The MA TEFL program organizes special events during each year to enhance the education of its students and introduce students to new ideas and important people in the field. Below is a sampling of MA TEFL special events.
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| 2011-2012 |
Guest Lecture |
Cagri Ozkose-Biyik, Ph.D.
Cagri Ozkose-Biyik is currently an instructor at the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her BA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Bogazici University. Dr. Ozkose-Biyik earned her MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, specializing in language in education, at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research interests are foreign language teacher education, sociocultural approaches to language teaching and learning and educational psychology.
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Ayse Gurel, Associate Professor, Bogazici University
Ayşe Gürel holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from McGill University, Montréal, Canada. Her research interests are first language attrition and second language acquisition of morpho-syntactic features of English and Turkish, as well as neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of language acquisition and language loss. |
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Mete Akcaoglu, Ph.D. student
Mete Akcaoglu received his BA degree from Bogazici University on applied linguistics and went on studying the same subject at METU in Ankara. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the Educational Psychology and Educational Technology Program at Michigan State University. His current research interests include, but are not limited to, gaming in education, distance education theories and their practical applications, educational policy and comparative international education research. |
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Ciler Hatipoglu, Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University
Ciler Hatipoglu completed a BA in Foreign Language Education (Major Degree) and Linguistics (Minor Degree), and an MA in Foreign Language Testing at Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She also obtained an MA in Educational Sciences in 2002 and a PhD in Linguistics, in 2003, at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Her research interests are Politeness, Cross-cultural Communication, Electronic Language, Speech Acts, Language and Gender, Interlanguage Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociophonetics, Corpus Linguistics, Foreign Language Testing |
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| 2009 |
TESOL Graduate Student Forum, Denver USA
March 25-28, 2009 |
Many of this year's MA TEFL students traveled again this year to the United States to present their on-going thesis research at the Graduate Student Forum of the annual TESOL Convention.
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Guest Lecture - Workshop June 6, 2009 |
Colleen Meyers, University of Minnesota
Teaching and Assessing EFL Pronunciation
Colleen Meyers works with international faculty and graduate students at the University of Minnesota . She has worked in the field of ESL/EFL for over 30 years, including a 2007 Fulbright to METU. The co-author of several books and a frequent presenter at TESOL conferences, Colleen's area of expertise is pronunciation techniques, focusing on a whole-body approach. |
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| 2008 |
Guest Lecture November 26, 2008 |
Dr. Bill Snyder, Columbia University
Developing bottom-up skills in reading: Building
Vocabulary and Improving Fluency |
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Guest Lecture Fall, 2008 |
Dr. Ayse Gurel , Bogazici University
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MA TEFL 20 th Anniversary Reunion Conference
June 26-28, 2008 |
This year's big event was our 20 th anniversary reunion conference, which was held at Bilkent on June 26-28, 2008 . Attending were most of the former program directors--John Aydelott, Aaron Carton, James Stalker, Sarah Klinghammer, Fredricka Stoller, Ted Rodgers, Dan Tannacito, Phyllis Lim, Kim Trimble, and Susan Johnston--and former faculty member Bill Snyder. Also in attendance were more than 130 MA TEFL alumni from the past 20 years. Participants presented their current research and conducted workshops on innovative teaching practices in the field of EFL. PROGRAM LINK. PICTURES.
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TESOL Graduate Student Forum, New York City
April 2-5, 2008 |
Once again this year, most of the MA TEFL students traveled to the US to present their on-going research at the Graduate Student Forum, preceding the annual TESOL Convention.
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| 2007 |
Guest Lecture February 2007 |
Dr. Theodore Rodgers, University of Hawaii
Research Language: Useful Fixed Phrases vs. Unwise Plagiarism
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TESOL Graduate Student Forum, Seattle Washington, USA March 19-24, 2007 |
In March 2007, the MA TEFL students traveled to Seattle Washington to participate in the Graduate Student Forum which precedes the annual TESOL Convention. This one-day event features paper and poster presentations of current research by graduate students worldwide. Bilkent MA TEFL students not only presented their own research, but also shared responsibility for managing the Graduate Student Forum - the first time a school outside of the United States was invited to take this role.
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