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, computer assisted language learning, task-based language teaching, and language teacher education among other relevant fields of inquiry.
He previously worked at the Centre de linguistique appliquée, Université de Neuchâtel as a visiting postdoctoral researcher, at Kırıkkale University as an English language instructor, and Hacettepe University and TED University as an associate professor. He founded and directed research centers and groups, coordinated and participated in international research projects, received BAGEP2025 award, and supervised MA and PhD theses. He current holds editorial board seats in SYSTEM and Linguistics & Education and acts as a board member of ICOP-L2 and general council member of UNICollaboration.
Dr. Balaman extensively published in applied linguistics and language/teacher education journals including Journal of Pragmatics; English for Academic Purposes; International Journal of Applied Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Learning, Culture and Social Interaction; European Journal of Teacher Education; Language and Intercultural Communication; Linguistics and Education; Health Communication; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Language Assessment Quarterly; ReCALL; Applied Linguistics Review; SYSTEM; TESOL Quarterly; Pragmatics; Research on Language and Social Interaction; Text & Talk; Language Learning & Technology. He also edited the recent volume on Video-Mediated L2 Interaction: Conversation Analytic Research and authored the monograph, Conversation Analytic Language Teacher Education in Digital Spaces.