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, Middle East Technical 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., Balaban, H. Ö. & Alp, İ. E. (in press). Evidentials and source knowledge in Turkish. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development.

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.