Academic Staff

Feyza Özdemir graduated from 9 Eylül University, the Department of English Language Teaching in 1997. She had worked as an English Language Instructor at TÖMER and Ege University before she started working at Izmir University of Economics in 2005.

Beril Kebapçıoğlu graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, English Language Teaching Department in 2003 with high honours. In the same year she joined İzmir University of Economics, School of Foreign Languages as an instructor of English. In the summer of 2005, she went to England, Sidmouth International School, where she received the certificate "Overseas Teachers of English". She has received certificates for vocabulary and grammar teaching. She successfully completed “Teacher Development Course” awarded by the British Council. She received her M.A. degree from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Educational Sciences, Division of Curriculum and Instruction in 2008. She worked in the Curriculum and Material Development Unit/IUE between 2010 and 2015. She is still working as an instructor of English in the School of Foreign Languages.

Murat Özdemir graduated from Selçuk University, English Language and Literature Department in 1993. He worked for Ankara University TÖMER Language Teaching Center at different branches as instructor of English, Director of Education and Head of English Department between 1993-2001. Later on he worked as a manager of a private language school. Finally he joined Izmir University of Economics in 2002 and has been working as an Instructor of English, editor of the web site of The School of Foreign Languages (sfl.ieu.edu.tr), and administrator and assessor of interactive digital platforms used at the School of Foreign Languages.

Michelle Necla Keskin was born in England in 1981. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature. In 2004, she received her English Teaching certificate from Ege University. She also successfully completed I-CELT awarded by Cambridge University in 2006. She worked as an English instructor at Dokuz Eylul University between 2004 and 2006. In her first year there, she was a member of the Material Development Unit. A year later, she became a member of the Testing Unit. She joined Izmir University of Economics in September 2006. She worked in the Curriculum and Material Development Unit from 2008 to 2014. Since 2014, she has been working as an Administrative Assistant at IUE.

Idil Kırıkkaya was born in Izmir in 1979. She graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Education English Language Teaching Department in 2001. After her graduation, she started working at Anadolu University School of Foreign Languages as an instructor. She joined Izmir University of Economics in September 2004. She holds an MA degree from Dokuz Eylül University on Division of Curriculum and Instruction. Between 2006 and 2008, she worked as a member of the “Material Development Unit”. between 2008 and 2015, she worked as a member of the testing office at İzmir University of Economics. In 2009, she attended a series of training sessions on “Modular System and Its Implications” presented by Keith Morrow.

Burcu Beatrice Yavaser was born in Edmonton, Canada in 1974. She grew up in Edmonton, Alberta and received an advanced high school diploma before enrolling as an undergraduate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She graduated from the University of Alberta where she obtained a degree in Economics and International Relations in 2000. Before graduating from university, in 1997, she received her TEFL certificate from Alberta Vocational College. She worked for a financial consulting firm for about two years after graduating from university. In 2002, Burcu Beatrice came to Turkey and worked in language schools and private schools in Istanbul before joining IUE in 2004. In 2006, she attended a “Six Day Course on Testing” and was awarded a certificate by Pilgrims. In 2009, she successfully completed the “British Council ELT Diploma Course”. In May of that same year, she attended a series of training sessions on “The Modular System and Its Implications for Testing” presented by Keith Morrow. In September of 2009, she attended the “ALTE Introductory Course in Language Testing” and “ALTE Course in Testing Listening” in Venice, Italy. In 2014, she successfully completed the "Management in ELT" course and received a certificate. She obtained a CELTA from Izmir University of Economics. Currently, she is working towards her DELTA. Burcu Beatrice joined the Testing Unit at IUE in 2005 and has been a member since then. She has interest in exploring different areas of assessment, measurement and evaluation and designing assessment tools. She attends workshops and courses related to assessment, measurement and evaluation. Currently, Burcu Beatrice is the Academic Coordinator of the English Prep Program.

Dilge Yılmaz graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English Language and Literature from Ege University in 2014. She received her master’s degree in English Language and Literature from Ege University in 2017. During her studies, she was granted with DAAD and TUBITAK-BIDEB scholarships. She holds SIT TESOL Graduate Certificate. She speaks English, German, French and Italian.

