4th International ELT Conference Issues,
challenges and solutions in the e-era
Hasan Kalyoncu University
ELT Department 28-29 May, 2021
KEYNOTE/INVITED SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Özcan Demirel
Prof. Dr. Özcan Demirel was born on 1 March 1943 at Sapanca, Adapazarı . He graduated from the Department of English Language Teaching, Gazi Teacher Training Institutein Ankara in 1964 and was a warded his PhD degreein Curriculumand Instruction in 1979. He worked at Hacettepe University for 36 years. He worked at several administrative positions such as department Chair, Assistant and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Education, University Senate Member. He retired from Hacettepe University in May 2016. At present, he continues teaching at the Faculty of Education, Cyprus International University. Prof. Demirel supervised 104 graduate theses on Curriculum Development and English Language Teaching. He has authored orco‐authored37booksand124articlespublished in both national and international books and journals. He worked in different educational projects of the WorldBank, UNESCO; UNICEF, European Union and the Council of Europe. Atpresent, heis the
president of Turkish Association of Curriculumand Instruction. Citations : 12 895 h – index: 46
Personel web page: http://www.ozcandemirel.com.tr
Prof. Dr. Birsen Tütüniş
Birsen Tütünis is a Professor currently teaching at Istanbul Kultur University. She has received her PhD from University of Sussex, UK. She has worked at several universities in Turkey holding positions as English instructor, senior lecturer and administrator. She has conducted research on a variety of topics like; Computer Assisted Language Learning, Language Learning Styles and Strategies, Teacher Education and Teacher Learning. Her recent interest lies on blended teaching and learning.
She has written articlesandbooksondifferentissuesrelatedtoTEFL.Shehasbeenawarded Ist. Kultur University Scientific Award –BILSAP, 2018. She contributed to the books “Learning Strategy Instruction in the Language Classroom” by Multilingual Matters and “Lessons from Good Language Teachers” by Cambridge University Press. She has been invited as a keynote speaker to international conferences like NTELT, ICRE, LIF, BETA, IATEFL,ALLT, TELLSI, KOTESOL. She has also been invited to national TV channels (Haberturk, CNNTurk) for interviews on foreign language learning. Prof. Tutunis has taken the role as the coordinator of Teacher Training and Education Committee (TTEd SIG) of IATEFL for several years. She is in the editorial board of the scientific journal “ELT Research Journal”. She is the Honorary Member of AzETA in Azerbaijan.
Invited Speakers
Assoc. Prof. Carol Griffiths
Carol Griffiths has been a teacher, manager, and teacher trainer of ELT for many years. She has taught in many places around the world, including New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan, China, North Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, and, where she currently works at the University of Leeds. She has presented at numerous conferences and published widely. Learner issues (for example individual differences, such as strategies, style, gender, age, culture, motivation, identity), teacher education and support (for example methodology, error correction, coping strategies), language issues (for example ELF, multilingualism), sociolinguistics, action research, and using literature to teach language are her major areas of research interest.
website: http://www. carolgriffiths.net
Email:carolgriffiths5@gmail.com
Dr. Mark Newbrook
Mark Newbrook completed a BA in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and did an MA and a PhD in linguistics at the University of Reading. He has worked many years as a lecturer and researcher in Contemporary English dialects, English in Southeast Asia, language variation and change, and dialectology in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. While in Australia,Markcombinedhis professional activities with his broad based interest in skepticism to become one of the few ‘skeptical linguists’ around; he was linguistics consultant to Australian Skeptics and now occupies similar roles in the equivalent British organisations. He has authored several books and many articles and reviews on various aspects of linguistics; and he has recently completed the first-ever general skeptical survey work on fringe linguistics. Email:morcusporcus@btinternet.com
Dr. Jerome C. Bush
Jerome C. Bush has a BA from St. Mary’s College, an MA in TESOL and an MBA from California State University, and a PhD in Corpus Linguistics from Yeditepe. He has worked as a professional educator and administratorformorethantwodecades. Currently he works as lecturer at MEF University,specialisingand undertaking research in vocabulary acquisition, INSET, reading, and learning strategies. Has authored many articles which have been published in ELT journals.
