缅北禁地

Dr Müge Satar

I am  in Applied Linguistics at 缅北禁地, UK and . I 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 (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 缅北禁地 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 (缅北禁地 Upon Tyne) in collaboration with Tyne and Wear museums.

I am a General Council member of UNICollaboration and the co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange  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 (2021), a co-authored manuscript (2023), and a co-edited volume Cultural Tasks For Digital Language Learning (forthcoming).

I joined the Applied Linguistics and Communication team at 缅北禁地 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
• March 2025, International Meeting on Foreign Language Learning in Tandem (IMFLIT) conference, Mexico

Chair of the host, 14-16 September 2020

HaSS Faculty Interim Dean for Global (August 2023 - January 2024 and February 2025 - February 2026)

Director for Global at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. (2018-2020 co-director, 2020-2025)

Chair of Board of Studies for our degree programmes at our section, Applied Linguistics and Communication (2018-2019).

Co-editor of  and  (Annual Review of Education, Communication, and Language Sciences)

Co-editor of a special issue of Writing & Pedagogy, titled 

Executive Board member (2018-2022), Second publications officer (2018-2022), and General Council member (2022-ongoing) of 

Secretary for the Computer Mediated Communication Special Interest Group () for (2014-2018)

Member of ,  and 

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:

Current research projects

British Academy Award, Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners 2025 Programme. (PI) April, 2025, 12 months. £9,751 

ESRC IAA Strategic Fund. Project title: Taking the ‘Around the World Club (ATWC) to the World. (PI) with Paul Seedhouse and Ahmed Kharrufa. March 2025-August 2026, £14,945.

British Council Going Global Partnerships TNE Exploratory Grant. Project title: Joint postgraduate programme development between Turkey and the UK: removing barriers and sharing good practice. (PI) with Zeynep Bilki (Co-I), TED University. 2025-2026, £25,000.

British Council Going Global Partnerships TNE Exploratory Grant. Project title: TNE Conference: Opportunities and Challenges in Brazil. (PI) with Alexandre Anselmo Guilherme. PUCRS. 2025-2026, £ 25,000.

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 

Completed research projects

Communities, Languages, and Activities App (ENACT), a €270,000 Erasmus Key Action 2 Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education, (PI).  (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 

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) 

An examination of experienced online language teachers' multimodal instruction-giving practices, funded by 缅北禁地, 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 (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)

缅北禁地, 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,  (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

Szu-Han (Mike) Ke (2025). Multimodal Composition of Teacher-provided Corrective Feedback in Taiwanese Adult EFL Lessons via Videoconferencing.

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 (viva passed with minor corrections)

Wala Almijiwl: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Virtual Exchange through cultural activities on the ENACT web app: A Social Semiotics Approach

Ashlyn Wong: Interculturality, cultures, and communities through the lenses of digital nomads: a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis  

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 .

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 . You can find more information about plagiarism on the following links: 

1. /library/subject-support/informed-learner/plagiarism.php

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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. 

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 缅北禁地 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

缅北禁地 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)

- Education Awards Nomination (2023) (PGT supervision)

