by H. Zeynep Can I remember the night in 2019 I had to fill out the university preference form. It was the last day to submit preferences so that ÖSYM could hopefully place me in one of my preferred universities. Well, I only had one in my mind. I was not in a language class…
by Eda Yıldırımer Hello! I got quite excited when Yasemin Hocam asked me if I would like to share my experiences regarding my journey of being an MA student at two different universities located on two different continents and my teaching assistantship, and of course, I would lovee to!! I hope to make this entry…
My name is Furkan Kır and I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Washington. This post is about my experiences as a student and instructor here at UW along with some information about Ph.D. programs in the US in general. I will not get into the details of how…
by Hilal Yıldırım Gündoğdu (hilal.yildirim@metu.edu.tr) In this text, I would like to tell you about my academic journey in linguistics which my friends who are relatively at the earlier stages of this journey can relate to their own life. I believe and hope that my experiences and way of looking at searching for and finding…
Ayşenur KILIÇ graduated from Middle East Technical University in 2015 and she has been working as an English teacher for four years. Her teaching experience officially started in a small village in Kars and she worked there for two years with secondary school students. Kars is a very small city in Eastern Turkey and it’s…
Hi readers and bloggers and teachers! If you still don’t know anything about CELTA, please read this post carefully because this is a great chance to start to think of having a CELTA Certificate. I myself had the opportunity to attend a 1-month intensive CELTA course within the body of International House in London. You…
by Yasemin Tezgiden On TED University English Language School Notes from YEŞİM ERASLAN’s TALK Yeşim Eraslan is the founding director of English Language School at TED University. She received her BA in English Language and Literature from Hacettepe University. For a couple of years, she worked at dershanes in Turkey. After she started teaching, she…
OYP is a program that educates future academicians in good universities for employment in developing universities, and it offers many academic and financial advantages. First of all, with a high GPA, ALES score and YDS score, you can begin your career and job just after you graduate. While you are doing your MA/ PhD (academic…
OYP (in Turkish: Öğretim Üyesi Yetiştirme Programı) is a very reasonable system if you want to be a research assistant at a random university. You can choose these “random” universities while you are applying to OYP program based on your OYP score. The universities are random because nobody knows which universities will be on the application…
by Zeynep Ceyhan, METU FLE 2013 Hi everyone! I am a graduate of METU FLE and I have been working as an English teacher in a language school in Kocaeli since September, 2013. I want to share my experiences and feelings about that. When I entered the class first day, I was so nervous and…
Learning to Teach English 