Ralph Jaeckel - Near Eastern Languages & Cultures

Education

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles (1980)
MA, University of California, Los Angeles (1969)
BA, Haverford College (1955)

Turkish Language and Literature; Classical Turkic Languages and Literatures (Ottoman and Chagatay)
Development of instructional materials for teaching Turkish language and culture
Development of materials for assessing proficiency in the Turkish language
Turkish lexicography

“The Graphic Novel in the Turkish-as-a-Foreign Language [TFL] Classroom and Beyond: An Experiment in Adapting and Using a Turkish Graphic Novel As a Language Teaching Tool,” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Bulletin 29-30. (Spring and Fall 2003)
“Teaching Grammar in Context as Part of an Intensive In-Class Study of a Brief Text,” American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages Newsletter 18 (Fall 1996)
“Grönbech’s Turkish Structure: A Chapter in the history of comparative Linguistics,” Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 57, 59-78. (1985)
“Recently discovered notes by Eckmann for his ‘Middle Turkic glosses of the Rylands Interlinear Koran Translation’”. Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 53. 76-87. (1981)

Dukaginzade Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s “King and Beggar”: A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Allegorical-Mystical Love Poem (Mesnevi). Introduction, Text in Transcription (Text edition based on 8 manuscripts and one printed edition), and Translation [Volumes I and II]., ProQuest® Dissertation and Thesis Database, 41, 257A. [University Microfilms International, No. 8015990]