Academic Staff
Dr. Mustafa Kerem KOBUL
Head of Department, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Assist. Prof. Dr., Department of English Translation and Interpreting
Education: Ph.D, 2017. Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Batı Dilleri ve Edebiyatı (İngilizce) Doktora Programı.
Research Interests:Foreign Language Education, Reading in a Foreign Language, Individual Differences in Foreign Language Learning, Cognitive Processes in Foreign Language Learning, Translation Studies, Translation Theories
Selected Studies: Textbook evaluation in foreign language teaching: A case study of ‘Easy English’ (2005) for her Master’s Thesis. She prepared her PhD Thesis titled “A comparative study on the comprehension levels of field-dependent and field-independent EFL learners of English in assisted and unaided reading and their attitudes towards assisted reading” (2017) at Karadeniz Technical University, Western Languages and Literature (English) PhD Program. “Socioeconomic Status Influences Turkish Digital Natives’ Internet Use Habitus” (2023) (SSCI), “Investigation of Educators’ Reading Behaviors and Motivations in the Covid-19 Pandemic Process in Terms of Various Variables” (2022), “Is Geography Destiny? Family and Social Stratum Factors in Language Development of Children” (2022), “Family, Environment, Culture and Language Acquisition from Prenatal Period to Adulthood” (2022), “An Overview of Introductory Text Translations of Cultural Assets of Samsun İlkadim District in the Context of Language, Culture and Tourism” (2021), “Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety of Non-Native Pre-Service and In-Service EFL Teachers” (2020), “Mobile Learning Readiness Level of Turkish EFL Undergraduate Students and its Relationship with Academic Achievement and Certain Ses Variables” (2018), Learner Perspectives on Mobile Phone Integration for Vocabulary Development in Translation Classes (2017), “Language Shift and Maintenance in a Diglossia Environment with Its Educational Implications: A Case Study” (2016), “Prospective Teacher Concerns: A Comparative Study of Departments of English Language Teaching and Language and Literature” (2013), “Clinical Supervision: A Viable Option for Language Teacher Development” (2012), “Book Review. Aspects of culture in second language acquisiton and foreign language learning” (2012) are among his internationally published works.
Office: Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, A217-2
[email protected]
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1544
Office Hours: Wednesday 13.00-17.00 (Zoom)
Dr. Mustafa YILDIZ
Vice Head of Department, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Applied Linguistics, Vocabulary Studies
Educational Background: Ph.D, English Language Teaching, Anadolu University (2018)
Selected Works: Idiosyncratic development of receptive and free active vocabulary: To what extent do essay types and receptive vocabulary contribute to the lexical richness?, 2022; The factors causing English speaking anxiety on non-English major academics while using English as a medium of instruction, 2021; Contrastive interlanguage analysis of evidentiality in PhD dissertations, 2021; Conflicting Nature of Social-Pragmatic Cues with Mutual Exclusivity Regarding Three-Year-Olds’ Label-Referent Mappings, 2020; Teaching Grammar through Task-Based Language Teaching to Young EFL Learners, 2017; A corpus-based investigation of dative alternation in use of the verbs ‘give’ and ‘send’: A sample of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), 2017; A Cross-Linguistic Inquiry into the Potential Reasons for the Avoidance of English Phrasal Verbs: The Case of Turkish and Norwegian EFL Learners, 2016; Contrastive analysis of Turkish and English in Turkish EFL learners’ spoken discourse, 2016.
Contact Details
Office: Foreign Languages Department, 4th Floor
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Monday 15.00 -16.30
Zoom Meeting ID: 2054 2054 09
Password: 129955
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7971-5847
Zuhal KARDEŞLER
Vice Head of Department, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Applied Linguistics, Education of Gifted Students, English for Special Purposes (ESP), TUBITAK Research Projects Competitions (Sociology), and Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships.
Education: PhD- Ondokuz Mayıs University
About: She received her degree in English Language Teaching from Gazi University in 2004. Then, in 2010, she completed her master’s degree from the Department of Western Languages and Literature, Applied Linguistics Program at Karadeniz Technical University. Her thesis was named “The Effects of Humanistic Activities on the Affective Domain of the Learners in English Language Classes.” She worked as an English instructor at numerous institutions affiliated with the Ministry of National Education between 2005 and 2019. The Foreign Languages Department of Samsun University recruited her as a lecturer in 2019. She continues her education (PhD) in the English Language Education Department at Ondokuz Mayıs University. She keeps up with her academic pursuits and publishes on both national and international stages.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A- 4. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Tuesday, 15.00-17.00
Zoom Meeting ID: 529 857 5978
Password: 294020
Websites
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c3zN7iMAAAAJ&hl=trhttps://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/searchResultviewListAuthor.jsp
https://independent.academia.edu/ZKardeşler
ORCID: 0000-0003-2101-9213
Arzu Akkaya
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Educational administration, Education policies, Sociology of education, Migration and education, Higher education studies, Inclusive education.
