Faculty Members

Media literacy,classroom research, film literacy, literature, critical thinking

Curriculum and Instruction, Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research

English as an International Language, Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Trainer training, teacher training and development, creative methodology for teaching and training, affect and psychology in education, discourse analysis, teaching writing, qualitative research ELTJ Editorial Advisory Panel Member, January 2002-January 2005

- Academic staff planning
- Interview process
- Processes for national and international conferences attended by SL Academic Members
- Purchasing processes
- Budget preparation and monitoring
- National and international conference organization
- DO performance management processes
- Analysis and monitoring of SFTL reports
- Evaluation process for new academic staff in DO
- Hometrip process
- Leave processes
- Renewal processes of institutional memberships
- Providing occupational health and safety training
- DO book inventory tracking and distribution processes
- Uploading reports of projects conducted by SL Instructors throughout the year to the website
- Requests for catering and refreshments for events, meetings, etc., purchasing and organization processes.
- Transportation - transfer requests and purchasing processes
- External exam tracking project
- Organizing the Academic Consultation process
- Expense declaration forms
- Communicating with Human Resources, Finance and Accounting, Purchasing Department, Marketing and Institutional Communications, and University Services

Duties and Responsibilities of OHS Unit Representatives
“To support the Department Manager in ensuring coordination within the department in legally mandatory trainings, audits, drills, etc. to be organized on Occupational Health and Safety, to support the activities determined within the scope of Occupational Health and Safety Management System requirements, to ensure the implementation of these activities in their unit, to raise awareness of the people in their unit on these issues.

Sociolinguistics, language planning , teacher training

• Communication with SR, FDP, IRO and other units
• Course & program evaluation, needs analysis work for all projects
• Course offerings and registration issues
• ELAE work (student lists, eligibility lists, pack lists, result lists, etc, grade entries & announcing exam results; web announcements pre and post ELAE)
• Grade change forms
• Responding to student queries on SU-CRM
• Schedule changes & web announcements
• Section & classroom changes
• Semester course planning
• SL board decisions
• Statistics (ELAE, FDY, WLs, AL 102 tracking SL student in faculties)
• Student absences (on-leaves & inactives )
• Student petitions
• University-level support to the Director (Instruction letters, academic calendar, student issues, training projects,YÖK regulations)
• Disciplinary issues

teacher education, teacher training, mentoring, language learning/teaching, project-based learning, EMI

Affective factors in language learning, especially anxiety, stress / motivation critical reading / thinking skills learner autonomy writing portfolios technology in the classroom classroom dynamics

Cross- Cultural Rhetoric in Academic Writing, Critical Thinking, Critical Pedagogy, Humanistic & Democratic Education.

Spoken discourse Pedagogic grammar Needs analysis

Students' perceptions of the effect of error correction on their learning Using technology to improve students' reading ability by exposing themto more instances ofparticular words Video coaching: effective tool in improving one's own teaching skills by giving and getting feedback from peers, students and others without creating observation anxiety Using blogging in language teaching

vocabulary teaching,podcasts

• Providing support for all training sessions, seminars and events held during the semester. Preparation and printing of certificates, badges and other materials,
• Control, receipt and destruction process of archive parcels. Organizing the archive.
• Student absence statistics.
• Objection to exams and follow-up of make-up exam requests.
• ELAE work (stationery packages and exam room reservation and organization)
• Answering and directing calls or emails from parents, students and staff.
• Preparation and sending of the requested language documents on EBYS.
• Entering course schedules into the DPU system,
• Tracking and editing the Director’s calendar.
• Updating the SL website
• Stationery and resource supply and management.
• Publication of all announcements to be made on behalf of the School of Languages during the semester
• Providing the office, telephone and other needs of the new instructors. Updating the email, office and telephone lists and directories.
• Managing the student employment procedure (correspondence, organization)
• Collecting exemption documents by checking the acceptance criteria at the date ranges determined for each semester.

Teacher Education, ICT Skills, Technology-Enhanced Learning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation

Vocabulary learning, self-regulated learning, educational technologies, gamification, digital tools, mobile-assisted language learning

Literature, Translation Studies, Critical Thinking, Project Based Learning