Gulsah Yaglidag was born in Izmir. She graduated from Ege University with a B.A degree in English Language and Literature in 1999. Having received her Pedagogical Training Certificate she started her career as an English Instructor in Foreign Languages Department at Ege University in 2000. With a dissertation on 'The Concept of Otherness: Arundhati Roy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Deborah Moggach`s works in the Postcolonial Context', she received her M.A degree in English Language and Literature at Ege University. In 2001 she was awarded the certificate in 'The Teaching of English Grammar to Adults' by The British Council. She is a keen attender of ELT workshops and seminars. She completed a 40-hour-training course on 'Business English' at Ege University in 2003. She presented a workshop entitled 'Suggestopedia in Writing Lessons' in Foreign Languages Department at Ege University in the same year. She attended the 'Business English' course at Aspect Language Institute in New York, U.S.A, for 3 months in 2005 and received a completion certificate at the end of the course. She joined the English Teaching Staff at Izmir University of Economics in 2005.

Ceyhun Ergin received her BA degree in English Language and Literature from Ankara University in 1980. She started her teaching career at Ozel Turk College in Izmir. After teaching there for three years, she started working at Izmir Fatih College in 1989. During her time there, she worked as an English Teacher and Head of English Department. After working there for 17 years, she joined IEU staff in 2006.

Seher Kosacı received her BA degree in American Culture and Literature in 2003 from Ege University and her MA degree in the same program in 2013. After working as an Instructor of English at Ege University, she started working at Izmir University as a member of the Research and Development Team. Since September 2016, she has been working at Izmir University of Economics.

Filiz Kaya graduated from Middle East Technical University, Foreign Language Education Department in 1999. She has worked at preparatory schools of many different uiversities including Ankara University, Bilkent University, İstanbul Bilgi University and Bahçeşehir University as an instructor. While she was working at Bilkent University, she completed the COTE (Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English) program in 2001. She joined İzmir University of Economics in 2006.

Figen Akgöl graduated from Ankara University English Language and Literature Department in 1990. After working in private language schools and TÖMER between 1990 and 1994, she joined Bilkent University School of English (BUSEL), where she worked in the Curriculum and Testing Unit, and acted as Deputy Head of Teaching Unit besides teaching in the Preparatory Program. She started to work in İzmir University of Economics in September 2004 as an English instructor. Having acted as the Head of Self Access Center in the Preparatory Program for 2.5 years, she resumed her post as a full time English instructor.

She was born in İzmir in 1974. She completed her secondary and high school education at İzmir Özel Fatih High School. She received her BA’s degree in English Language and Literature from the Aegean University in 1996. After her graduation, she worked at İzmir Pamuk Mensucat as a customer representative for 3 years. She started her teaching career at the Aegean University in 2000. She worked there for six years as an instructor of English for the preparatory program. During her work experience, she attended numerous ELT workshops and seminars. Apart from many workshops and seminars, in 20003 she completed a 40-hour training course on “Business English” at the Aegean University. Then in 2005, she received a certificate in teacher development (TDC Part 1) from the British Council. She joined İzmir University of Economics in 2006.

Catherine Baydar was born and educated in England. She has been working in the IUE Prep Program since September 2004. During her time at IUE she has worked in the Materials Development Department and Testing Unit. She has also taken part in committee work during the EQUALS accreditation process and helped organize a Focus on Assessment Issues (FOAI) event. As part of her continuous professional development she has recently successfully completed two certificate programs sponsored by the US Department of State Office for English Language Programs.

Didem Secer completed her high school education at Hamilton High School, Ohio, USA. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from Boğaziçi University in 1995. Following her graduation, she worked as an account executive in various advertising agencies for three years. From 1998 to 2000 she worked for Osmangazi Anatolian High School as an English Instructor. From 2000 to 2006 she worked for Yeditepe University as an English instructor. In 2006 she started working at İzmir University of Economics as an English instructor.

