Boğaziçi University is one of the six organizations participating in the ENRICH Project. It is a leading state university in Turkey, with a 153 year history and a strong tradition of international collaborations. The Department of Foreign Language Education of the Boğaziçi University is one of the most well-known and popular departments across the country. It offers a B.A. programme in English Language Education and graduate programmes leading to M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the same field. The objective of these programs is to equip the students with advanced and specialized knowledge in the field and to help them acquire skills for actual classroom practice and effective research, as regards undergraduates and postgraduates, respectively. A well-balanced emphasis on theory and application is therefore maintained throughout the programmes.

Yasemin Bayyurt This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Yasemin Bayyurt, lead ENRICH Parner, is a full professor of Applied Linguistics at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. She holds a PhD degree in English Linguistics from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Her current research on English and English language teaching/learning focuses on ELF-awareness in English language teaching/learning; EMI in higher education; and CLIL in K12 schools. She also carries out research projects on blended/mobile learning in higher education programs; and meta-discourse in academic writing from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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Feza Kerestecioğlu This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Feza Kerestecioğlu, ENRICH Researcher, holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical-Electronics Engineering and a PhD degree in Control Systems. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Kadir Has University where he served as the Acting Dean, Head of the Departments of Electronics Engineering and Computer Engineering at different intervals. He authored many publications on control systems, change detection, input design, swarm robotics and blended learning and English-medium-instruction.

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Işıl Erduyan This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Işıl Erduyan, ENRICH Researcher, is an assistant professor at Bogazici University, Department of Foreign Language Education. Her research focus includes multilingualism, linguistic identity construction, and interaction analysis. She publishes in various peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of “Multilingual Construction of Identity: German-Turkish Adolescents at School”.

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Sezen Bektaş This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Sezen Bektaş, ENRICH Researcher, holds BA and MA degrees in English Language Teaching, at Boğaziçi University, Department of Foreign Language Education. She is currently a second-year PhD student and works as a research assistant at the same department. Her research interests include child/adult second language acquisition, L1/L2 reading development, multilingualism, and multilingual literacies.

Hakan Şentürk This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Hakan Şentürk, ENRICH Researcher, holds a BA and MA degree in English Language Teaching and is a PhD student at Boğaziçi University. In 1999, he started teaching at the English Preparatory School, Yeditepe University. Currently, he works as an editor and advisor at the Writing Center at Yeditepe University and teaches ELT students at Yeditepe University Faculty of Education.