Selcen Erten Johansson
Corpus linguistics, text varieties (registers), media discourse analysis, teaching Turkish and English as a foreign language.
Selcen Erten Johansson is a Turkish linguist. After completing her schooling in Türkiye, Latvia, and Sweden, where she studied languages and conducted linguistic analyses, she worked and studied at Michigan State University as a Fulbright scholar. In December 2019, she earned her Master's degree in Linguistics from Mersin University, Türkiye. During her Master's studies, she focused on analyzing languages in digital contexts, specializing in applying digital methods to Turkish grammar. This specialization led her to the Digital Language Studies program at the University of Turku in August 2021. She investigates web text varieties with a focus on Turkish, by combining corpus linguistics with media discourse analysis at the University of Turku.
Currently, Selcen Erten Johansson is applying the study of Turkish web registers to recent political events featured in Turkish media. Specifically, she analyzes how Finland's NATO membership process is portrayed in Turkish media through news reports, newspaper columns, and internet forums.
This research is supported by a grant from the Eino Jutikkala Fund of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters for the period 2024–2026.
Turkish as a foreign language at Turun Työväenopisto, September 2025 – April 2026 (48 hours).
Corpus Linguistics and Language Technology course at the University of Turku, September 2024 (8 hours)
Digital Interaction course at the University of Turku, March 2024 (2 hours)
Turkish as a foreign language at Turun Työväenopisto, September 2023 – April 2024 (48 hours)
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October – December 2023 (12 hours)
Automatic Text Processing course at the University of Turku, October – December 2022 (12 hours)
General English and English Academic Writing at Toros University, Türkiye, September 2016 – June 2020.
Turkish as a foreign language at Michigan State University, the USA, August 2015 – May 2016.
- Exploring Register Variation in Turkish Web Corpus (2023) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities Erten Selcen
(A4 Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa) - Learning Finnish as a foreign language: Can it be easier than you think? (2023)
- Student Life at the University of Turku
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Λanguages with a Дifferent AlΦabet * – It’s not all Greek to me anymore (2023)
- Student Life at the University of Turku
(O2 Muu julkaisu ) - Corpus profiles of Turkish mental verbs with reference to Pattern Grammar and Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (2019) Erten Selcen
(G2 Pro gradu, diplomityö, YAMK-opinnäytetyö)