She graduated from Ege University English Language and Literature Department in 1999.She started her career as an English teacher in İzmir Anadolu Kız High School and worked there for 2 years. Then she worked in Işıkkent Eğitim Kampüsü for a year. After that she worked as a lecturer at Ege University Foreign Languages Department for 4 years. Between the years 1999-2005 she worked with adult groups in Address Education Center and attended several seminars and educational programs. She has been working as a lecturer at Izmir University of Economics since 2005.

Gülçin Güvençli was born in Antalya in 1976. She completed her high school education at Izmir Fatih High School . She, then, received her BA degree as an Honour Student in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University in 1998. After working in tourism and finance, she started her teaching career at Izmir Ege High School in September 2000. In her first year there, she got a Certificate in English Language Teaching from the British Council. In addition to teaching English at all levels, she worked as a student project advisor, prepared movie nights and end-of-year shows for students. She also organised the first exchange program with Italy. She joined Izmir University of Economics in September 2003. During her twenty years teaching experience, she attended several seminars on Real Communication in EFL Classrooms, Practical Applications of NLP, using the Internet for ELT, using Pictures in the Classrooms and Classroom Management Skills. She holds many certificates on teaching such as Teaching Grammar, Teaching Vocabulary, Teaching Generation Z Students, Maximising Learner Outcomes, Language Analysis and so on. She holds a Certificate of Achievement for being a committee member of the 1st ELT Conference given by IUE, as well. Between 2018 and 2022, she worked as a member of Curriculum and Material Development Unit. In September 2022, she created @ieuyabancidiller, the official Instagram page of IUE School of Foreign Languages. Since then, she has been managing the account, and also working as a member of the Activity Center for Teachers and Students.

Özlem Camkıran Evans started working as an instructor for Ankara University TÖMER, Turkish and Foreign Languages Research and Application Centre after graduating from the department of English Language and Literature , Ankara University, She continued working there as the Director of Studies until she joined Izmir University of Economics. She worked in this institition as an Academic Coordinator and now works as an instructor. During her teaching career, she attended numerous seminars on a variety of ELT issues and received certificates .She has an MA in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language from Dokuz Eylul University. She taught Turkish to American students as a part of ARIT (American Research Instite) project.

Sabire Pınar Acar received her BA in English Language and Literature from Ege University and MA in ELT from Bahcesehir University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Dokuz Eylul University English Language Education Program. She taught English in different schools in Izmir and Istanbul. She holds the Cambridge Delta qualification. She completed several trainer training courses such as SLTEP 2016 at Sabancı University and Cambridge Training the Trainer Course. She is also a member of the Teacher Development Unit in the School of Foreign Languages.

Mehmet Haldun Kaya graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Foreign Language Education Department with a high honour degree. He was granted the degree of Master of Arts by Dokuz Eylül University, the Institute of Educational Sciences, Curriculum and Instruction Department. He also holds the Cambridge Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (DELTA with Distinction). He completed his PhD on ‘Educational Technology’ at Bahçeşehir University, the Institute of Educational Sciences, the Computer and Instructional Technologies Department. He has publications on teacher development and educational technologies in ELT. Dr. M. Haldun Kaya is also a University of Cambridge approved CELTA tutor. Dr. M. Haldun Kaya has been working at the IUE School of Foreign Languages both as an instructor and trainer since 2002.

Gülgün İnan was born in İzmir in 1979. She then received her Bachelor's degree in American Culture and Literature from Ege University in 2001. During B.A., she received a certificate of Effective Business Communication in 1998. After completing her teaching training at Bornova Anatolian High School, she received her Pedagogical Training Certificate. Gülgün received her degree in Master of Arts in American Culture and Literature from Ege University in 2004 after writing her thesis on poetry called, Issues of Race and Gender in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has worked at Ege University Foreign Languages Department, as an English instructor, for four years. In 2005, she completed the TDC (Teacher Development Course) part1 program at British Council. She joined the staff of Izmir University of Economics in 2005. She worked at the Self Access Centre of the university for two years. She attended IATEFL in Exeter University, England in 2008 with a paper called “A Taste of American Culture in the Classroom”. After the conference, her paper was published in a Polish magazine called, “The Teacher”.

