Staff Profile
Dr Müge Satar
Reader in Applied Linguistics
- Email: muge.satar@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5070
- Address: Room 2.03
School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
King George VI Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Dr Müge Satar pronunciation
Director of Global (School of ECLS)
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I am Reader in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK and have expertise on technology enhanced language learning and teaching, particularly on the communicative and pedagogical aspects of multimodal and intercultural interaction in online settings, focusing on social presence, meaning-making, instruction-giving, and task design. Through the lens of the theory of social presence and using mixed methods as well as social semiotics and multimodal (inter)action analysis, my work aims to understand how people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds and from different communities establish interpersonal relationships and improve their digital, linguistic, and intercultural communication skills. I am particularly interested in contributing to social and intercultural connectedness through fostering interpersonal relationships and participation in physical and online communities.
I was Principal Investigator of the Communities, Languages, and Activities App (ENACT) project https://enacteuropa.com (2019-2022) co-funded by the European Union. The main aim of the project was to foster intercultural and intergenerational social cohesion and understanding between migrant and host community members through two-way knowledge exchange facilitated by digital tools. We worked with several organisations supporting migrant communities including the Newcastle City of Sanctuary, Action Foundation, and the North East Solidarity Teaching (NEST). We are currently organising impact events for schools and communities at the University and at the Great North Museum (Newcastle Upon Tyne) in collaboration with Tyne and Wear museums.
I am a General Council member of UNICollaboration https://www.unicollaboration.org/index.php/general-council/ and the co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange https://journal.unicollaboration.org I have publications in leading journals in the field such as Language Learning and Technology, ReCALL, and System. My most recent books are an edited volume Virtual Exchange: Towards Digital Equity in Internationalisation (2021), a co-authored manuscript Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (2023), and a co-edited volume Cultural Tasks For Digital Language Learning (forthcoming).
I joined the Applied Linguistics and Communication team at Newcastle University as Lecturer in December 2016. Prior to that I worked as a Lecturer at Boğaziçi University, Turkey teaching academic English and TESOL courses. I have also taught English as a foreign language and Turkish as a foreign language at both secondary school level and in adult education in Turkey and in the UK at King's College, London.
I currently supervise 8 doctoral candidates. PhD candidates, please read the information under the Research tab.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS can be found under the PUBLICATIONS tab.
QUALIFICATIONS
SFHEA - Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Doçent (associate professor) in Educational Sciences, Foreign Language Teaching, awarded by Inter-university Council (UAK) of Turkey
PhD in Applied Linguistics
MA in Computer and Instructional Technologies
BA in English Language Teaching
ESTEEM INDICATORS
Keynote presentations:
- May 2023: Virtual Mobility for All - Teaching and Learning in a Connected World, Sant Augustin, Germany
- June 2023: 40th CALICO Annual Conference, Minneapolis, USA
- May 2024: PPTELL Conference, Taiwan https://conference.pptell.org/index.php
- forthcoming: March 2025, International Meeting on Foreign Language Learning in Tandem (IMFLIT) conference, Mexico
Chair of the International Virtual Exchange Conference - IVEC 2020 host, 14-16 September 2020
HaSS Faculty Acting Dean for Global (August 2023 - January 2024)
Director for Global at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. (2018-2020 co-director, 2020-ongoing director)
Chair of Board of Studies for our degree programmes at our section, Applied Linguistics and Communication (2018-2019).
Co-editor of Journal of Virtual Exchange and ARECLS (Annual Review of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences)
Co-editor of a special issue of Writing & Pedagogy, titled Multimodality in Electronic Feedback in Writing
Executive Board member (2018-2022), Second publications officer (2018-2022), and General Council member (2022-ongoing) of UNICollaboration
Secretary for the Computer Mediated Communication Special Interest Group (CMC SIG) for EuroCALL(2014-2018)
Member of EuroCALL, BAAL and ELTER
EXPERTISE
Computer-Assisted Language Learning; Online Language Learning and Teaching; Computer-Mediated Communication; Social Presence; Multimodality
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My research to date has focused on technology enhanced foreign language learning and teacher education, particularly on the concept of social presence in multimodal online communication among language learners, interaction and participation in blended learning contexts, instruction-giving sequences in online language teaching, development of speaking and writing skills, task-based language teaching, and affective factors in language learning.
