Beyza Sumer

I have a degree in Foreign Language Education, Boğaziçi University (2004) in Istanbul, Turkey. I worked as an English teacher at all levels for five years and attended MA and PhD courses on Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University. I am interested in Turkish Sign Language and its acquisition by deaf children.
I started my PhD from the ERC project as of February 2010. I will investigate language specific aspects of spatial language in Turkish Sign Language supervised by Asli Ozyurek.