Ebru Çetindağ completed her high school education at Özel Türk High School. She graduated from Gazi University of English Teaching Department in 1993. She worked for Izmir Pamuk Mensucatı T.A.Ş as USA Export Manager. She began her teaching career in Özel Deniz High School, then continued her career in a state high school. She joined IUE in 2002.

Funda Çetin is a graduate of Marmara University and taught at Bilkent University before joining Izmir University of Economics in 2002. She holds COTE (Certificate for Overseas Teachers of English-Cambridge University) and CEELT (Cambridge Examination in English for Language Teachers) certificates. She is an approved Cambridge ESOL Young Learners Oral Examiner, and a CELTA and ICELT tutor for Cambridge ESOL Teaching Awards. She holds the Cambridge ESOL DELTA qualification. She is involved in in-service training and teacher development in her current position.

Özge Coşkun Aysal was born in Manisa in 1979. She graduated from the Department of Translation and Interpretation at Bilkent University in 2002. After she graduated from Bilkent University, she worked for the Canadian Embassy in Ankara for three years as Translator and Interpreter and provided interpretation services at very high level diplomatic meetings. She received her English Language Teaching Certificate from Başkent University in 2005. She joined IUE in 2005. She has participated in various teacher research projects and a great number of events on teacher development. She holds an MA in Translation and Interpretation from Dokuz Eylül University. She received a certificate in Managing in Education in 2014 and Coaching and Team-building in 2018. She is now continuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision, Dokuz Eylül University. She is now working as the Assistant Director of the School of Foreign Languages. She has participated in different ELT organizations and given presentations on ELT. She is one of the founding members and the Supervisory Board members of the newly founded association in Turkey ‘İngiliz Dili Öğretimi Ve Mesleki Gelişim Derneği’ (TESOL Turkey). She is also an Executive Board Member of TESOL TURKEY LAMSIG. Her particular interest is in lifelong learning and educational management.

Nihal Armağan Ersoy was born in İzmir in 1979. Having received her BA in Translation-Interpreting from Boğaziçi University in 2002, she began her MA in European Studies at Izmir University of Economics in the same year. She completed her MA with a dissertation titled “Changing Patterns in Turkey-EU relations: From Eligibility to Candidacy and Beyond” in 2004. She started her PhD at Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Europan Studies in 2008. She is working on her dissertation now. Her professional interests are the translation of EU texts and Legal English. She has articles and translations published in different years. She joined the IUE staff in 2003.

Nilay Yengil was born in Izmir in 1976. She completed her high school education at Izmir Fatih High School. She then received her B.A. degree in English Language Teaching from Anadolu University in 1999. She completed her Master's Degree in Public Relations and Advertising at Yeditepe University. She started her teaching career at Istanbul Galatasaray High School between 2000-2002. Then she moved to Izmir and worked as an English teacher at Izmir Fatih High School in 2002.She continued teaching at Anadolu Ticaret ve İletişim Meslek Lisesi and she joined the School of Foreign Languages staff at Izmir University of Economics in 2004.

Semra Hasegeli graduated from Ege University-Department of English Language and Literature. She began her career at Turk College and continued teaching at the same school until she decided to work at IEU. She taught at different levels to a variety of age groups. She is interested in preparing different tasks for presenting and revising vocabulary. She is specialized in working with students who are to take YDS.

Finished high school in Eskişehir and graduated from Anadolu University Faculty of Education English Language Teaching Department.After working in different private and state schools,started working in IEU in 2006.

Gulfem Akdogan received her Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Bogazici University in 1994. She worked for Ankara University TOMER as an English instructor for a year. In 1995, she joined Pinar Food Group where she worked for over seven years in the Import Department. Between 2002 and 2003, she worked for PhilSA as ISO Quality and Environmental Management System Assistant. Having decided to return to her teaching career, she completed a two-semestre course on English Language Teaching and Pedagogical Formation at Ege University where she received her qualification. She then worked for the Foreign Languages Department at Ege University between 2003 and 2006 as an English instructor and consultant to the Testing Committee until she joined Izmir University of Economics. At IUE, she is an instructor of English. Between the years 2008 and 2011, she also served as a member of Curriculum and Materials Development Unit. Since 2019 she has also been a member of the SFL Activity Center team.

