The article titled "Is Education Really a Must?" written by our department head Prof. Dr. Belgin ELMAS and Elif Naz Oğuz has been published in the Cumhuriyet News' website.
You can access the article from the link below:
https://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/egitim/prof-dr-belgin-elmas-egitim-sart-mi-gercekten-2063987
Lecturer Mehmet Sak and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurdan Özbek Gürbüz’s (METU) co-authored article titled “Dynamic changes in pre-service language teacher well-being in the classroom ecology: A micro approach” has been published in “TESOL Quarterly” (SSCI; Q1), one of the respected journals on language learning/teaching.
Our English Language Education department head Prof. Dr. Belgin ELMAS, hosted Esra ARDA on her YouTube channel.
You can reach the video where they talk about how we can cope with the emotions we experience after the earthquake, from the link:
Our department head Prof. Dr. Belgin ELMAS wrote "Education at universities should be carried out face to face in universities…"
Link to the blog post:
http://www.belginelmas.com/universitelerde-egitim-yuz-yuze-yapilmali/
TED University English Language Teaching fourth grade students visited TED Colleges in different cities of Turkey within the scope of the TED Ambassadors project carried out jointly by the Turkish Education Association and TED University. Our students Selen Ertunç visited TED Adana College, Ayşe Özkan TED Mersin College, Ezgi Arslan TED Eskişehir College, Ecem Gökçen Tunçer TED Samsun College and Fatma Betül Akmaz TED Karadeniz Ereğli College.
You are invited to our panel titled "Early Age Language Teaching Panel in Turkey", which will be held on Thursday, January 5, 2023, organized by the Department of English Language Education, where our distinguished participants will speak.
The event will take place via Zoom and the event language will be English.
Prof. Dr. Gülsev Pakkan, one of the faculty members of the Department of English Language Education, Department of Foreign Language Education of our faculty, gave a presentation in the 'Reflective Learning Adventures: Is It Too Hard to Learn English?' event held on December 2, 2022, hosted by Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa University.
Our department head Prof. Dr. Belgin Elmas was the guest of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Educator columnist Şahin Aybek. The duo talked about the problems of English education in Turkey and their solutions.
Res. Asst. Mehmet Sak’s single-authored article entitled “Dynamicity of language teacher motivation in online EFL classes” has been published in an international peer-reviewed journal “SYSTEM” (SSCI; Q1). While the article is the first to focus on how and why teacher motivation changes in short time intervals in online language lessons, it also provides new suggestions for increasing teachers' online teaching skills. Besides, the article is included within the scope of TÜBİTAK International Scientific Publications Incentive (UBYT) award and TEDU publication award.
Our 3rd grade students presented their educational and interactive posters they prepared for the course ELEP 301 Teaching English to Young Learners, instructed by Asst. Prof. Dr. Melike Ünal Gezer.
We thank our students for their beautiful posters and their efforts, and congratulate them for their creativity.