Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

I hold an MA in English Studies (TEFL & Linguistics) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, graduating with distinction (Grade: 1.09), and a BA (Hons) in English Language & Literature from Ege University, Turkey. With CELTA and DELTA qualifications, I bring over 17 years of experience as an EAP & ESL instructor, exam writer, materials and course designer, CELTA trainer, and Academic Manager at the tertiary level. My extensive experience in language teaching, course development, coordination, and teacher training has shaped my research interests, allowing me to approach language and linguistic research with a well-rounded teacher-scholar perspective.

I am currently working on my PhD project which brings learner corpora and digital methods together as a way to learn and teach English from early ages on. My interdisciplinary project, which is funded by DAAD, employs principles of second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, teacher training and multimodality in digital tools. I am also involved in several other research projects including the PROCEED (PROcess Corpus of English in EDucation) project, where I focus on L2 writing processes. 

Research Interests

Research, Projects and Collaborations

• Bridging the Data-Driven Learning Gap for Young ESL Learners, ongoing PhD project
• PROCEED (PROcess Corpus of English in EDucation), Researcher, ongoing
• Learner Corpus Metadata Schema Working Group Member led by UCLouvain, CLARIN and Eurac Research, ongoing
• AI in Education at Oxford University (AIEOU), Academic Partner, ongoing
• Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference 2025 (LCRGrad25), Chair, to be held in October 2025
• Language in Fantastic Film Worlds: Exploring Fictional Telecinematic Discourse, Local Organizer, to be held in March 2026
• Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Language Programs- EAQUALS Accreditation, Academic Director, Boğaziçi University, 2022-2024
• Curriculum Renewal of English Language Program: Backward Curriculum Design of CEFR-based Curriculum and Materials, Project Manager, Boğaziçi University, 2022-2024
• Institutional Professional Development and Systems Design, Project Manager, Boğaziçi University, 2022-2024
• Three-step Needs Analysis for Language Learning and Teaching Design, Research Leader, Boğaziçi University, 2022
• Research leading to MA Thesis: The Interface between the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and Processability Theory, Empirical Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), 2018-2019
• TED Talks Corpora and Academic Word List, LMU, 2018-2019
• Contrastive Research on Motion Verbs in English, Turkish and Romanian, LMU, 2017-2018
• English Compounds and their Spelling, LMU, 2017-2018

Grants

DAAD Research Grants – Doctoral Project, 2024-2028

Teaching at EDL

Memberships