In my research, I employ both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, including experimental research design, case studies, questionnaires, interviews, multimodal social semiotic analysis, multimodal interaction analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis and social network analysis.
To get free electronic access to a number of my publications, please go to:
https://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/author_pubs.aspx?author_id=224989
Current research projects
Connect4Innovation: UK-Turkey Higher Education Institutional Partnerships Fund: Global Graduates through Virtual Exchange: A Model for Language Teachers and Internationalization in UK-Türkiye Higher Education (GlobVELT UK-TR), (Co-I), with Asuman Asik, PI (Gazi University, Turkey). October 2023-2025, £23.5K https://globvelt.com/
Completed research projects
Communities, Languages, and Activities App (ENACT), a €270,000 Erasmus Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, (PI). https://enacteuropa.com/ (with Paul Seedhouse, Ahmed Kharrufa (CoIs). Consortium partners: Boğaziçi University, Cultura Foundation, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and University of Helsinki. (2019-2022)
Stevens Initiative: The ABCs of young people and virtual exchange: access, benefits and contents, March-December 2022, Co-I, USD 29,606 https://www.stevensinitiative.org/strengthening-the-field-catalyzing-research-in-virtual-exchange-2022/
Stevens Initiative: The Causes and Remedies for Marginalization and Underrepresentation in Global Virtual Exchange Initiatives: A Comprehensive Survey of Stakeholders in Four Geopolitical Sectors, January-October 2021, Co-I, USD 19,619 (2021) https://www.stevensinitiative.org/catalyzing-research-in-virtual-exchange-project-updates/
An examination of experienced online language teachers' multimodal instruction-giving practices, funded by Newcastle University, HaSS Faculty Research Fund (PI) (2018-2019)
Providing Technology Enhanced Training for EFL Teacher Trainees, funded by Bogazici University Scientific Research Projects (PI) (2013-2015)
Embedding translation AI in the L2 secondary school classroom: creative applications and potential barriers, funded by Creative Multilingualism (with Nick Riches, PI, and Elaine Lopez) (2019-2020)
British Council IELTS Research Programme on ‘Which specific features of candidate talk do examiners orient to when taking scoring decisions?’ (with Paul Seedhouse, PI) (2019)
Virtual Exchange for Teacher Education: A focus on Critical Digital Literacy, funded by TED University, Scientific Research Projects (with Zeynep Bilki, PI, and Mirjam Hauck) (2019-2020)
Newcastle University, ECLS School Research Committee: Follow-up work on E Critical Skills for Life and Work (2019)
Critical Skills for Life and Work: Developing the Professional Intercultural Communicative Competence of Highly-Skilled Refugees, funded by Erasmus, www.cslw.eu (Tony Young, PI) (2017-2019)
A comparison of synchronous computer-mediated communication technologies for the development of oral skills in a foreign language, funded by Marmara University, Scientific Research Projects Commission. (with Prof. Dr. Nesrin Ozdener, PI and Prof Dr. Servet Bayram). (2006-2007)
Postgraduate supervision
PhD students who have completed are:
Homoud Hadad S Alanazi (2020). An Examination of the Impact of Using Hybrid MOOCs on Students' Experiences and Achievements within Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
Afnan Alaloula (2023). Digital Literacies for English Language Learners: a Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach to Investigate Saudi Students’ Reading of English Tweets
Noelia Concheria (2023). Understanding Student Discontinuation in Online Language Courses in Corporate Training
Saziye Tasdemir (2023). Using a video tagging application to support professional development and reflection: a case study of pre-service and in-service teachers.
