Ayhan Aksu Koç, Ph.D.
Professor
Boğaziçi University / Department of Psychology
Bebek, 34342 İstanbul, Turkey.
Ph: +90 212 359 65 88 | Fax: +90 212 287 24 72
e-mail: koc@boun.edu.tr
Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
- MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1976
- BA, Boğaziçi University, 1971
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Psychology
- Life Span Developmental Psychology I & II
- Language Acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
- Advanced Developmental Psychology
- Theories in Psychology I & II
- Modern Points of View in Psychology
- Language and Culture
Research Interests
- Language acquisition and cognitive development (acquisition of Turkish, theory of mind)
- Narrative abilities in children and adults
- Literacy development
- Social, educational, and contextual influences on language acquisition
Recent Publications
Aksu-Koç, A., Erguvanli-Taylan, E., Özsoy, A. Sumru, & Küntay, A. (1998). (Eds.). Perspectives on Language Acquisition. Selected Papers from the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Bogaziçi University Press.
Aksu-Koç, A. (1996). Frames of mind through narrative discourse. In D. I. Slobin, J. Gerhardt, A., Kyratsiz, & J. Guo (Eds.), Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp, pp. 309-328. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Aksu-Koç, A. (1994). Development of linguistic forms: Turkish. In R. Berman and D. Slobin (Eds.), Relating Events in Narrative: A crosslinguistic developmental study. Erlbaum.
Aksu-Koç, A. (1988). The Acquisition of Aspect and Modality. Cambridge University Press.