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Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer

  • Assistant Professor

Contact

sonsaat@iastate.edu

515-294-2566

Ross
527 Farm House Ln
Ames IA
50011-1054

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List of research and teaching areas

  • Oral communication skills
  • L2 pronunciation teaching and learning
  • computer-assisted language learning
  • Linguistics
  • ESL/EFL

Sinem Sonsaat-Hegelheimer (M.A., Hacettepe University; PhD, Iowa State University), Assistant Professor, works on second language pronunciation teaching and learning, materials development and evaluation, and computer-assisted language learning. She has co-authored chapters in several books and published her research on various journals such as TESOL Quarterly, CATESOL Journal, and Speech Communication. She chaired the Speech Pronunciation and Listening Interest Section (SPLIS) of TESOL International Association between 2020-2021. She is the editorial assistant of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation since 2015, and she is the co-editor of “Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and teaching” (Wiley, 2022) with John Levis and Tracey Derwing.

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Education

PhD Applied Linguistics and Technology, 2017

MA, English Language Teaching, 2010

BA, English Language Teaching, with a Minor in German Language Teaching 2007

Selected Publications

  • Ding, S., Liberatore, C., Sonsaat, S., Lucic, I., Silpachai, A., Zhao, G., Chukharev-Hudilainen, E., Levis, J., Gutierrez-Osuna, R. (2019). Golden speaker builder: An interactive tool for pronunciation training. Speech Communication., 115, 51-66.
  • Levis, J., Derwing, T., Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, S. Eds. (2022) Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and practice. Wiley Blackwell.
  • Sonsaat-Hegelheimer, S., & McCrocklin, S. (2022). Research informed materials for pronunciation teaching.
  • In J. Levis, T. Derwing, & S. Sonsaat-Hegelheimer (Eds.). Second language pronunciation: Bridging the gap between research and practice. (pp. 293-313). Wiley Blackwell.
  • Sonsaat, S. (2018). Native and non-native English-speaking teachers’ expectations of teacher’s manuals accompanying general English and pronunciation skills books. The CATESOL Journal. 113-138.

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