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During the technology week of our ELT 203 Teaching Reading Skills course, Research Assistant Sevim Berhiv Acay joined us as a guest speaker. As part of the session, we held a workshop on how eye-tracking and virtual reality (VR) technologies can be used in teaching reading. Our students had the opportunity to experience both the eye-tracker and VR headsets, and we discussed how these tools can be integrated into language teaching.

Within the scope of the Teacher+ program carried out by the TEDU Faculty of Education, English language teacher candidates enrolled in the ELT 303 Teaching Speaking Skills course -identified as one of the pilot courses and delivered by Asst. Prof. Dr. Arzu Kanat-Mutluoğlu and Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sak from the Department of English Language Education- had the opportunity to gain pedagogical and technological experience in integrating tools such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality into their teaching processes.

Dr. Mehmet Sak, our faculty member at TEDU Faculty of Education, has received the “Young Researcher Award” at the 4th International Conference on Psychology for Language Teachers and Learners (ICPLTL-2025) held at İstanbul Medipol University, in recognition of his outstanding scholarly potential, innovative research endeavors, and valuable contributions to the field of the psychology of language learning and teaching.

Dr. Melike Ünal Gezer, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language Education at TED University, has been awarded funding by the TEDU Scientific Research Projects (BAP) program for her project titled “Optimizing *Older Young Learners’ Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Awareness via Linguistic Landscapes.”

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's co-authored article titled "From a Learner's Perspective: Tracing L2 Interactional Competence Development in Video-Mediated Task-Based Interactions" has been published in the International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
You can access the article via the link below:
lhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ijal.70008

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The project titled “Listening to the Voices of Students at Language Preparatory Programs: A Need Analysis”, designed by TED University English Language Teaching Department students, Zeynep Akyazı and Buğra Naim Acar, has been accepted within the scope of the TEDU Undergraduate Student Scientific Research Fund (TEDU-LAD).

In this project, the student researchers will investigate the perspectives of learners studying in English preparatory programs.

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's co-authored article titled "Claims of teacher learning and retrospective tracing of claimed events in video-mediated transnational virtual exchange interactions" has been published in the Applied Linguistics journal.
You can access the article via the link below:
https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaf055

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's co-authored article titled "Dealing with divergent feedback trajectories in video-mediated, transnational, and collaborative task design meetings" has been published in the Learning, Culture and Social Interaction journal.
You can access the article via the link below:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100936

Our faculty member in the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman, has authored a book chapter titled “Learning to Analyze L2 Classroom Interactions: The Case of Pre-Service Teachers’ Video-Mediated Interactions”, which was published in the book Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies, released by Springer.
You access the chapter via link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-88310-1_5