Ali Alghamdi (2023). A conversation analytic study of online video-mediated L2 classrooms: the affordances of audio activation/deactivation features in interaction management
Dhaifallah Alzahrani (2023). Pen-and-paper versus in-person computer-supported L2 collaborative writing: a multimodal (inter)action analysis
Badryah Almesfer (2023). Saudi PhD Sojourners’ Construction of Identities on Twitter: An Exploratory Study in the United Kingdom
I am currently supervising:
Gemma Lockey: Assessing sense of connectedness in a Postgraduate Distance Learning programme for Medical Educators
Pattaramas Jantasin: A Social Semiotic Study of Thai EFL University Students’ Multimodal Composing
Szu-Han (Mike) Ke: Multimodal Composition of Teacher-provided Corrective Feedback in Taiwanese Adult EFL Lessons via Videoconferencing
Wala Almijiwl: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Virtual Exchange through cultural activities on the ENACT web app: A Social Semiotics Approach
For PhD candidates:
I only consider exceptional applications closely related to my research area: online multimodal language learner interactions or online language teaching both specifically in the context of videoconferencing or intercultural virtual exchange.
I welcome proposals on the following:
research topics: Social presence; Intercultural Virtual Exchange; Translanguaging; Topic management; Digital/multimodal literacies; Teacher education/teaching skills; Intersubjectivity; Engagement; Interpersonal relations
research methods: Social Semiotics; Multimodal Interaction Analysis; Ethnography; Interactional Sociolinguistics; Social Network Analysis
I will also consider applications related to the ENACT project: Communities, Languages, and Activities App.
Please send me your IELTS scores and your academic transcripts with your proposal.
Please be advised that I check similarity scores for post-graduate proposals using Turnitin. You can find more information about plagiarism on the following links:
1. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/subject-support/informed-learner/plagiarism.php
2. http://www.plagiarism.org/teaching-about-plagiarism
3. http://www.uefap.com/writing/writfram.htm
Also see Activity 10.16 (page198) in Gillet, A., Hammond, A., & Martala, M. (2009). Inside track to successful academic writing. Canada: Pearson Education.
I teach on the MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL degree.
I am the module leader for:
ALC8022 Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)
ALC8038 Teaching Languages Online
ALC8036 Materials Design and Evaluation in TESOL
ECL1001 Global and Cultural Awareness
I contribute to lectures in ALC8020 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics.
A core component in ALC8022 is a curriculum-embedded Virtual Exchange which offers experiential practice in the virtual exchange method. https://microsites.ncl.ac.uk/casestudies/2019/08/15/virtual-exchange-for-internationalisation/
ALC8038 offers both micro-teaching opportunities in class and teaching practice with various groups of real learners, which provide the basis for an assessed reflective log.
I lead a Newcastle University Global Education and Community Fund titled: Collaborative intercultural encounters for global educational experiences. This project aims to enable present-in-person intercultural encounters across the school in order to (a) facilitate dialogue and collaboration among home and international students across different disciplines for global educational experiences, (b) foster intercultural and multilingual awareness, collaboration and team work, and thus employability skills, (c) develop awareness of multiple worldviews and ways of life, (d) support understandings of global citizenship, reflexivity, and social responsibility. To achieve these aims, we will organise a series of collaborative, project-based activities throughout the 2022-23 academic year, which will be co-designed and co-run with our student representatives and post-graduate demonstrators. We will develop materials and resources as well as evaluation and certification tools. The sessions are now offered as a zero-credit module for all students in ECLS: ECL1001 Global and Cultural Awareness
Newcastle University Student Union The Education Awards nominations:
- Outstanding Contribution to Teaching – HASS Faculty (2019)
- Outstanding Contribution to Academic Support (2021)
- Research Supervisor of the Year (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
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Articles
- Schneider S, Satar M, Lin M, Lopez E. Professional intercultural communicative competence in action. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 2024, epub ahead of print.
- Satar M, Aranha S, Cavalari SMS, Almijiwl W. Low proficiency level learners' translingual and transmodal practices in teletandem: challenging the separation of languages principle. System 2024, 120, 103187.
- Wigham CR, Satar M. Adapting and Extending Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis to investigate synchronous multimodal online language teaching. Multimodal Communication 2024, ePub ahead of Print.
