Academic Staff

Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahar Gün received her BA in ELT from the Education Faculty, Anadolu University in 1989; her MA from the MA TEFL Program at Bilkent University in 1991, and her PhD in ELT from Anadolu University in 1998. She is in charge of in-service teacher training and teacher development programs at SFL. Her research interests include EFL teacher education in general, and teacher cognition and reflective teaching and learning in particular.

Working at Izmir University of Economics, School of Foreign Languages since 2008, Nesrin Oruç Ertürk has earned her PhD degree from Anadolu University in 2007, assigned as an Assoc. Prof. Dr. in 2014 and appointed as Prof. Dr. in 2019. She has worked as the Undergraduate English Program Coordinator between 2011 and 2015. In 2003, she got a one-year Fulbright Scholarship to work as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at the State University of New York (SUNY), at Binghamton, New York, USA. Between 2005 and 2008 she worked at Dokuz Eylül University, Buca Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department. Since 2015, she has been assigned as the director of the EKOSEM (İzmir University of Economics, Continuing Education Center) and is a member of the Executive Board of TUSEM (Türkiye Sürekli Eğitim Merkezleri Konseyi). Teaching as an adjunct Professor for University of Maryland since 2008, Prof. Oruç Ertürk has taught many hybrid and live stream classes. She has certificates from University of Maryland University College on WebTycho Online Teaching (2009), TESOL Online Professional Development Program “The Basics of Online Instruction” and “Advance Course of Online Teaching” (2001). She is among the Academic delegate of Turkish Educational Sciences Journal (2008), Member of Editorial Board of Journal of International Social Research (2010), and Member of Board of Reviewers of Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Journal (TESL-EJ) since 2011. She has articles published in both national and international journals and has attended numerous conferences.

She received her BA degree in ELT from Anadolu Üniversity in 1991. In 1995, she completed her MA at Bilkent University. She received her PhD in ELT from Anadolu University in 1999. Since 2003, she has been working at İzmir University of Economics, 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.

Donald Staub is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the School of Foreign Languages at Izmir University of Economics in Izmir, Turkey. He also served for four years as the coordinator of the Quality Assurance Unit within the School of Foreign Languages at Isik University (Istanbul), where he served as the chair for the SFL’s two accreditation applications. Donald has a doctorate in Educational Leadership from Eastern Michigan University (EMU), and an MA (TESOL) and BA (Literature) from Michigan State University. Dr. Staub is a trained CEA reviewer and has significant accreditation experience in working with institutions that have been accredited by NCA, SACS, and CAEP. His primary research interests lie in EFL quality assurance, student retention, and delivery of English medium instruction, and he has recent book chapters on quality assurance in EFL programs as well as quality assurance in ESP programs. He is currently editing a book (Springer, 2019) that explores quality assurance and accreditation in foreign language programs.

Asst. Prof. Esin Caglayan graduated from Bogazici University, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language Teaching. After graduation she worked in several schools as an English Language teacher and head of department. She joined Izmir University of Economics, School of Foreign Languages in 2002. She worked as a Level Coordinator between 2003 and 2009, as Head of Testing Unit between 2009 and 2014 and as the Head of Preparatory Programs between 2015-2020. She obtained her Teacher Trainer Certificate from British Council in 2006. She received her MA degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Dokuz Eylul University in 2008 and her Ph.D. degree in the same program in 2014. Asst. Prof. Esin Caglayan has been working at Izmir University of Economics as Director of Teaching and Learning Center Research and Application Center (EKOEĞİTİM-TLC) since 2015. Her academic interests are assessment and evaluation, educational technologies, instructional design, learning analytics and organizational behavior.

Assc. Prof. Dr. Evrim Üstünlüoğlu received her BA in ELT from the Education Faculty, Dokuz Eylül University in 1983; her MA from the MA TEFL Program at Bilkent University in 1992, and her PhD in Educational Sciences from Marmara University in 1998. She was promoted as an associate professor in the field of educational sciences, program development. She worked as a Director of School of Foreign Languages (SFL) between the years 0f 2004-2018. Currently, she has been conducting her research, and teaching as a faculty member. Her research interests include methodology, program development and EFL teacher education in general.