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4th Evaluator Training Program was held on 21-22 September 2019 in Ankara by EPDAD (Association for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Teacher Training Programs), Our faculty members; Prof. Dr. Yüksel Kavak, Prof. Dr. Belgin Aydin, Dr. Zerrin Toker, Dr. Pelin İrgin, Dr. Melike Ünal Gezer and Dr. Sinem Sonsaat Hegelheimer participated in this seminar. 

Dr. Zeynep Bilki visited Newcastle University on 15-19 July 2019, for work shadowing some of research activities in the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. Dr. Bilki collaborated with the researchers from the Language Education Research Group to learn about current research activities conducted in the group and also to generate new ideas and projects for future collaboration. 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Melike Ünal Gezer, a faculty member of TED University’s Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Education, signed the Advisor Academician Protocol with Mohaç Primary School located in Çankaya district. 

The ideas from ELT Departments Meeting with 40 prospective teachers from 13 universities on June 21, and with 56 academicians from 25 universities on 28 June were reported. You can find the report here.

Dr. Pelin Irgin visited Faruk Nafiz Camlibel Anatolian High School on 4th of September and Hasan-Sükran Saruhan Secondary School on 6th of September, and presented her seminar titled as “Teachers’ stated belief about listening in a foreign language”. Then, Dr. Irgin applied a questionnaire and a 5-likert type scale on teachers’ belief about listening to the English teachers. The results of the data analysis will be shared with the teachers in the next meeting. 

Dr. Erdem Aksoy presented the paper titled '"An Analysis of compulsory secondary school English language teaching books by values and cultural concepts" at 2nd International Learning, Teaching, and Educational Research Congress 2019 (ILTER 2019) held in Amasya on 5-7 September 2019.

Prof. Dr. Belgin Aydın, the head of ELT Department, was at Bahçelievler Deneme Anatolian High School, with the invitation of the Principal Nurettin Işıldak, for the first meeting of Advisor Academician Protocol. In this meeting, organized with the aim of meeting the teachers working in that school and explaining the implementation of advisor academician, the topics of need analysis survey for teachers, awareness raising trainings and the teachers’ demands for certified trainings were discussed.

Research Assistant Ebru Boynueğri made a poster presentation at 19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology held in Athens, Greece. She presented her work titled “Gender differences in acculturation strategies and identity statutes in international students in Turkey”.