Education: Ph.D-c, Yıldız Technical University
About: After graduating from the Faculty of Education, METU in 2016, Arzu Akkaya received her master’s degree from the Istanbul University Educational Administration program. She continues her doctoral studies at Yıldız Technical University, Educational Administration program. Her areas of interest and research include educational policies and sociology of education. Some of her studies and articles are “The Relationship Between School Principals’ Perceived Transformational Leadership Behavior and Teachers’ Motivation” (2020), “The Investigation of the Relationship Between Academics’ Person-Organization Fit and Burnout Levels” (2020), “The Out of Border Education: Inclusion of Syrian Refugees into Higher Education” (2021), “Meritocracy at Higher Education Management: Academics’ Perceptions” (2021). The Value of Human Resources (2020), Education Policy and Demographic Change (2021), and Foreign Expert Reports in the Turkish Educational Policy in the Republican Era (2021) are among the book chapters of which she is one of the authors.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – A Blok 3. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Tuesday 10.40-12.10
Websites
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=yjPhLPAAAAAJ&hl=tr&oi=ao
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arzu-Akkaya
ORCID: 0000-0001-6400-7349
Dr. Kevser Ateş
Academic, Department of Foreign Languages
Education: PhD 2019, Erciyes University, Kayseri
Postdoctoral fellow 2022, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Research Interests: Postmodernism; postmodern culture; ecocriticism; ecofeminism; feminism; postmodern ecology; consumerist culture; hyperreality; contemporary novel; science fiction; post-apocalyptic fiction; posthumanism; contemporary women novelists; literature and film.
Selected Works: M.A thesis: “Magic Realism and its Application to The Passion by Jeanette Winterson and Wise Children by Angela Carter”
PhD dissertation: “Postmodern Ecology in The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Year of The Flood by Margaret Atwood and The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson”
Published Papers: Lucy’s Quest for Self-discovery (2015), Female Voice Raised Against Patriarchal System in Angela Carter’s Wise Children (2017), The Immortal Birds in Ode to a Nightingale and Sailing to Byzantium (2017), “You’re on Earth, There’s No Cure for That!”: The Dystopian Future of Nature in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (2018).
Paper Presentation: The Representation of Women in Medieval Period in the Man of Law’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue (2017) and Women and Nature as Enemies: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Perspective on Wide Sargasso Sea (2019).
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Office: Canik Campus, Block A- 2. floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055/1523
Office hours: Wednesday 15:00-17:00
Zoom Meeting ID: 885 447 4341
Password: 171797
Website:
https://ozgecmis.yok.gov.tr/login#L2tpc2lzZWxCaWxnaWxlcg==
Serap Özge Aygül
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: MALL, CALL, Academic Writing
Education: Ph.D-c, Hacettepe University
About: After graduating from Faculty of Education, METU in 2010, and receiving her master’s degree from METU, English Language Teaching program, Serap Özge Aygül continues her doctoral studies at Hacettepe University, English Language Teaching program. Her areas of interest and research include MALL, CALL, and academic writing.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A- 4. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Thursday 12.15-14.15
Zoom Meeting ID: 593 751 5891
Password: 1548296
Websites
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=87dJJKcAAAAJ&hl=tr
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
ORCID: 0000-0002-8597-4984
Büşra İLGÖR
Coordinator of Civil Aviation School, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Curriculum, Instruction, Teacher Education, Educational Technology, ELT
Education: Ph.D-c, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
About: Büşra İLGÖR graduated from Ondokuz Mayıs University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Program in 2016. She received her master’s degree from Bursa Uludağ University English Language Teaching program. She continues her doctoral studies at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Curriculum and Instruction program. She worked as an English Teacher in a high school for the Ministry of National Education between 2017-2018. She started to work as an instructor at Samsun University, Department of Foreign Languages in 2019. Her areas of interest and research include curriculum, educational technologies, educational philosophy, learning and teaching theories and processes, and teacher education. She prepared the Master’s Thesis “The relationship between English teachers’ professional identity perceptions and self-efficacy beliefs”(2019). Some of her studies and articles are “English Language Needs of Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Students” (2019), “The Purposes Of Elt Students’ Use Of The Internet” Müfit Şenel, Büşra İlgör (2017), Exploring 4th Grade ELT Students’ Professional Identity Formation through the Perspectives of Critical Incidents Büşra İlgör, Müfit Şenel (2020).
