Current MA TEFL Faculty
| Full-time faculty | Dr. Julie Mathews-Aydınlı
Dr. Deniz Ortaçtepe
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Julie Mathews-Aydınlı completed her B.A. in Russian and Slavic Studies (1985) and M.A. and Ph.D. in Second Language Education (Dean's Honor List, 1999, 2003) at McGill University, Montreal. She came to Turkey in 2000 on a Fulbright research scholarship, and subsequently joined the Bilkent MA TEFL program in 2001. After two years leave during which she conducted research at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington DC, she returned to the MA TEFL program in fall 2006 and assumed the position of program director. Her professional and research interests include academic literacy development, qualitative research methods, curriculum development and design, and analysis of academic disciplinary discourse, in particular that of International Relations. |
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Deniz Ortaçtepe completed her BA (in ELT) and MA degrees (in Educational Sciences) at Bogazici University, Turkey. After working in Turkey for several years both as a research assistant and as an English teacher, in 2007 she moved to the United States to pursue her doctoral degree. In May 2011, she received her doctorate degree in Curriculum and Instruction at State University of New York-Albany, where she was also teaching academic writing to graduate students for the last four years. Her research interests are second language socialization, professional development of teachers, intercultural pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. |