Yasemin Yorgancıoğlu has completed her high school education at the Izmir American Collegiate Institute. She then studied Linguistics and Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. After returning to Turkey, she studied English Language and Literature at the Aegean University. Her teaching career has involved teaching at several state high schools and private schools. She took part in the foundation process of the School of Foreign Languages at the İzmir Institute of Technology in 1995. She joined IUE in 2001 and ,once more, took part in the founding faculty of an educational institute of university level. She has been a lecturer and an Academic Coordinator in the Preparatory Program of Izmir University of Economics since September 2001. In addition, she is a qualified UCLES examiner.

Elif Akalp graduated from Boğaziçi University in 2001. Between 2003-2005, she worked as an English Language Instructor at TÖMER. She has been working at Izmir University of Economics since 2005.

Reyhan Köse received her BA degree in English Language Teaching from Ataturk University in 1992. She started her teaching career in Mersin American Cultural Association. Upon proving to be successful in the Turkish Air Force Air Language School Test, she worked as a Civilian English Instructor for the Turkish Air Force until 1998. As a part of in-service teacher development seminars, she attended Defense Language Institute Teacher Training Program-Advanced Level and got her certificate. Between the years of 1998 and 2000 she worked for Ozel Fatih College, where she then was promoted to the Izmir Advanced Education Institute University Study Program in affiliation with Fairleigh Dickinson University. She joined the IUE staff in 2005. She currently works as an Instructor and test writer in the English Language Preparatory Program.

Monique Boelman-Gümüş holds a Bachelors’ in Economic Linguistics (English/French/Dutch, IHBO De Maere), a Master of Science in Psychology from Tilburg University and a Master of Arts in HR-Management from the University of the West of England. In 1991, she started her working career as a psychology lecturer at Tilburg University, after which she went to work as a management consultant. After several years, she took up a position as senior program manager at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University), where she designed, developed and coached high level management development programs. Her expert knowledge of English and background as an educational psychologist turn out to be an excellent combination while lecturing English at IEU.

Michelle Douglas graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 1985 with a 2:1 B.A.Hons in Modern Languages with Political Science. After graduation she worked in Human Resources for several years before becoming self - employed and running her own retail business. After relocating to Turkey in 2007 she taught English in a private school before joining the Preparatory school at IUE in 2014.

Education: B.A. İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi, 1999 CV: Deniz Gebitekin studied at Izmir Private Turk College (1988-1995). She graduated from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University English Language and Literature department in 1999. She worked as a tour guide during her education at university. In 1999, she successfully completed the course of English Language Teaching.She completed her stage at Anadolu Dershaneleri and Video English in 2000-2001. In 2001-2002 she worked at TED Aliağa College. She also completed CertELT program organised by The British Council.

Gillian Mazıcı was born in the North East of England. After graduating in Education and Community Studies from the University of Leeds in 1980, she began her working life in an educational foundation in London. Before coming to Turkey, she worked for several years in human resource management. In 1992 she gained an RSA TEFL certificate and began teaching in a private school in Kuşadası. From there she went to Ankara where she worked in METU Foundation Primary school until 1997. After teaching in the preparatory programme at Başkent University for one year, she returned to METU where she worked in the School of Foreign Languages, Preparatory Department until 2002. In 2002 she joined the staff of the School of Foreign Languages at IEU and since then she has been working as an instructor and as an Academic Coordinator since 2004.

