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” (2022) (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.