Contact Information
Office: Civil Aviation School / 2nd Floor / 226
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 |
Office Hours: Thursday 10:00-12:00
Zoom Meeting ID: 436 384 5921
Password: 522719
Websites
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=LMKTw7gAAAAJ&hl=tr
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Buesra-Ilgoer-2
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/@busrailgor
https://independent.academia.edu/BİLGÖR
ORCID: 0000-0002-5648-44
İrem KELEŞOĞLU
Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: English Literature and Literary Theories, English Language Teaching, Contemporary Approaches in Language Teaching
Education: MA, Yeditepe University
About: İrem Keleşoğlu graduated from İstanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Science and Letters, English and Literature program in 2010. She graduated from Yeditepe University, Social Sciences Institute, English Language and Literature Master’s program with the thesis titled A Critical Approach To Aldous Huxley’s Treatment Of The Concepts Of Utopia and Dystopia In His Brave New World and Island: A Cultural Materialist Study in 2013. She worked for İstanbul Kültür University as a Research Assistant in the department of English Language and Literature from 2012 to 2014. Then, between the years 2014 and 2017, she worked in the headquarters of Pegasus Airlines as a Quality Assurance Specialist in the Directorate of Safety Management and Quality Department. From 2017 to 2021, she worked as an instructor in the School of Foreign Languages at Maltepe University, İstanbul. Since 2021, she has been working as an instructor at Samsun University, Foreign Languages Department. Her interests and research fields include English Language teaching, modern approaches in English language teaching, using technology in foreign language teaching, academic writing and reading skills, Professional English (Aviation English), literature, literary theories, the concepts of utopia and dystopia in literature.
Contact Information
Office: School of Civil Aviation -2nd Floor (Room no: 226)
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055
Office Hours: Thursday 09.00-10.30
Zoom Meeting ID: 885 7200 3014
Password: Ed1nFP
ORCID: 0000-0001-7716-0115
Utku Kurtoğlu
Vice-Principal of Department, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: English language teaching, vocabulary teaching, technology integration into education
Education: Ph.D – Atatürk University
About: After graduating from Anadolu University English Language Teaching Department in 2017, Utku KURTOĞLU graduated from Trakya University Institute of Social Sciences English Language Education master’s program with thesis in 2021 entitled “Vocabulary teaching through Web 2.0 tools: A comparison of Kahoot! and Quizlet. As of 2021, he has been working as a lecturer at Samsun University, Department of Foreign Languages. As of 2022, he continues his education in Atatürk University Institute of Educational Sciences English Education doctoral program.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A 4th Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Friday 12.00-14.00
Zoom Meeting ID: 975 310 5857
Password: PqQ9XK
Websites
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vnk2ysIAAAAJ&hl=tr&authuser=1
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Utku-Kurtoglu
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://trakya.academia.edu/UtkuKurto%C4%9Flu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9782-9736
Yeşim ÖZTÜRK
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: English Language and Literature, British theatre, Post dramatic theatre, In-yer-face theatre, Adaptation
Education: MA, Ordu University
About: After graduating from Boğaziçi University English Language and Literature Department in 2016, she worked as a lecturer at Giresun University School of Foreign Languages between the years 2017-2022. Yeşim ÖZTÜRK had her master’s degree from Ordu University English Language and Literature department in 2021 with a thesis entitled “An Examination of The Reflection of Adaptation Theory In Mark Ravenhill’s Handbag on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest”. As of 2022, he has been working as a lecturer at Samsun University, Department of Foreign Languages.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A- 4. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Tuesday 09.00-10.30
Zoom Meeting ID: 845 470 5271
Password: SAMU123
Websites
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=new_profile&hl=en&authuser=1
https://yoksis.yok.gov.tr/menu/menu.zul
ORCID: 0000-0003-1462-2145
Zekiye SEİS
English Lecturer, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Vocabulary learning and teaching, Second Language Teacher Education, English Teacher Self-Efficacy, English Teacher Burnout, Comparative studies between Turkish and English in different contexts, Linguistics, Translation studies, Teaching Turkish to Foreigners.
Education: Ph.D-c, Anadolu University
About: Zekiye SEİS completed English Language Teaching Undergraduate Program at Anadolu University and her master’s degree in English Language Teaching at Istanbul Maltepe University. She is currently going on her Ph.D. in English Education program at Anadolu University. She did research on” Language Awareness and Deixis (Linguistics) and presented it in Ejer Congress, Ankara University (2019). She was also invited to 1st International Conference on Leadership, Sdg’s Under Multi-Academic Discipline Approach (Pakistan) as a key-note speaker and presented “The Efficacy Of Technology Used In English Language Learning and Teaching In The 21st Century” (February, 2022).
Contact Information
Office: Office: School of Civil Aviation -2nd Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Thursday 12.00-13.30
Zoom Meeting ID: 903 853 4116
Password: 536873
Websites
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://independent.academia.edu/ZSE%C4%B0S
https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/@zekiye.seis
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=zekiye+seis&btnG=&oq=zekiye+seis
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zekiye-Seis
ORCID: 0000-0003-4773-2607
Ünal Süeroğlu
Coordinator of Preparatory School, Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Criminology, sociolinguistics, socialization, working memory in SLA, mentorship in in-service teacher education, gamification in education, educational technologies, cultural capital, post-constructivist theories, gender, vocational identity construction.
