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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

Hosted by our Faculty of Education and coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sibel Akın-Sabuncu, the opening meeting of the TÜBİTAK 3501 Culturally Responsive Schools Project (CRE4ALL: https://cre4all.tedu.edu.tr/), carried out in collaboration with Middle East Technical University and North Carolina State University in the United States, took place on Friday, September 26, 2025. The event began with opening speeches by our Dean of the Faculty of Education Prof. Dr.

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

Our faculty members from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Bilki and Lecturer Dr. Mehmet Sak, have co-authored an article titled “Virtual exchange as an aid for pre-service language teacher wellbeing: Evidence from a Turkish-Polish project”, which has been published in the journal SYSTEM, indexed in the SSCI and ranked in the Q1 category.

The article can be accessed via the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2025.103802

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's co-authored article titled "Why micro-teaching falls short in pre-service teacher education: a conversation analytic comparison of designed and actual troubles in teaching practices" has been published in the European Journal of Teacher Education.
You can access the article via the link below:
https://doi.org/10.1080/02619768.2025.2545865

Under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adile Gülşah Saranlı from the Faculty of Education, our Computer Engineering students Berna Danışman, Nuran Er, and Yavuz Selim Sever qualified to participate in the ICETOL (International Conference on Educational Technology and Online Learning) with their AI-supported Chatbot project developed for families of gifted children.

The project in which Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman is involved as a researcher has been awarded funding under the German DFG Scientific Networks call. The project, titled “Uncooperativeness and Second Language Acquisition: Conversation Analytic Perspectives,” will be coordinated by the Universities of Mannheim and Bielefeld. As part of this project, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman will conduct research over a period of 4 years together with a team of 20 researchers from 9 different countries.

Our faculty member from the Department of English Language Education, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ufuk Balaman's co-authored article titled "Word search sequences in video-mediated task-oriented L2 interactions: affordances for intercultural exchange," has been published in the SSCI-Q1 indexed journal Language and Intercultural Communication.
You can access the article via the link below:
https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2025.2499733