I work as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University at Ankara where I mainly teach research methods, linguistics, language skills and language teaching methodology courses as well as practicum. You can reach my course outlines from the TEACHING link.

I hold a PhD in Foreign Language Education. My academic interests mainly lie within the domains of cross-cultural (im)politeness research, corpus linguistics, intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and the teaching of English and Turkish as a foreign language. For a more detailed account of my academic activities please go to the RESEARCH link above.

The RESOURCES link will take you to a collection of materials I have used while teaching comparative Turkish culture and language classes in the USA as a Fulbright Scholar and/or during training seminars I gave to outgoing FLTA's of Turkish.