Curriculum vitae: Ralph Jaeckel 2016
RALPH JAECKEL
3906 Tuller Ave.
Culver City, CA 90230
Mobile: (310) 430-6094. Work: (310) 206-1388
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Turkish. University of California, Los Angeles, 1980.
Dissertation: Dukaginzade Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey's "King and Beggar": A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Allegorical-Mystical Love Poem (Mesnevi). Introduction, Text in Transcription (Text editionbased on 8 manuscripts and one printed edition), and Translation [Volumes I and II]. Dissertation Abstracts International, 41, 257A. [University Microfilms International, No. 8015990]
M.A. Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Turkish. University of California, Los Angeles, 1969.
B.A. Russian. Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., 1955.
EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CA.:
1993-1995. Member, Committee on Language Learning Framework for Turkish. American Association of Teachers of Turkish [AATT].
1993-97. **** Senior Lecturer Emeritus. On recall, teaching Elementary Turkish, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures [NELC].
1993- Retired from teaching.
1991- 1993. Board Member, AATT.
1991 [Summer]. Lecturer. Elementary Turkish, Summer Consortium in Near Eastern Studies, NELC.
1990- 1992. Member, AATT Proficiency Guidelines Working Committee.
1986-1993. Lecturer. Elementary and Advanced Turkish, Elementary Ottoman,NELC.
1985 [Summer]. Visiting Lecturer. Elementary Turkish, Summer Consortium in Near Eastern Studies, NELC.
1984-1986. Visiting Lecturer. Elementary and Advanced Turkish, Elementary Ottoman, NELC.
1982-1984. Visiting Assistant Professor. Elementary and Advanced Turkish, Elementary Ottoman, NELC.
1980-1982. Visiting Lecturer, Elementary and Advanced Turkish, Elementary Ottoman, NELC.
1979-1980. Lecturer, Ottoman Turkish and Chagatay, NELC.
1977-1979. Editor and Translator, textbook project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Islam among the Turks of Central Asia: Texts from the Eleventh to the Nineteenth Centuries, A. J. E. Bodrogligeti, principal investigator, NELC.
1976-1977. Assistant Librarian engaged in cataloging Ottoman books, University Research Library.
1974-1976. Teaching Assistant, Elementary and Intermediate Turkish, Elementary Ottoman, NELC.
1972-1973. Research Assistant to A. J. E. Bodrogligeti, Gustave E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, editing and translating of Middle Turkic texts.
JOINT PUBLICATIONS RESEARCH SERVICE [JPRS], SAN FRANCISCO, CA.
1969-1971 [Part-time]. Translator of Turkish, scanner and selector of Turkish language materials to be translated.
****
ROBERT COLLEGE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY:
1965 [Summer]. Instructor in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Peace Corps volunteers. Preparation of handouts on English-Turkish contrastive grammar.
1963-1964. Textbook writer on the staff of the Ford Foundation sponsored project that produced the text series: Spoken English for Turks [See below under "Publications"].
1958-1965. Instructor, intensive English, for Turkish students.**** Preparatory English Language Division.
TÜRK-AMERİKAN ÜNİVERSİTELER DERNEĞİ, THE BI-NATIONAL CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY, ISTANBUL, TURKEY
1958-1959. Instructor, intensive English, for Turkish government officials headed for the U.S.
TRANS-WORLD LANGUAGE SERVICE, 1720 EYE STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C.
1955-1957. Editor of English translations, occasional translator of Russian.
Conference Papers
2002, November 24, 25. Materials for Teaching the Structure of the Long, Complex Turkish Sentence. Mastery of the long complex Turkish sentence is essential for all advanced students of Turkish, especially for those requiring access to formal texts such as current diplomatic correspondence and Ottoman documents. This paper indicates some ways in which the complex Turkish sentence has been taught, how students have grappled with such sentences, what sources have been available for instruction, and what lessons might be learned from how the complex sentence has been approached in teaching other languages similar in structure to Turkish. To encourage comments and discussion from roundtable participants on their own teaching experience, some handouts outlining possible approaches were distributed.Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. American Teachers of Turkic Languages Roundtable: What Are We Using?: A Discussion of Current Turkish Teaching Materials.
