Dr. Umit Boz

Pronouns: he/him

Positions

Associate Professor (Teaching)

Werklund School of Education, Specialization, Language and Literacy

Contact information

umit.boz@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Google Scholar

Phone number

Office: 403.220.2136

Location

Office: EDT322

Background

Educational Background

Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction (Language and Literacies Specialization), State University of New York at Albany,

M.S. TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), State University of New York at Albany,

B.S. Avionics (Ranked first in graduating class of the program), Anadolu University,

Minor Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Anadolu University,

Biography

Dr. Umit Boz is an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Werklund School of Education. He received his B.Sc. in Avionics (Aviation Electronics) from the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Anadolu University, Turkey. He then pursued his graduate studies at the State University of New York at Albany where he received his M.Sc. in TESOL and his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in Language and Literacies. Dr. Boz teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on subjects related to Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Learning.

Professional & Community Affiliations

The Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics / L’Association Canadienne de Linguistique
The Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing / L'Association Canadienne de Rédactologie

Research

Areas of Research

Scholarly Activity

Positioned at the intersection of Applied Linguistics, Communication, and Education, Dr. Boz's research centres on developing and applying novel discourse analysis techniques to better understand how students negotiate and (re)construct their interactional roles and identities in a variety of settings, including situated interactions, task-based dialogues, and small group learning.

Interests:

Second language teaching and learning
Bi/Multilingual education
English for academic purposes (EAP) pedagogy and research
Content-based instruction
Intercultural pragmatics
Computational discourse analysis
Collaborative learning

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
EDER 66952 LEC 01 01	Aspect of Secd Lang & Culture	2021
EDUC 435 SEC 02 S02	Literacy, Language and Culture	2020

Awards

Werklund Teaching Excellence Award, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. 2022
The President’s Award for Leadership-International Student Leadership Award, State University of New York at Albany. 2014
Dr. Anna Maria Bonaventura Memorial Scholarship, State University of New York at Albany. 2013
The Mauritz Johnson Scholarship, State University of New York at Albany. 2012

Publications

Transcultural pedagogies for multilingual classrooms: Responding to changing realities in theory and practice. Zaidi, R., Boz, U., & Moreau, E. (Eds.) . Multilingual Matters. (2023)
Second language socialization in higher education: An exploratory case study. Boz, U., Barrantes, L., & Tweedie, M. G.. Journal of Educational Thought. 51(3), 361–83. (2018)
Student leadership in small group science inquiry. Oliveira, A.W., Boz, U., Broadwell, G.A., & Sadler, T.D.. Research in Science and Technological Education. 33(3), 281–297. (2014)
Modeling sociocultural phenomena in discourse. Broadwell, G.A.,Stromer-Galley, J., Strzalkowski, T., Shaikh, S., Taylor, S., Liu, T., Boz, U., Elia, A., JiaoL., & Webb, N.. Journal of Natural Language Engineering. 19(2), 213–257. (2013)
Using imageability and topic chaining to locate metaphors in linguistic corpora. Broadwell, G.A., Boz, U., Cases, I., Strzalkowski, T., Feldman, L., Taylor, S., Shaikh, S., Liu, T., Cho, K., & Webb, N. . In A. M. Greenberg, W. G. Kennedy, N. D. Bos and S. Marcus (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Volume 7812, (pp 102-110). (2013)
Influence and power in group interactions. Strzalkowski, T., Shaikh, S., Liu, T., Broadwell, G. A., Stromer-Galley, J., Taylor, S., Boz, U., Ren, X. . In A. M. Greenberg, W. G. Kennedy, N. D. Bos and S. Marcus (Eds.), Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. Volume 7812, (pp 19-27. (2013)