Education: Ph.D-c, Bahçeşehir University
About: Undergraduate degree at Hacettepe University English Linguistics. Master’s degree at Hacettepe University Sociology. His master’s thesis was on the discovery of female football players’ gender identity construction from the aspect of Borudieu’s cultural capital, investment and habitus phenomena. He was an ERASMUS student at the University of Milan Bicocca in 2009. During his 17 year long career, he worked at tertiary level and in the private sector in a variety of roles and titles ranging from academic coordinator to exam developer. He has been an academic at Samsun University’s Foreign Languages Department since 2020. Among his publications is “Profiling Property Criminals”, in an SSCI Journal. As part of his Ph.D. education at Bahçeşehir University ELT, he is carrying out studies on working memory (WM), cognition, mentorship in in-service teacher education, vocational identity construction, educational technologies in SLA, gamification, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A- 4. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Wednesday 10.45-12.15
Zoom Meeting ID: 479 301 5281
Password: 270427
Websites
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bRfW4SMAAAAJ&hl=en
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-9544-2455
ORCID: 0000-0002-9544-2455
Kübra Taşkara
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: English-medium instruction, teaching language skills
Education: Ph.D, Ondokuz Mayıs University (in progress)
About: After graduating from the Faculty of Education of Ondokuz Mayıs University in 2016, Kübra Taşkara received her master’s degree in the English Language Teaching program at Kocaeli University. She continues her doctoral studies in the English Language Education program at Ondokuz Mayıs University. “A computational investigation of English-medium instruction lecturers’ verbal classroom discourses: A comparison of Turkish and international context” (2021), “Indirect and direct written corrective feedback as an error correction strategy: EFL learners’ preferences and developments on language accuracy in Turkey context” (2020) are among her studies and articles.
Contact Information
Office: Foreign Languages Department – Block A- 4. Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Thursday 15.00-17.00
Zoom Meeting ID: 605 603 1368
Password: 19
Websites
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PtA6JbwAAAAJ&hl=tr&oi=ao
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
Tuğba ÜNAL
Foreign Languages Department
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Mindfulness, Language Acquisition, Educational Psychology, Technology Integration into English Language Teaching, Vocabulary Teaching, NLP
Education: Ph.D student, Ondokuz Mayıs University
About: After graduating from Faculty of Education, Gazi University in 2008, Tuğba Ünal received her master’s degree from Ufuk University, Department of English Language Education. She continues her doctoral studies at Ondokuz Mayıs University, Department of English Language Education. Some of her studies and articles are “The Effectiveness of Task Based Instruction in Improving Students’ Writing and Speaking Skills (2016), “Impact of Mindfulness Training on EFL Learners’ Willingness to Speak, Speaking Anxiety Levels and Mindfulness Awareness Levels” (2022).
Contact Information
Office: Civil Aviation High School Ballıca Campus Floor 2
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
Office Hours: Friday 12.30-14.30
Zoom Meeting ID: 959 4037 6182
Password: 989513
Websites:
https://yoksis.yok.gov.tr/menu/menu.zul
ORCID: 0000-0001-7128-8951
Emine ÖZTAŞ
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Technology Assisted Language Learning, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Mobile Assisted Language Learning, Traditional Face-to-face Learning, Online Learning, Blended/Hybrid Learning, Vocational/Academic English, Translation Studies, Academic Writing, Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language.
Education: MA, Çağ University, English Language Teaching (2022); BA, Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University, English Language Teaching (2008).
Selected Studies: “Turkish Students’ Perception of English as a Foreign Language and Blended Learning in the Context of Higher Education” (2022). Master Thesis.
Contact Information:
Office: Foreign Languages Department, Block A 4th Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
E-mail: [email protected]
Office hours: Friday 12.30-14.00
Zoom Meeting ID: 619 745 9597
Password: 195055
Websites:
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8381-0492
Azime ÇERTEL
Academic, Foreign Languages Department
Research Interests: Speech act theory, Use of speech acts in computer mediated communication, Discourse analysis, Language acquisition, Vocabulary learning and teaching strategies, English for special purposes
Education: Post-graduate (Hacettepe University, MA)
Selected Studies: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Turkish and American English Electronic Complaints: The Case Study of Amazon Website (2023, Master’s Thesis)
Contact Information:
Office: Foreign Languages Department, Block A 4th Floor
Tel: +90 (362) 313 0055 | 1602
E-mail: [email protected]
Office Hours: Thursday 13.10- 14.40
Zoom Meeting ID: 667 859 4441
Password: j62H3t
WEBSITES
https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Azime-Certel
ORCID: 0000-0002-8805-0023