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A Virtual Exchange between TEDU and UMKC brought together students taking English 250: Introduction to Language Acquisition and Diversity course at UMKC, USA and students taking ELEP 206: Language Acquisition course at TED University, Turkey. Students who participated in the exchange on a voluntary basis met with their partners in seven different groups through Zoom videoconferencing program to complete a task in which they discussed learning and teaching English as a second and foreign language.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Bilki’s co-authored article, entitled “Voluntary use of automated writing evaluation by content course students”, has been published in an international peer-reviewed journal “ ReCALL”. Click here to read the article. 

Our graduates from the Department of English Language Teaching, Aybüke Aksoy and Kamuran Güngör, met with the department students on Wednesday, January 13th. They shared their post-graduation experiences and the processes they went through prior to starting their jobs with the prospective graduate students of the department, who also had the opportunity to get informed about possible career paths.

Following the partnership agreement between TED University and University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC), faculty members in English Language Education program at TEDU and faculty members at Applied Language Institute and TESOL program at UMKC had a meeting on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. In this first meeting, after a quick introductory presentation of two institutions and programs, faculty members discussed possible partnership opportunities for the following semesters.

One of the faculty members at the Department of English Language Education, Asst. Prof. Dr. Pelin Irgin’s article with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Oz, entitled “EFL learners’ locus of control and translation achievement”, has been published in the latest volume of “ELT Research Journal”. Dr. Irgin’s article also meets the criteria for TED University Academic Publication Awards.