- Seedhouse P, Satar M. The Rashomon Effect: Which features of a speaker’s talk do listeners notice?. Classroom Discourse 2023, 14(1), 1-23.
- Tasdemir S, Lopez E, Satar M, Riches NG. Teachers’ Perceptions of Machine Translation as a Pedagogical Tool. JALT-CALL 2023, 19(1), 92-112.
- Satar M, Hauck M, Bilki Z. Multimodal representation in virtual exchange: a social semiotic approach to critical digital literacy. Language Learning & Technology 2023, 27(2), 72-96.
- Bilki Z, Satar M, Sak M. Critical Digital Literacy in Virtual Exchange for ELT Teacher Education: an interpretivist methodology. ReCALL 2023, 35(1), 58-73.
- Kharrufa A, Satar M, Bone Dodds C, Seedhouse P. Supporting Non-Expert Users in Authoring Tasks for Learning Language and Culture: Evaluation Study. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching 2022, 12(1), 1-22.
- Alami NH, Albuquerque J, Ashton LS, Elwood JA, Ewoodzie K, Hauck M, Karam J, Klimanova L, Nasr R, Satar M. Marginalization and Underrepresentation in Virtual Exchange: Reasons and Remedies. Journal of International Students 2022, 12(S3), 57-76.
- Almijiwl WF, Satar M. Emergency Remote Teaching During COVID-19: Saudi University Teachers' Perceptions of EFL Classroom Interaction in Synchronous Online Lessons. Bogazici University Journal of Education 2022, 39(Special Issue), 39-67.
- Seedhouse P, Satar M. Which specific features of candidate talk do examiners orient to when taking scoring decisions?. IELTS Research Reports Online Series 2021, 21(5), 1-58.
- Ganassin S, Satar M, Regan A. Virtual exchange for internationalisation at home in China: staff perspectives. Journal of Virtual Exchange 2021, 4(SI-IVEC2020), 95-116.
- Wigham CR, Satar M. Multimodal (inter)action analysis of task instructions in language teaching via videoconferencing: A case study. ReCALL 2021, 33(3), 195-213.
- Satar M. L1 for social presence in videoconferencing: A social semiotic account. Language Learning and Technology 2020, 24(1), 129-153.
- Yin Q, Satar M. English as a foreign language learner interactions with chatbots: Negotiation for meaning. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(2), 390-410.
- Akayoglu S, Satar HM, Dikilitas K, Cirit NC, Korkmazgil S. Digital literacy practices of Turkish pre-service EFL teachers. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2020, 36(1), 85-97.
- Satar M, Wigham CR. Delivering task instructions in multimodal synchronous online language teaching. Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d'information et de communication (Alsic) 2020, 23.
- Satar HM, Akcan S. Pre-service EFL Teachers' Online Participation, Interaction and Social Presence. Language Learning and Technology 2018, 22(1), 157-183.
- Satar HM, Wigham CR. Multimodal instruction-giving practices in webconferencing-supported language teaching. System 2017, 70, 63-80.
- Chang C, Kelly JC, Satar HM, Strobl C. Electronic feedback on second language writing: A retrospective and prospective essay on multimodality. Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 405-428.
- Satar HM. Meaning-making in Online Language Learner Interactions via Desktop Videoconferencing. ReCALL, The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2016, 28(3), 305-325.
- Satar HM. Sustaining multimodal language learner interactions online. CALICO Journal 2015, 32(3), 480-507.
- Satar HM, Akcan S. Pre-Service Language Teachers’ Reflections on the Implementation of a Blended-Learning Environment. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 2014, 5(3), 42-61.
- Satar HM. Multimodal Language Learner Interactions via Desktop Videoconferencing within a Framework of Social Presence: Gaze. ReCALL: The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2013, 25(1), 122-142.
- Satar HM, Özdener N. The Effects of Synchronous CMC on Speaking Proficiency and Anxiety: Text vs. Voice Chat. The Modern Language Journal 2008, 92(4), 595-613.