Email:jerrybush1@gmail.com
Dr. Clara Calia
Clara is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology in the School of Health in Social Science https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/clara-calia and a Fellow of the Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Insecurity and the Global Health Academy at the University of Edinburgh. Clara is a Clinical Psychologist who has been working as a researcher and clinician with a widerange of complex clinical problems working in multidisciplinary projects and in translational and applied research. Clara is currently working in international and interdisciplinary research team sex panding her orientation from a local to a global mental health perspective prioritising investigation of: 1. contextual risk factor sthrough partner ships with communities inruralareas of Malawi. The focus of my work has been on the conceptualization of mental health in Malawi; 2. tackle dementia globally ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31893025 ) 3. and working on projects focused Mental Health Food Insecurity among Syrian refugees. https://www.onehealthfieldnetwork.org/people . Clara’s clinical and research work is also characterized by a strong ethical commitment. She is the School Deputy Director of Research Ethics & Integrity in the School of Health in Social Science. Her commitment on ethics brough ther toleada project Ethics Integrity and Research Conductin Complex LMICs in order to define and establish the research culture for best practice throughastrongprocess of co-design and partnership in developing an ethics toolkit https://www.ethical-global-research.ed.ac.uk/ Together with 200 global researchers from morethan 30 countries we designed the ethics toolkit to informand support ethical choices in global research.
Dr. Cristóbal Guerra
Cristóbal Guerra: Psychologist, Master in Psychologyand Doctor in Psychotherapy. Clinical experience supportingchild and adolescents victims of interpersonal trauma inChile between 2001 and 2018. Member of the Center for Studiesin Childhood, Adolescence and Family of the NGO Paicabi and of the Center for research on work, family and citizenship “Cielo” of the Universidad Santo Tomas. Associate Professor of the School of Psychology of the Universidad SantoTomás, Chile. Research area in trauma, CBT and resilience.
Dr. Tom Parkinson
Tom is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Director ofthe MA and PGDip in Higher Education. His research focuses on global disparities in access toopportunity and resources in higher education, and in the relationship between higher education, society,the individual and the state. Tom is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has served as an external examiner or expert validator at University College London (UCL),Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), The University of Chichester and KM Conservatory, Chennai. Tom chairs the academic development steering group and regularly leads workshops for theCouncil for At Risk Academics (Cara) Syria Programme, which supports Syrian academics livingin exile in the Middle East. Tom’s background spans literature, music and education. He is interested in exploring interdisciplinary synergies and keen to collaboratewith like-minded colleagues from across the disciplinary spectrum.
Nidal Alajaj
Nidal is a Syrian academic studying for a PhD in HigherEducation at the University of Kent, UK. He has worked on some disciplinary and interdisciplinaryresearch studies which have been published in international journals. Before leaving his country,he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Higher Institute of Languages atAleppo University.
Assoc. Prof. Tarkan Gürbüz
Tarkan GÜRBÜZ is currently an Associate Professor at the department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology (CEIT) of Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. He is also a member of METU BILTIR Center Digital Transformation PlatformCoordination Committee, Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) Board of Directors, Turkey Informatics Association (TBD) Executive Industry Board and also serves as a member ofthe ScientificandAdvisoryBoardinsomeinstitutions.Heholdsa PhD degree from the department of CEIT, METU, an MSc diploma from the same department and university, and an MBA degree in International Business from MIB Trieste School of Management in Italy, and a BSc degree in Mathematics from METU. His are as of research interestin clude crowd sourcing for education, distance education, e-learning, knowledge management,innovativenextgenerationlearningenvironments,and digital transformation.
Prof. Cem Balçıkanlı
Cem Balçıkanlı works as professor in the ELT Department, Gazi Faculty of Education at Gazi University. He taught Turkish in the UniversityofFloridain2008asaFulbrightscholar.Hehasbeenthe editor in chief of the Journal of Language Learning and Teaching ( https://www.jltl.org/ ) since 2011. His professional interests include learner/teacher autonomy, the role of technology in language learning/teaching, teaching Turkish as a second language, second language teacher education. He has widely published in ELT journals and presented in international conferences around the globe.
Assoc. Prof. Nurdan Özbek Gürbüz
Nurdan GÜRBÜZ is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language Teaching at METU, Ankara. Her areas of interest include teaching Conversational English, Assessment of Speaking Skill, and Intercultural Awareness in Foreign Language Education. Her work has been published in various national and international journals.