{"id":166,"date":"2026-09-11T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:25:32","slug":"event-meet-the-new-ma-tefl-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Meet the New MA-TEFL Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are organizing the &#8220;Meet the New Team\u201d 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 and beyond Bilkent University are invited. The event schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Venue: G-160<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>17th of September, 2026, 16:30 &#8211; 17:30<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Welcome<\/strong><br><strong>Introduction to the New MA-TEFL Structure and the New Team<\/strong><br><strong>Q &amp; A<\/strong><br>Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman<\/td><td>16.30 &#8211; 16:35<br>16:35 &#8211; 16:45<br>16:45 &#8211; 16:50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Inaugural Address 1: Psychology in Language Education<\/strong><br>Assist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sak<\/td><td>16:50 &#8211; 17:00<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Inaugural Address 2: Language Processing and Learning<\/strong><br>Assist. Prof. Dr. Duygu F. \u015eafak<\/td><td>17:00 &#8211; 17:10<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Inaugural Address 3: Conversation Analysis in Language Education<\/strong><br>Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman<\/td><td>17:10 &#8211; 17:20<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Closing &amp; Group photo<\/strong><\/td><td>17:20 &#8211; 17:30<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Reception&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td>17:30 &#8211; 18:00<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are organizing the &#8220;Meet the New Team\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matefl.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}