Mary Jane Özkurkudis is an instructor and the Head of the Curriculum and Material Development Unit in the prep programme. She graduated from Ege University with first class honours degree in 2000 and holds a BA in English Language and Literature. She completed her MA in Curriculum and Instruction at Ege University in January, 2018. Between 1996-2001 she worked at the British Consulate İzmir as a Consular Assistant and in 2001 with the foundation of Izmir University of Economics, she started working in the School of Foreign Languages as an Instructor. After she had worked there for five years, in 2006 she started working at the Consulate General of Greece in Izmir as a Consular Assistant and a translator. In 2012, she returned to the University and started working in the School of Foreign Languages as an English language instructor. She is the holder of a Pedagogic Teaching Certificate (Ege University), a Certificate in English Language Teaching (British Council), a Certificate in Teaching of English Grammar to Adults (British Council), a Certificate in Teaching Phonology (University of Economics), a Certificate in English for Business (London School of Journalism), a Certificate in Learner Training (University of Economics), a Certificate in the Skills of Teacher Training (British Council), a Certificate in ELT Management (Hox&Erix), a Diploma in Business Law (Stonebridge Associated Colleges) and a Certificate in Curriculum Development (Canadian College of Educators). She has attended several conferences and presented papers. She taught English for Academic Purposes to Freshman classes for two semesters. In the 2020 Spring term she was granted a scholarship by the US Government and successfully completed the Integrating Critical Thinking into the Exploration of Culture in an EFL Setting course. In November 2020, she completed a Teacher Training course sponsored by the US Embassy in Turkey. In 2021, she received her TESOL Advanced Practitioner Certificate. In 2022, she received a Professional Development for Teacher Trainers Certificate from Arizona State University and a Certificate in Teaching and Developing Academic Writing from Iowa State University. She has written seven articles, two of which were published in a journal scanned in the Web of Science (WoS) database.

Max Damiani has a BA in History from Birkbeck College, University of London, and also holds the Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA). He went to primary school in Switzerland, high school in Italy, and university in the United Kingdom. He worked for many years in the hospitality industry in London where he held managerial positions and was also involved in staff training. While working in the industry, he decided to gain experience, first as a teaching assistant, and then as a reading helper, before finally deciding to retrain and work as a full-time teacher. As well as English, he has taught French and Italian in private schools. He has been working at the Izmir University of Economics since September 2017.

She was born in İzmir, in 1973. She completed her high school education at Özel Fatih High School.After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in English Language Teaching Department from Dokuz Eylül University in 1995, she began teaching at Özel İzmir College and then worked at Özel Çakabey College. She continued her teaching career at İzmir Institute of Technology. She worked there for six years and for the last two years she was the Preparatory School Academic Coordinator. In 2006 she moved to İstanbul for a year and worked at Yeditepe University. After coming back to İzmir, she started working at İzmir University of Economics in 2007. She currently works as an Academic Coordinator in the Preparatory Programme.

Retired İntelligence Officer/Satellite İmagery Analyst from the UK military with 31 years service. Studied Art History, the Humanities and Astronomy at undergraduate level. Attained a Masters Degree with Distinction in İntelligence and Global Security Studies with Buckingham University, UK and additionally, a diploma/degree equivalent qualification in Leadership and Management through military service. Worked at İEU for 2 years and completed CELTA and DELTA Module 1.

Aygün Boduroğlu received his BA degree in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University in 2001 and joined the Izmir University of Economics School of Foreign Languages Staff the same year. He successfully completed two teacher development courses (Certificate in English Language Teaching and Certificate of Teaching of the Pronunciation of English) organized by the British Council in 2003. He served as a translator and interpreter at the Gendarmerie General Command in 2003-2004. He holds a master’s degree in Educational Sciences. He is a certified PTE Academic (Pearson Test of English Academic) trainer. He also works as an IELTS exam instructor for EKOSEM (Izmir University of Economics Continuous Education Center).

Meltem Akçora was born in Izmir, in 1974 and completed her elemantary, second and high school education in Izmir Ozel Fatih High School. She received her BA degree in English Language and Literature from the Aegean University in 1996. She started her teaching career at Izmir Ozel Fatih High School in the same year. During her education and teaching career she has been to England and to the United States to further her knowledge of English. She has worked in Izmir Ozel Fatih High School for 9 years until joining the IUE as an English instructor in 2005.

She was born in İzmir, in 1974. She completed her secondary and high school education at İzmir Ozel Turk Hıgh School. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the Aegean University in 1996. After her graduation, she worked at Sundora-K dried fruit company for a year as an assistant manager. At that time, she worked as a part-time English instructor at Kent English Language course. She started teaching at Izmir Ozel Fatih High School in 1997 and remained there until 2006. During her teaching experience, she attended several seminars and workshops about language teaching. She completed “The Trainer Training Course” and “The DIPELT course” organised by the British Council in 2000. She joined Izmir University of Economics in 2006. She completed the ICELT course organised by Cambridge University in 2008.

