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Title:
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname:
TÜM
Status:
Title:
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Telephone:
2847
Email:
dtum@metu.edu.tr
Educational Background:
- B.A., Eastern Mediterranean University; M.A., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University College London, Institute of Education
Research Interests:
- Foreign language anxiety
- Non-native teachers and student teachers
- The teaching of languages in contexts of conflict
- The study of private tutoring in English
Courses Taught:
- ENGL 101
- ENGL 102
- ENGL 211
- ENGL 311
- EFL 121
- EFL 122
- EFL 123
- EFL 313
- EFL 324
- Preparatory Program
Selected Publications:
- Tum, D.O., Kunt, N., & Kunt, M. (2016). Language learning in conflictual contexts: a study of Turkish Cypriot adolescents learning Greek in Cyprus, Language, Culture and Curriculum, 29:2, 207-224, DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2015.1136322
- Tum, D. O. (2015). Foreign language anxiety's forgotten study: The case of the anxious student teacher. TESOL Quarterly, 49(4), 627-658.
- Tüm, D.Ö. & Kunt, N. (2013). Student teachers’ feelings of anxiety while speaking English. Hacettepe Ünivertisesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi [Hacettepe University Journal of Education], 28(3), 385-399.
- Tüm, D.Ö. (2013). Our Struggle with Language Teacher Anxiety, The Teacher Trainer Journal, 27(1), 15-18.
- Conference Publication (Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research (CY-ICER-2012) North Cyprus, 08-10 February, 2012) Tüm, D. Ö. Feelings of language anxiety amongst non-native student teachers. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 47, 2012, Pages 2055-2059.
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Title:
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Surname:
DEĞİRMENCİOĞLU
Status:
Title:
Asst. Prof. Dr.
Telephone:
2941
Email:
dnesrin@metu.edu.tr
Room:
SZ-31
Educational Background:
- B.A., Boğaziçi Üniversitesi; M.A., Ph.D., University of Warwick
Research Interests:
- Modern and Postmodern Literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature, Neoliberalism, Uneven and Combined Development.
Courses Taught:
- EFL 414 Schools of Modern Thought
- EFL 319 Drama Analysis
- EFL 318 Novel Analysis
- EFL 266 Comparative Literature
- EFL 211 English Literature I
- EFL 212 English Literature II
- EFL 130 Introduction to Literature
Selected Publications:
- Degirmencioglu, Nesrin. “Aesthetics of Uneven and Combined Development: Tanpınar and Dos Passos at a World Literary Conjuncture”. Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development. Eds. James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu. “Introduction: Why Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development?”. Cultures of Uneven and Combined Development. Eds. James Christie and Nesrin Degirmencioglu. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- Degirmencioglu, Nesrin. “Paul Auster, Orhan Pamuk and the Postmodern Allegory in a Global World”. Comparative Literature Studies (forthcoming)
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Title:
Instr. Dr.
Surname:
ERKMEN
Status:
Title:
Instr. Dr.
Telephone:
+90 392 661 2962
Email:
berkmen@metu.edu.tr
Room:
S-134
Educational Background:
- B.A.,Eastern Mediterranean University; M.A., University of Warwick; Ph.D., University of Nottingham
Research Interests:
- Teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning
- Teacher education; pre-service training
- Research methods
Courses Taught:
- Introduction to Education
- ELT Methodology
- Practice Teaching
- Teaching Language Skills
- Classroom Management
- Materials Adaptation and Development"
Selected Publications:
- Özbilgin, A., Erkmen, B. & Karaman, A. C. (2016). English language teacher professional development: When institutional frameworks fall short, The Inonu University Journal of the Faculty of Education, 17(1), 55-65.
- Erkmen, B. (2014). Novice EFL teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning and their classroom practices. Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 29(1), 99-113.
- Erkmen, B. (2013). A Shadowing Experience for TEFL Students. In Mann, S. and Edge, J. (eds.), Innovations in pre-servive education and training for English language teachers. London: The British Council.
- Conference Publication (Cyprus International Conference on Educational Research (CY-ICER-2012) North Cyprus, 08-10 February, 2012) Erkmen, B. Ways to uncover teachers' beliefs. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences,Volume 47, 2012, Pages 141–146.
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Title:
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Surname:
WALTER
Status:
Title:
Assoc. Prof. Dr.
Telephone:
+90 392 958
Email:
walter@metu.edu.tr
Room:
SZ-48
Educational Background:
- B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests:
- phonology
- phonetics
- sociolinguistics
Courses Taught:
- Linguistics I and II
- Language Acquisition
- Sound Patterns in Human Language
- Language, Politics and Identity
- Contrastive Turkish/English Structure
- Structure of Arabic
Selected Publications:
- Bradlow, Ann, Cynthia Clopper, Rajka Smiljanic, Mary Ann Walter. 2010. “A perceptual similarity space for languages: Evidence from five native language listener groups.” Speech Communication.
- “Probability matching and Arabic morphology.” (Submitted for publication).
- 2008. “Repetition leads to lenition in consonant sequences.” Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar on Speech Production.
- Hacquard, Valentine, Mary Ann Walter and Alec Marantz. 2007. “The effects of inventory on vowel perception in French and Spanish: An MEG study.” Brain and Language.
- 2006. “Pharyngealization effects in Maltese Arabic.” In Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Proceedings of the 16th Arabic Linguistics Society Symposium, S. Boudelaa (Ed.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Title:
Instr. Dr.
Surname:
ÖZBİLGİN GEZGİN
Status:
Title:
Instr. Dr.
Telephone:
+90392 661 2944
Email:
ozbilgin@metu.edu.tr
Room:
SZ-34
Educational Background:
- B.A., Hacettepe University; M.A., Bilkent University; Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
- Discourse Analysis
- Literacy Practices in EFL
- EFL/ESL Methodology
- Second Language Writing
- Corpus Linguistics
Courses Taught:
- EFL 123
- EFL 124
- EFL 128
- EFL 245
- EFL 247
- EFL 317 ELT Methodology 2
Selected Publications:
- Book Chapter Publication (International) Özbilgin, A. and D. J. Tannacito. 2010. The Parameter of Particularity: A Critical Analysis of a Supervisory Observation of an EFL Teacher’s Classroom in Turkey. In Gloria Park, Handoyo Puji Widodo and Andrzej Cirocki (Eds.), Observation of Teaching: Bridging Theory and Practice through Research on Teaching (157-174). Munich: Lincom Europa.
- Conference Publication (National) Özbilgin, A. 2010. Discourses shape foreign language learning and teaching: The story of a language institution. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2(2), 4305-4309. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Book Chapter (International) Özbilgin, A. 2010. Discourse and Literacy Practices at a Bilingual University in Turkey. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. Philadelphia: Routledge.
- Book Chapter Publication (International) Özbilgin, A. and Steve Neufeld. 2013. iCorpus: Making corpora meaningful for pre-service teacher education. In Julian Edge & Steve Mann (Eds.), Innovations in pre-service education and training for English Language Teachers (181-200). London: The British Council.
- Journal Publication (National) Özbilgin, A., Erkmen, B. & Karaman, A. C. (2016). English language teacher professional development: When institutional frameworks fall short, The Inonu University Journal of the Faculty of Education, 17(1), 55-65. DOI: 10.17679/iuefd.17152899
- Journal Publication (International) Akcan, S., Aydin, B., Karaman, A. C., Seferoğlu, G., Korkmazgil, S., Özbilgin, A., & Selvi, A. F. (2017). Qualities and qualifications of EFL professionals: What do Intensive English Program administrators think? TESOL Journal, 8(3), 675-699.
