Necmi Akşit
Tijen Akşit
New staff joining the team as of September 2026:
Ufuk Balaman, Full Professor, Incoming Director of the MA-TEFL program
Mehmet Sak, Assistant Professor
THE INCOMING MA-TEFL TEAM (as of September 2026)
published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism; Journal of Psycholinguistic Research; Second Language Research; Studies in Second Language Acquisition; Language Teaching; Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development; Innovation In Language Learning and Teaching; Language Teaching Research; Foreign Language Annals; European Journal of Education; 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
(this list only includes the incoming team’s papers published in SSCI-indexed journals before June, 2026).
holds editorial seats in TESOL Quarterly; SYSTEM; Linguistics & Education.
published books and chapters in Springer, Routledge, Palgrave.
led projects funded by European Union, TÜBİTAK; DFG (Germany), DFF (Denmark), British Council.
received research awards from Bilim Akademisi (BAGEP), IAPLL, International CALL, HacettepeUniversity
supervised postgraduate theses of more than 30 MA & PhD students.
is well-networked with Applied Linguistics, ELT, SLA, TEFL, and LTE researchers worldwide.