Pamela McArthur Yalçuk was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. After graduating in Government and Modern History from Heriot-Watt University, she did a postgraduate diploma in Industrial Administration at Napier University. Her first employment was with a large American multi-national company where she was in charge of the financial accounting department. She worked with them for 11 years before becoming the Operations Manager of a private training company affiliated to the local further education college. After obtaining her TESOL certificate, Pamela moved to Izmir, Turkey in 2002 to teach adults and children at a private language school. In 2008 she began working at Izmir University of Economics where she has been a member of both the Testing and Curriculum and Materials Development Teams. She recently developed a new course for Technical English for Engineers and currently coordinates that course. She has qualifications in assessing, coaching and appraising staff.

Friday Longwe comes from a business background and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies. In 2011, Friday, graduated with a Masters of Arts Degree in Business Management specialising in Human Resources Management from the University of Bolton in Manchester - England. In 2013, he gained TEFL Certificate and began his teaching career at a Language School in Manchester. Friday moved to Turkey in 2014 and began teaching at TED KOLEJ in Mersin. From there he worked at Toros University in the School of Foreign Languages, as an English instructor in the Preparatory Department until 2017. He also holds (CELTA) awarded by Cambridge University. In 2017, he joined the staff at Izmir University of Economics, working as an instructor in the School of Foreign Languages.

Deniz Pektas graduated from Dokuz Eylül University ,Department of English Language Teaching in 2004.She worked as a part time instructor at Izmir Institute of Technologhy between 2004 and 2005.She participated in Teacher Development Courses (1and 2) organized by British Council .She joined Izmir University of Economics in 2005.

Nicholas Robson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1966. He graduated from Staffordshire University in 1989 receiving his BA degree in Geography. Between 1990- 1994 he worked in the city of London. He spent the following year traveling in India and Pakistan, before returning to London to work for Merrill Lynch. He arrived in Turkey in the spring of 2000 where he began teaching at language schools in Izmir. He completed a teaching certificate in 2002 from the British Council in Izmir and joined IEU in the same year.

Tim Evans graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA in English Literature in 1987. After working in sales and training for a number of years, Tim started teaching English in 1996. He has attended numerous courses and seminars and presented workshops on teaching and learning. He obtained a CELTA from Windsor School of Language in 1999. Tim has worked as an Academic Committee Member and D.O.S. at a number of institutions and started working at Economy University in 2006, where he remains employed as an instructor. He has attended many professional development courses and has certificates for such.

Following her graduation from Hacettepe University ELT department in 1993, she started to work at Ankara University TÖMER Language School. Between 1996-2000 she worked at Bilkent University MSSF Prep School, and 2000-2003 at Başkent University ELSBU Prep School as an Instructor of English. She has been working at IUE SFL Prep School as an Instructor of English since 2003.

Kamer Sertkan Öztin has been working as an English Language instructor in the Preparatory Program at the IUE School of Foreign Languages since 2003. She graduated from Bilkent University, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of American Culture and Literature in 2003. In the same year, she also obtained her English Teaching Certificate from Hacettepe University. In 2007, she received her Master’s Degree in Translation and Interpreting from Dokuz Eylül University. She also holds a doctoral degree in Translation Studies, which she received from the same university in 2023.

Z. Selen Saydam Erdinç holds a BA in American Culture and Literature from Ankara University and an MA in American Studies from Heidelberg Ruprecht Karls University. She received a CELT certificate from the Swan Training Institute, Ireland in 2011. She worked as an instructor at TOBB ETÜ Foreign Languages Department from 2011 to 2022 where she worked as a member of the Measurement and Evaluation Unit from 2012 to 2022. She has been working as an instructor at the Preparatory Program at Izmir University of Economics since August, 2022. She has attended several certificate programs, workshops and seminars on language assessment. She co-authored a number of test books for YÖKDİL and YDT. In addition, she provided a one-year in-house testing training series as part of a professional development project with the other members of the unit. Her professional interests include item development and assessment literacy.