Dr. Feyza Altinkamis

Faculty staff and postdoctoral researchers

Biography

N. Feyza Altinkamis is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent Universiy, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication, Turkish section. She has been teaching at Ghent University since 2011. In addition, she is a scientific collaborator in the project “A Digital Collaborative Platform for Minority Language Education in Brussels” run by Prof.Dr. Rik Vosters and Dr. Jian Wei at VUB. Her research interests are mainly early childhood bilingualism (Turkish-Dutch children), language practices in bilingual families, child-directed speech and family language policy. She is also interested in supporting projects related to child and family bilingual literacy activities organized for public.

Selected publications

Altinkamis, F. (2022). The effect of family composition on family language policy of Turkish heritage speakers in Flanders/Belgium. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2022.2036745
D’haeseleer, E., Daelman, J., Altinkamis, F., Smet, A.-S., Ryckaert, E. & Van Lierde, K. (2021). Language development in Turkish-Dutch bilingual children. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. https://doi.org/10.1159/000512443 .
Simon, E., D’haeseleer, E., Altinkamis, F., & Plevoets, K. (2020). Dutch speech intelligibility in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children in Flanders. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9(1–2), 215–235. doi.org/10.1075/dujal.19025.sim .
Yagmur, K. & Altinkamis, F. (2020). Turkish. Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.11697635 .
Daelman, J., Van Lierde, K., Simon, E., Baudonck, N., Altinkamis, F., Akbari, M. & D’haeseleer, E. (2020). Dynamisch onderzoek van narratieven in typisch ontwikkelende Turks-Nederlandse kinderen in Vlaanderen : een pilootonderzoek. LOGOPEDIE (HERENTALS), 2020(juli-augustus), 100–115.
Altinkamis, F. & Özcan, F. H. (2020). How does family socioeconomic status affect home and mainstream language? Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online. https://doi.org/10.1515/lme.11697559 .
Altinkamis, F. & Simon, E. (2020). The effect of family background and language exposure on the development of Turkish and Dutch in bilingual children in Flanders. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi.org/10.1177/1367006920909889.