• Articles

  • Almijiwl W, Satar M. . Language Learning and Technology 2026, 30(1), 1–21.
  • Jose L, Satar M. . Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2026, 3, 81-98.
  • Jantasin P, Satar M. . Technology in Language Teaching & Learning 2025, 7(3), 102566.
  • Satar M, Çimenli Olcars B. . Classroom Discourse 2025, 16(3), 361-389.
  • Satar M, Seedhouse S, Kharrufa A, Ganassin S, Dooly M, Buitrago Peña J, Öztekin E, Akcan S, Haznedar B. . ReCALL 2025, 37(2), 191-214.
  • Hauck M, Biondo Salomão AC, Satar M, Primo G. . AILA Review 2025, 38(2), 262–293.
  • Schneider S, Satar M, Lin M, Lopez E. . Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching 2024, epub ahead of print.
  • Satar M, Aranha S, Cavalari SMS, Almijiwl W. . System 2024, 120, 103187.
  • Wigham CR, Satar M. . Multimodal Communication 2024, 13(3), 415-426.
  • Seedhouse P, Satar M. . Classroom Discourse 2023, 14(1), 1-23.
  • Tasdemir S, Lopez E, Satar M, Riches NG. . JALT-CALL 2023, 19(1), 92-112.
  • Satar M, Hauck M, Bilki Z. . Language Learning & Technology 2023, 27(2), 72-96.
  • Bilki Z, Satar M, Sak M. . ReCALL 2023, 35(1), 58-73.
  • Kharrufa A, Satar M, Bone Dodds C, Seedhouse P. . 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. . Journal of International Students 2022, 12(S3), 57-76.
  • Almijiwl WF, Satar M. . Bogazici University Journal of Education 2022, 39(Special Issue), 39-67.
  • Seedhouse P, Satar M. . IELTS Research Reports Online Series 2021, 21(5), 1-58.
  • Ganassin S, Satar M, Regan A. . Journal of Virtual Exchange 2021, 4(SI-IVEC2020), 95-116.
  • Wigham CR, Satar M. . ReCALL 2021, 33(3), 195-213.
  • Satar M. . Language Learning and Technology 2020, 24(1), 129-153.
  • Yin Q, Satar M. . International Online Journal of Education and Teaching (IOJET) 2020, 7(2), 390-410.
  • Akayoglu S, Satar HM, Dikilitas K, Cirit NC, Korkmazgil S. . Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 2020, 36(1), 85-97.
  • Satar M, Wigham CR. . Apprentissage des langues et systèmes d'information et de communication (Alsic) 2020, 23.
  • Satar HM, Akcan S. . Language Learning and Technology 2018, 22(1), 157-183.
  • Satar HM, Wigham CR. . System 2017, 70, 63-80.
  • Chang C, Kelly JC, Satar HM, Strobl C. . Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 405-428.
  • Satar HM. . ReCALL, The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2016, 28(3), 305-325.
  • Satar HM. . CALICO Journal 2015, 32(3), 480-507.
  • Satar HM, Akcan S. . Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry 2014, 5(3), 42-61.
  • Satar HM. . ReCALL: The Journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 2013, 25(1), 122-142.
  • Satar HM, Özdener N. . The Modern Language Journal 2008, 92(4), 595-613.
  • Özdener N, Satar HM. . Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2008, 9(2), 9.

• Authored Book

  • Satar M, Wigham CR. . Routledge, 2023.

• Book Chapters

  • Satar M, Ren S, Whelan A, Seedhouse P. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.115-171. In Press.
  • Satar M. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.299-321. In Press.
  • Satar M. . In: General Editor Carol A. Chapelle, section editor Jarret Geenen, ed. The Encyclopaedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley, 2026, pp.epub ahead of print.
  • Satar M. . In: Farr F; Murray L, ed. Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology. London: Routledge, 2026. In Press.
  • Seedhouse P, Satar M. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.341-354. In Press.
  • Ganassin S, Satar M. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.13-36. In Press.
  • Satar M, Seedhouse P. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.355-362. In Press.
  • Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Satar M, Seedhouse P. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.59-81. In Press.
  • Seedhouse P, Satar M. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.3-12. In Press.
  • Bilki Z, Satar M. . In: Sedat Akayoglu, Bedrettin Yazan and Baburhan Uzum, ed. Telecollaboration in Language Teacher Education. Bloomsbury, 2026.
  • Satar M, Whelan A, Kharrufa A, Seedhouse P. . In: M. Satar; P. Seedhouse, ed. Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, pp.175-199. In Press.
  • Satar M. . In: McCallum, L; Tafazoli D. Section editors: Luidmila Klimanova and Lara Lomicka, ed. The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, pp.1-7.
  • Satar M, Almijiwl W. . In: Carolyn Blume, ed. Approaching Multiliteracies: Digitally Mediated Second Language Teacher Education. Routledge, 2025.
  • Satar M. . In: Regine Hampel, Ursula Stickler, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Learning and Technology. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
  • Hauck M, Satar M, Kurek M. . 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. . In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.101-112.
  • Satar M. . In: Beaven T; Rosell-Aguila F, ed. Innovative language pedagogy report. Voillans, France: https://research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.133-138.
  • Satar M. . In: Satar, M, ed. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021, pp.1-13.
  • Satar M, Hauck M. . 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. . 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.

• Edited Books

  • Satar M, Seedhouse P, ed. . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. In Press.
  • Satar M, ed. . Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2021.

• Editorials

  • Cappellini M, Satar M, Combe C. . Journal of Virtual Exchange 2020, 3(SI), 1-4.
  • Strobl C, Satar HM. . Writing & Pedagogy 2017, 9(3), 393-403.

• Online Publications

  • Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. . ESOL SIG, 2024. Available at: .
  • Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. . Auburn, Alabama: International Association for Language Learning Technology, 2022. Available at: .
  • Satar M, Seedhouse P, Kharrufa A, Bone Dodds C, Ganassin S, Whelan A. . Leeds: Babel Magazine Limited, 2021. Available at: .

• Report

  • Ganassin S, Satar M, Thinh NP, Regan A. . University of Groningen Press, 2023. Journal of Virtual Exchange.

• Review

  • Satar HM. . TESOL Quarterly 2018, 52(1), 236-238.