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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.

On November 01, 2022, we organized a meeting to our new coming first-year students. The students had the chance meet the academic staff who will be offering lecturers to them and ask their questions.

As the department, we wish our students good health and success in the new academic year.

Head of the English Language Teaching Department of our faculty, Prof. Dr. Belgin Elmas gave a presentation titled "The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself: Emotional Agility" at the 9th Change in Education Conference hosted by ABC Schools in Ankara on October 22, 2022, and the presentation attracted great interest.

On October 14, 2022, from Roof Coliving social enterprise, Izel Büyükgöze, Emre Güzel, and Zeynep Aybüke Mutlu were guests of our GENC 202 / EDU 401 Community Service course. After our conversation on community service and volunteering, our guests shared the establishment story of the initiative, it’s values ​​, and it’s works. For our students, who will develop and implement community service projects during the term, these sharings supported their practices and raised awareness of volunteering.

TED University Foreign Language Education Department Head Prof. Dr. Belgin Elmas and Research Assistant Mehmet Sak attended the international "Language Teacher Psychology" congress held at Mersin Çağ University on 6-7 October 2022 with their oral presentations. Prof. Dr. Belgin Elmas attended the congress with her paper titled “The best gift you can give to yourself: Emotional agility”, while Res. Asst. Mehmet Sak presented his paper titled “Exploring fluctuations of language teacher motivation in online EFL classes”.

Res. Asst. Mehmet Sak and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurdan Özbek Gürbüz’s co-authored article entitled “Unpacking the negative side-effects of directed motivational currents in L2: An interpretative phenomenological analysis” has been published in an international peer-reviewed journal “Language Teaching Research” (SSCI; Q1). Besides, the article is included within the scope of TÜBİTAK International Scientific Publications Incentive (UBYT) award and TEDÜ publication award.

"Being a Public Teacher: Rights, Responsibilities and Duties" held on Friday, May 13, 2022, via Zoom, was carried out by Özgür Bozdoğan, an English Language Teacher at Ankara Atatürk High School.