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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.

As part of the Curriculum in International Contexts course taught by Dr. Gizem Güzeller, lecturer at TED University Faculty of Education, Didem Şahin, an IB Mathematics Teacher at Zurich International School, joined the class as a guest speaker.

Our Dean of the Faculty of Education, Prof. Dr. Kursat Cagiltay’s article titled “Educational myths among teachers: prevalence and refutational intervention for belief change” has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (SSCI – Q1), a journal in the Nature portfolio.

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.”

The Academic General Assembly of TED University Faculty of Education—serving as a meeting for planning, evaluation, and sharing for the 2025–2026 academic year—was held on October 9, 2025.

The meeting began with the opening speech by the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Prof. Dr. Kürşat Çağıltay. Prof. Dr. Çağıltay emphasized the faculty’s continued commitment to quality in education, diversity in research, and contribution to society, and expressed his wishes for a productive academic year.

We proudly completed the 1st Training Session of our Culturally Responsive Schools (CRE4ALL: https://cre4all.tedu.edu.tr/) Project with great excitement and enthusiasm!

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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