Academic Staff

Akkadin Cankaya Sevim was born in 1986 in Germany. She completing her primary and high school education in Germany. In 2008 she moved to Izmir and got her B.A. degree in German Teaching at Dokuz Eylül University in 2012. After her degree she returned to Germany and worked in the Language schools Deutsch Akademie and BerlinerID as a German Teacher for two years. She has worked as a German Teacher in Goethe Institute Izmir.

Hülya Eser was born on 12 February 1973 in Germany. She completed her primary, secondary and high school education in Germany. She returned to Turkey in 1992. She graduated from Atatürk University the department of German Language and Literature education with high degree. She worked as a translator in İzmir. She joined the Pedagogic certificate program of Dokuz Eylül University in 1999. She has taught in various schools until 2003 and she also gave private lessons. She has been in Paderborn University in 2003 and then went on teaching. She has been working at Izmir Economy University as a German instructor since February 2005. 2010 she has participated for one year at the Goethe Institute in "methodology and didactics of foreign language teaching". 2011 she successfully participated at the examiner qualification telc German A2, B1 and B2 and acquired the examiner license. The license entitles her to evaluate the expression of the written tests and oral examinations.

He was born in Denizli. At 4 he went with his family to Germany, where he completed primary, secondary and high school. In 1978 he settled back to Turkey. He studied German Language and Literature at Ege University. During his education he took Latin lessons for two semesters. He worked as a translator for the presidency of general staff. He was a certified translator for about 12 years. He worked as a lecturer for 21 years at Dokuz Eylül, Ege and Ankara University. He was Head of Department of Foreign Languages at Tömer in Ankara University. He received the certificate of teaching Turkish as a foreign language from Ankara University. He is a licensed German tourist guide working for the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Since 1984, he has worked in his spare time as a licensed tourist guide. He has received a certificate for folk dance from Balçova Public Education Center. He is also a swimming instructor and a life guard. (DLRG Grundschein) 2011 he successfully acquired the examiner license for TELC German A2, B1 and B2. The license entitles him to evaluate the expression of the written tests and oral examinations. Since January 2018, he has been organising cultural and educational trips to Berlin and Munich.

Elif Elvan Boduroğlu was born in 1976 in Germany. Having graduated from high school in Germany, she returned to Turkey in 1994 and studied at Bornova Anatolian High School. She got her B.A. degree in German Teaching at Dokuz Eylül University in 2000. Prior to her graduation, she got a Diploma in German Language in 1997, obtained the first place in a translation contest called “Young Translators” held by Ankara University in 1997 and got a TÖMER Diploma in English in 1999. She fulfilled her practice teaching at Fatih College in 1999 and Yunus Emre Anatolian High School in 2000. She worked at Beyaz Balon Kindergarten until 2002, and she has been a German instructor at IUE School of Foreign Languages since then. She was the German Language Academic Coordinator at IUE between September 2015 and July 2020. 2010 she received the certificate for the completed one-year-long distance learning at the Goethe Institute in "Methodology and Didactics Of Foreign Language Teaching". 2011 she successfully participated at the examiner qualification TELC German A2, B1 and B2 and acquired the examiner license. The license entitles her to evaluate the expression of the written tests and oral examinations. 2012-2013 EAQUALS Commitee membership Between 2013 and 2020 she was an active member of the Literature Club for Contemporary German Literature at the Goethe Institute in Izmir.

Cihangir Tala was born in Germany in 1978. He completed his high school education in Bornova Anatolian High School. After receiving his BA degree in German Language Teaching department from 9 Eylül University, he worked at Bornova Anatolian High School in 2004. In 2006, he joined the staff of Foreign Languages Department as a German instructor. 2011 he successfully participated at the examiner qualification TELC German A2, B1 and B2 and acquired the examiner license. The license entitles his to evaluate the expression of the written tests and oral examinations. Within the same year he has joined to "Leipzig and Münih" semınars. In 2015, he has being successful by joining in the name of "Foreign language lessons in digital media". He has been the German Language Academic Coordinator at IEU since July 2020.

Tülay Inceisa was born in 1961 in Konya, Turkey She has lived for 16 years in Stuttgart, Germany. After completing her high school education at Karşıyaka Kız Lisesi She got her BA of German Teacher from the 9 Eylül University, İzmir. After teaching German at Fatih Private School, and Goethe Institute, she worked for a while at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany., İzmir. She has been working as German Instructor at IEU/ School of Foreign Languages since 2003. 2011 she successfully participated at the examiner qualification TELC German A2, B1 and B2 and acquired the examiner license. The license entitles her to evaluate the expression of the written tests and oral examinations. 2011 she successfully participated at the examiner qualification TELC German C1 acquired the examiner license. The license entitles her to evaluate the expression of oral examinations.

Nilay Altınkurt Gezgin was born in 1977 in Ingolstadt, Germany. After completing her primary and high school education in Germany, she moved to Izmir, Turkey in 1994, where she additionally went to Izmir Kız Lisesi. She studied German Language and Literature at Ege University and graduated in 2001. In August 2001, she started her internship as a German teacher at DAS Academy and worked there until 2002. From 2002-2006 she continued her career at Ankara University TÖMER Language School as a German teacher and in 2005/2006 also as the Head of Foreign Languages Department. rnSince September 2006 she has been working as a German Instructor at our University.rn