****
2001, November 18. The Graphic Novel in the Turkish-as-a-Foreign-Language [TFL] Classroom and Beyond. This was a description of a project to adapt a particular Turkish graphic novel for the teaching of Turkish and, in doing so, to create a model applicable to other languages, especially to those of similar structure.Handouts were distributed to roundtable participants and an expanded text of the talk was E-mailed to certain participants after the roundtable.Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. American Teachers of Turkic Languages Roundtable: Effective Classroom Strategies for Teaching Turkish.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Jaeckel, R., compilation and notes.Teach Yourself to Read Turkish: Decipher the Turkish Linguistic Code. Vocabulary and Grammar Explained in Context. (For students with a basic knowledge of the Turkish case system.) [Forthcoming 2017]
1
Curriculum vitae: Ralph Jaeckel 2016
Faruk Geç’s “A Letter from Germany”, An Interactive Module for Self-Study and Classroom Use.Adapted for students of Turkish by Ralph Jaeckeland Mehmet Süreyya Er. [2010]. Used with the permission of Mr. Geç and made possible with support from the Centerfor International Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago.
1
Curriculum vitae: Ralph Jaeckel 2016
Jaeckel, R. Turkish Grammar Step-by-Step. Vols. I and II. [1997, revision in progress]. This first year Turkish text presents Turkish grammar in easily learned chunks and patterns widely encountered in conversational Turkish and through well-known proverbs. It has been used at UCLA in various versions from 1985. Previous versians, Academic Publishing, UCLA.
Jaeckel, R. & Tanrıöğen, Gülnur [2006]. A Dictionary ofTurkish Verbs: In Context and by Theme.Washington: Washington University Press.
Wise, S., Charles, M., Downing, B., & Jaeckel, R. [1966]. Türkler için konuşulan İngilizce [Spoken English for Turks]. [Vols. 1-5]. Istanbul: Robert College.
Articles
Jaeckel, R. [1996]. Teaching Grammar in Context as Part of an Intensive In-Class Study of a Brief Text. AATT [American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages] Newsletter. No. 18. Fall 1996. This is a revised version of a paper delivered at the Middle East Studies Association workshop entitled Language Learning Framework for Turkish: The Role of Grammar in Teaching, Washington D.C., November 1995.
Jaeckel, R. [1995]. ‘Turkish Culture in the Turkish Language Classrooom’ in Language Learning Framework for Turkish. Interim Report. AATT [American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages] Spring 1996.
Jaeckel, R. [1991]. Proficiency Based Turkish Instruction [PBI] at the University: Objections and Responses. AATT [American Association of Teachers of Turkish] Newsletter. No. 9. Spring 1991, 14-22.
Jaeckel, R. [1989]. A Preliminary Report on a Learner's Dictionary for Turkish. AATT [American Association of Teachers of Turkish] Newsletter. No. 5. Spring 1989, 4-12. An expanded version of a talk delivered at a workshop entitled Guidelines and Standards for the Proficiency-Based Teaching of Turkish, Middle East Studies Association Conference, 1988, Los Angeles, California.
Jaeckel, R. [1985]. Grönbech's Turkish structure: a chapter in the history of comparative linguistics. Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 57, 59-78.
Jaeckel, R. [1981]. Recently discovered notes by Eckmann for his 'Middle Turkic glosses of the Rylands Interlinear Koran Translation'. Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 53, 76-87.
Reviews
Jaeckel, R.[1982]. Review of John R Krueger, trans., Preliminary Studies in Turkic Historical Phonology by Vilhelm Grönbech, Bloomington, Indiana: Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 54, 145-149.
Workshops attended not resulting in a publication
2002, May 17. Considering content-based curriculum construction in a collegiate FL context: A workshop discussion at the UCLA Language Resource Program.
Award
2005 Middle East Studies Association Mentoring Award
1