- Özdener N, Satar HM. Computer-Mediated Communication in Foreign Language Education: Use of Target Language and Learner Perceptions. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2008, 9(2), 9.
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Authored Book
- Satar M, Wigham CR. Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis. Routledge, 2023.
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Book Chapters
- Satar M. Social Presence in Multimodal Virtual Exchange and Online Teaching. In: Regine Hampel, Ursula Stickler, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Learning and Technology. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
- Satar M. Semiotic approaches in CALL. In: Dara Tafazoli and Lee McCallum; Section editors: Luidmila Klimanova and Lara Lomicka, ed. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Springer, 2024. In Press.
- Satar M. Multimodal Computer Mediated Communication. In: General Editor Carol A. Chapelle, section editor Jarret Geenen, ed. The Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley, 2024. In Press.
- Satar M, Almijiwl W. Multiliteracies pedagogy for language teacher training: multimodal writing, virtual exchange, and semiotic awareness. In: Carolyn Blume, ed. Approaching Multiliteracies: Digitally-Mediated Second Language Teacher Education. Routledge, 2024. In Press.
- Bilki Z, Satar M. An Intercultural Virtual Exchange Experience: Pre-service ELT teachers’ reflection on their involvement in collaborative and multicultural communication . In: Sedat Akayoglu; Babürhan Üzüm; Bedrettin Yazan, ed. Telecollaboration in Language Teacher Education. Bloomsbury, 2024. In Press.
- Hauck M, Satar M, Kurek M. Where multimodal literacy meets online language learner autonomy: “Digital resources give us wings”. In: Carolin Fuchs, Mirjam Hauck and Melinda Dooly, ed. Language Education in Digital Spaces: Perspectives on Autonomy and Interaction. Cham: Springer, 2021, pp.85-111.
- Dodds CB, Whelan A, Kharrufa A, Satar M. Virtual exchange facilitated by interactive, digital, cultural artefacts: communities, languages, and activities app (ENACT). In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.101-112.
- Satar M. Speaking with Machines: Interaction with Bots for language teaching and learning. In: Beaven T; Rosell-Aguila F, ed. Innovative language pedagogy report. Voillans, France: https://research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.133-138.
- Satar M. Introducing virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.1-13.
- Satar M, Hauck M. Exploring Digital Equity in Online Learning Communities (Virtual Exchange). In: Kelly D; de Medeiros A, ed. Language Debates : Theory and Reality in Language Learning, Teaching and Research. London: John Murray Press, 2021, pp.272-292.
- Hauck M, Satar HM. Learning and Teaching Languages in Technology-Mediated Contexts: The Relevance of Social Presence, Co-Presence, Participatory Literacy and Multimodal Competence. In: Kern R; Develotte C, ed. Screens and Scenes: Online Multimodal Communication and Intercultural Encounters : Theoretical and Educational Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.133-157.
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Edited Book
- Satar M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021.
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Editorials
- Cappellini M, Satar M, Combe C. Editorial. Journal of Virtual Exchange 2020, 3(SI), 1-4.
- Strobl C, Satar HM. Spoilt for choice: A plethora of modes for electronic feedback on second language writing. Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 393-403.
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Online Publications
- Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. The ENACT web app: Learning language through culture. Leeds: Babel Magazine Limited, 2024. Available at: https://babelzine.co.uk/babel-number-35-may-2021/.
- Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. Cultural tasks for ESOL teaching and learning: The ENACT web app. ESOL SIG, 2024. Available at: https://iateflesolsig.wordpress.com/our-newsletter/.
- Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. Cultural Tasks for Language Learning and Teaching: The ENACT App. FLTMAG (IALLT), 2022. Available at: https://fltmag.com/cultural-tasks-enact/.
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Report
- Ganassin S, Satar M, Thinh NP, Regan A. Designing a collaborative and virtual exchange-embedded virtual summer school. University of Groningen Press, 2023. Journal of Virtual Exchange.
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Review
- Satar HM. New Technologies and Language Learning. TESOL Quarterly 2018, 52(1), 236-238.