aims to enable present-in-person intercultural encounters across the school in order to (a) facilitate dialogue and collaboration among home and international students across different disciplines for global educational experiences, (b) foster intercultural and multilingual awareness, collaboration and team work, and thus employability skills, (c) develop awareness of multiple worldviews and ways of life, (d) support understandings of global citizenship, reflexivity, and social responsibility. To achieve these aims, we will organise a series of collaborative, project-based activities throughout the 2022-23 academic year, which will be co-designed and co-run with our student representatives and post-graduate demonstrators. We will develop materials and resources as well as evaluation and certification tools.
Newcastle University Student Union The Education Awards nominations:
- Outstanding Contribution to Teaching – HASS Faculty (2019)
- Outstanding Contribution to Academic Support (2021)
- Research Supervisor of the Year (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
Publications
- Satar M, Wigham CR. Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis. Routledge, 2023. In Press.
- Satar M, Hauck M, Bilki Z. Multimodal representation in virtual exchange: a social semiotic approach to critical digital literacy. Language Learning & Technology 2023, 27(2), 72-96.
- Bilki Z, Satar M, Sak M. Critical Digital Literacy in Virtual Exchange for ELT Teacher Education: an interpretivist methodology. ReCALL 2023, 35(1), 58-73.
- Kharrufa A, Satar M, Bone Dodds C, Seedhouse P. Supporting Non-Expert Users in Authoring Tasks for Learning Language and Culture: Evaluation Study. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 2022, 12(1), 1-22.
- Alami NH, Albuquerque J, Ashton LS, Elwood JA, Ewoodzie K, Hauck M, Karam J, Klimanova L, Nasr R, Satar M. Marginalization and Underrepresentation in Virtual Exchange: Reasons and Remedies. Journal of International Students 2022, 12(S3), 57-76.
- Almijiwl WF, Satar M. Emergency Remote Teaching During COVID-19: Saudi University Teachers' Perceptions of EFL Classroom Interaction in Synchronous Online Lessons. Bogazici University Journal of Education 2022, 39(Special Issue), 39-67.
- Ganassin S, Satar M, Regan A. Virtual exchange for internationalisation at home in China: staff perspectives. Journal of Virtual Exchange 2021, 4(SI-IVEC2020), 95-116.
- Satar M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021.
- Satar M. Introducing virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.1-13.
- Dodds CB, Whelan A, Kharrufa A, Satar M. Virtual exchange facilitated by interactive, digital, cultural artefacts: communities, languages, and activities app (ENACT). In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.101-112.
- Seedhouse P, Satar M. The Rashomon Effect: Which features of a speaker’s talk do listeners notice?. Classroom Discourse 2023, 14(1), 1-23.
- Seedhouse P, Satar M. Which specific features of candidate talk do examiners orient to when taking scoring decisions?. IELTS Research Reports Online Series 2021, 21(5), 1-58.
- Wigham CR, Satar M. Multimodal (inter)action analysis of task instructions in language teaching via videoconferencing: A case study. ReCALL 2021, 33(3), 195-213.
- Satar M, Hauck M. Exploring Digital Equity in Online Learning Communities (Virtual Exchange). In: Kelly D; de Medeiros A, ed. Language Debates : Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research. London: John Murray Press, 2021, pp.272-292.
- Hauck M, Satar M, Kurek M. Where multimodal literacy meets online language learner autonomy: “Digital resources give us wings”. In: Carolin Fuchs, Mirjam Hauck and Melinda Dooly, ed. Language Education in Digital Spaces: Perspectives on Autonomy and Interaction. Cham: Springer, 2021, pp.85-111.
- Satar M. Speaking with Machines: Interaction with Bots for language teaching and learning. In: Beaven T; Rosell-Aguila F, ed. Innovative language pedagogy report. Voillans, France: https://research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.133-138.
- Satar M, Wigham CR. Delivering task instructions in multimodal synchronous online language teaching. Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d'information et de communication (Alsic) 2020, 23.
- Satar M. L1 for social presence in videoconferencing: A social semiotic account. Language Learning and Technology 2020, 24(1), 129-153.
- Cappellini M, Satar M, Combe C. Editorial. Journal of Virtual Exchange 2020, 3(SI), 1-4.
- Akayoglu S, Satar HM, Dikilitas K, Cirit NC, Korkmazgil S. Digital literacy practices of Turkish pre-service EFL teachers. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2020, 36(1), 85-97.
- Yin Q, Satar M. English as a foreign language learner interactions with chatbots: Negotiation for meaning. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(2), 390-410.
- Satar HM, Akcan S. Pre-service EFL Teachers' Online Participation, Interaction and Social Presence. Language Learning and Technology 2018, 22(1), 157-183.
- Hauck M, Satar HM. Learning and Teaching Languages in Technology-Mediated Contexts: The Relevance of Social Presence, Co-Presence, Participatory Literacy and Multimodal Competence. In: Kern R; Develotte C, ed. Screens and Scenes: Online Multimodal Communication and Intercultural Encounters : Theoretical and Educational Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.133-157.
- Satar HM. New Technologies and Language Learning. TESOL Quarterly 2018, 52(1), 236-238.
- Satar HM, Wigham CR. Multimodal instruction-giving practices in webconferencing-supported language teaching. System 2017, 70, 63-80.
- Chang C, Kelly JC, Satar HM, Strobl C. Electronic feedback on second language writing: A retrospective and prospective essay on multimodality. Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 405-428.
- Strobl C, Satar HM. Spoilt for choice: A plethora of modes for electronic feedback on second language writing. Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 393-403.
- Satar HM. Meaning-making in Online Language Learner Interactions via Desktop Videoconferencing. ReCALL, The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2016, 28(3), 305-325.
- Wigham CR, Satar HM. A Multimodal Analysis of Task Instructions for Webconferencing-supported L2 Interactions: A Pilot Study of the ISMAEL Corpus. In: 4th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia: Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts.
- Satar HM. Sustaining multimodal language learner interactions online. CALICO Journal 2015, 32(3), 480-507.
- Satar HM, Akcan S. Pre-Service Language Teachers’ Reflections on the Implementation of a Blended-Learning Environment. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 2014, 5(3), 42-61.
- Satar HM. Multimodal Language Learner Interactions via Desktop Videoconferencing within a Framework of Social Presence: Gaze. ReCALL: The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2013, 25(1), 122-142.
- Özdener N, Satar HM. Computer-Mediated Communication in Foreign Language Education: Use of Target Language and Learner Perceptions. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2008, 9(2), 9.
- Satar HM, Özdener N. The Effects of Synchronous CMC on Speaking Proficiency and Anxiety: Text vs. Voice Chat. The Modern Language Journal 2008, 92(4), 595-613.