About
Dr Duygu Candarli is a Lecturer in TESOL at the University of Southampton. She specialises in second language writing, writing assessment, academic discourse, corpus linguistics, longitudinal and mixed methods research in applied linguistics. She holds a PhD in Language Education from the University of Manchester. Prior to joining the University of Southampton, she taught and researched TESOL-related areas at several universities.
Dr Candarli sits on the committee of the BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education (LKALE) Special Interest Group as a meeting and web coordinator. She is an Associate Editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications journal and a member of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Talent Peer Review College.
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Research
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- Second language writing, writing assessment
- Corpus linguistics, learner corpora, phraseology
- Academic discourse, discourse analysis
Current research
Dr Duygu Candarli’s research is at the intersection of language education and corpus linguistics. She is a mixed-methods researcher, with expertise in longitudinal research and quantitative data analysis methods. She combines corpus linguistics methods and qualitative methods, including interviews in her research. She specialises in second language writing, writing assessment, corpus linguistics and learner corpora. She is also interested in academic discourse and discourse analysis. She has published her research in leading journals of the field, including the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, Reading and Writing, Critical Discourse Studies, and Corpora.
Dr Candarli has secured research funding from Cambridge Assessment (PI), the British Academy (Co-I), the John Rylands Research Institute (PI), and the European Union's Horizon Europe programme (Co-I). She is currently a Co-PI of an IELTS joint-funded research project on second language writing. She is invited to act as a reviewer for a number of international journals, including Applied Linguistics, The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and Corpora. She is a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College and is regularly invited to review research grant proposals. She is an Associate Editor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications journal (Springer Nature).
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