Hayriye Kayi-Aydar, PhD

Associate Professor, English
College of Social And Behavioral Sciences
Hayriye Kayi-Aydar

2024 Mentoring Future Scholars Award

"I am deeply grateful and honored to receive the Mentoring Future Scholars Award. As someone who pursued graduate education in a foreign country, I know how transformative mentorship can be. I was fortunate to have dedicated faculty who believed in me and supported my growth. Now it is my privilege to pay that forward and help guide the next generation of outstanding scholars."

Dr. Kayi-Aydar's research works with discourse, narrative, and English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogy, at the intersections of the poststructural Second Language Acquisition (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. 

Award announcement from the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences