Category: News
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MA-TEFL Faculty-Student Gathering: Meet the New Team Event
The MA-TEFL faculty and students were gathered in a beginning-of-the-semester event on the 17th of September, 2026. Following the program director’s plenary on the new program components and expectancies from the students. Strongly emphasizing the research-oriented structure of the MA-TEFL program, each faculty member featured the newly established research clusters in the department. With the…
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EVENT: Meet the New MA-TEFL Team
We are organizing the “Meet the New Team” event on the 17th of September, 16:30 at Room, 160, G-Building to introduce the structural and academic changes in the department and the MA in TEFL program. The event will also cover the orientation for the new cohort students. All MA-TEFL students and alumni, and colleagues in…
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Mehmet Sak joins the MA-TEFL program as an Assistant Professor
As of 1st of September 2026, Dr. Mehmet Sak has joined the Faculty of Education and the MA-TEFL Program as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Sak’s research draws on the psychology of language learners, teachers, and teacher educators with a particular focus on their wellbeing, motivation, and emotions from complexity and ecological perspectives. His articles have…
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Ufuk Balaman joins the MA-TEFL program as a Full Professor and the Head of Department
As of 1st of September 2026, Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman has joined the Faculty of Education and the MA-TEFL Program. Dr. Balaman will act as the program director. Balaman’s research draws on multimodal Conversation Analysis for L2 learning, teaching, and teacher education mainly in digital spaces and aims to contribute to the fields of multimodal Conversation Analysis,…
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Demet Sertdemir Kabakçı defends her thesis in the MA-TEFL Program
Sertdemir Kabakçı’s thesis explores teachers’ perceptions and experiences of LLM use in EFL writing instruction. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, Sertdemir Kabakçı presented EFL instructors’ familiarity with and use of LLMs, as well as their perceptions and experiences in writing instruction, combining an online questionnaire with follow-up semi-structured interviews. The main findings include generally…
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Gizem Açıkkan defends her thesis in the MA-TEFL Program.
Açıkkan’s thesis examines middle school EFL teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback in form-focused instruction. Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, Açıkkan presented a two-phase analysis of teachers’ beliefs and their origins, combining a Likert-scale questionnaire with follow-up interviews. Findings reveal generally positive but conditional beliefs, with teaching experience as their dominant source. The thesis…