ACU Researcher

Dr. Hasibe Kahraman

Lecturer
Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy

Areas of expertise: word reading; sentence reading; morphological processing in monolingual and multilingual contexts; and individual differences in reading; educational assessment.

Email: Hasibe.kahraman@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU North Sydney Campus

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Full)

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1274-9118

Dr. Hasibe Kahraman brings a distinctive interdisciplinary expertise to language education and reading research, combining pedagogical knowledge with cognitive science. Dr. Kahraman holds a BA in English Language Teaching, an MSc in Measurement and Evaluation in Education, and a PhD in English Language Teaching. She completed a second PhD in Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, with a particular focus on word reading, morphological processing in monolingual and multilingual contexts, and individual differences in students' reading profiles. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Kahraman worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University before joining the Australian Catholic University's Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy as a Lecturer in Literacy.

Dr. Kahraman's academic background is complemented by extensive teaching experience across early childhood, secondary, and tertiary levels. Her research spans the cognitive and neural mechanisms of reading, language pedagogy, and educational assessment. She integrates methodologies from psycholinguistics, educational measurement, and cognitive science.

Dr. Kahraman maintains an active research agenda with publications in peer-reviewed journals spanning cognitive science, language teaching, and assessment, including Scientific Studies of Reading, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. Her interdisciplinary expertise supports the development of evidence-based approaches to language education, integrating insights from both classroom practice and scientific research.

She has presented her research at leading conferences in Australia and internationally and has been recognised with several competitive awards and scholarships, including the Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship, the World Bank-University of California Berkeley Research Transparency and Reproducibility Scholarship, and the J. Frank Yates Award for Supporting Diversity and Inclusion in Cognitive Psychology.

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1. Spencer, J., Kahraman, H. & Beyersmann, E. (2025). The bestersell effect: Nuances in positional encoding of morphemes in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02693-7
2. Kahraman, H., Casalis, S., Javourey-Drevet, L., Menut A., de Wit, B., & Beyersmann, E. (2025). Morphological complexity modulates morphological processing: evidence from cross-language embedded stem priming in French English bilinguals. Scientific Studies of Reading, 29(3), 279-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2025.2462826
3. Kahraman, H., Kırkıcı, B., & Beyersmann, E. (2025). Two decades later: Letter transpositions within and across morpheme boundaries in L1 and L2 speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924001020
4. Sulpizio, S., Günther, F., Ferrand, L., Fasoli, F., Westbury, C., Wongupparaj, P., Brysbaert, M., Kinoshita, S., Kahraman H., Tse, C., Badan, L., Ciaccio, L. A., Manouilidou, C., Yap, M. J., Oganyan, M., Alexandre N., Dušica Filipović Đ., Duñabeitia, J., Guerra, E. (2024). Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 3794-3813. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02376-6
5. Kahraman, H. & Beyersmann, E. (2024). Sand, sandpaper, and sandwiches: evidence from a masked compound priming task in L1 and L2 speakers of English. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 30. https:// doi.org/10.5334/joc.350
6. Kahraman, H., de Wit, B., Beyersmann, E. (2024). Cross-Language morphological transfer in similar-script bilinguals. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(3), 1155-1171. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02383-2
7. Spencer, J., H., Beyersmann, E., (2023). Positional encoding of morphemes in visual word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001296
8. Kahraman, H. & Beyersmann, E. (2023). Cross-language influences on morphological processing in bilinguals. In I. Elgort, A. Siyanova, & M. Brysbaert (Eds.), Cross-language Influences in Second Language Acquisition and Processing: Interdisciplinary Insights and Perspectives (Bilingual Processing and Acquisition) (pp. 230-261). Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.10kah
9. Kahraman, H., & Kırkıcı, B. (2021). Letter transpositions and morphemic boundaries in the second language processing of derived words: An exploratory study of individual differences. Applied Psycholinguistics,42(2), 417-446. doi:10.1017/S0142716420000673
10. Kahraman, H., (2019). Reading as a single construct: A process-oriented study. Novitas Royal, 13(2), 207-221.
11. Kahraman, H., & Pipes, A. (2018). Experiences of international language teachers at a Turkish university. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 38, 209-219.
12. Kahraman, H. (2017). Construction of the teaching ability belief scale- extended: a pilot study. ELT Research Journal, 6(1), 45-68.

Projects

1. Taboo language across the globe: A multi-lab study, 2021-2024
2. Cross-Language morphological transfer in similar-script bilinguals, 2020-2024, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (AUD $248,291)
3. Individual Differences in The L1 And L2 Processing of Morphologically Complex Words, 2019 - 2020, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (USD $21,600)
4. The two languages of the bilingual mind: an EEG study into cross-language morphological transfer, 2023-2024, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (AUD $6,500)

Awards

1. Oct 2023
   Best Ph.D. Thesis Award Winner
   Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara
2. July 2023
   Frank Yates Student Award for Supporting Diversity & Inclusion in Cognitive Psychology
   Psychonomic Society, USA
   (USD $1000 cash prize)
3. Nov 2022
   Second-Best Presentation Award
   Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
   (AUD $100 cash prize)
4. June 2010
   Salutatorian Award
   Başkent University, Turkey

Appointments and Affiliations

Appointments

1. Feb 2025 - Present
   Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
2. May 2024 - Feb 2025
   Post-Doctoral Researcher, Macquarie University
3. 2023
   Project Supervisor for Professional and Community Engagement (PACE),
   School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University
4. July 2021 - Feb 2025
   Sessional Teaching Academic, Macquarie University
5. Feb 2021 - April 2022
   Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Macquarie University
6. Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
   Research Officer, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
7. Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
   Visiting Scholar, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
8. Oct 2015 - June 2022
   Research Fellow, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
9. Feb 2014 - July 2016
   Research Assistant and Associate Lecturer, Department of English Language Teaching, İzmir University, Turkey
10. Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
    English Language Instructor, Department of Basic English, Hacettepe University, Turkey
11. Sep 2011 - Dec 2012
    English Language Teacher, Ankara University Development Foundation Schools, Turkey
12. Sep 2010 - Sep 2012
    Project Instructor,
    Ankara University, Hacettepe University, and TÜBİTAK, Turkey
13. Aug 2010 - Sep 2012
    English Language Teacher

Affiliations & Academic Service

1. 2021 - 2025
   Associate Supervisor, Department of Cognitive Science, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University
2. 2021 - 2022
   Communications Committee Member, Macquarie Centre for Reading
   PhD Student Committee Member, Reading Centre, Macquarie University
3. 2019 - Present
   Ad-hoc Reviewerfor peer-reviewed journals and conferences

International journal review panels

2019-Present

Ad-hoc reviewer

Peer review for International Symposium on Bilingualism 15; Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Advances in Cognitive Psychology; Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language); Journal of Second and Multiple Language Acquisition (JSMLA); Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience; Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Public engagement

1. April 2024
   "Compound words could hold a key to language learning"
   Featured on the Macquarie University News Hub
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2. October 2023
   "Beynin kelime depolama biçimiyle ilgili araştırma, dil öğrenmeye yeni bakış açısı katacak"
   (Research into the way the brain stores words provides new insights into language learning)
   Interviewed on SBS Turkish Podcast
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