UKU-Prof.Dr.Emre-Debreli

Prof. Dr. EMRE DEBRELİ

School of Foreign Languages

Position Director
E-mail edebreli@ciu.edu.tr
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
  • University of Reading TEFL (PhD, 2013)
  • University of Essex TEFL (Master, 2008)
  • Eastern Mediterranean University ELT (Undergraduate, 2006)
Publications

Articles published in peer reviewed international journals (SCI,SSCI,Arts and Humanities)

  • Assessing Tertiary Turkish EFL Learners’ Pragmatic Competence Regarding Speech Acts and Conversational Implicatures - 2023
  • A study of literacy teaching in state primary schools of Northern Cyprus: literally critical? - 2021
  • Teacher shadowing as an empowering technique for EFL student teacher practical knowledge development: insights from three-week shadowing programmes. - 2019
  • Foreign language classroom management: types of student misbehavior and strategies adapted by the teachers in handling disruptive behavior. Cogent Education - 2019

Articles published in National journals

  • Re-culturing or de-culturing our classes? The integration of the target culture into EFL classrooms - 2021
  • Arts-based research and the artistic and creative role of artifacts as stories in literacy practices - 2017
  • Fostering creative and critical literacy skills in children’s multimodal literacy practices - 2017
  • A review of research into the effects of teaching pedagogy: controversies in the area. - 2013

Articles published in other peer reviewed international journals

  • Machine translation in the language classroom: Turkish EFL learners and instructors’ perceptions and attitudes regarding the use of online machine translation tools. - 2021
  • Use of children’s popular culture in literacy curricula: an analysis of the papers by Parry (2002) and Dickie and Shuker (2014) through the lenses of ‘no research can be value laden’. - 2018
  • Use of humour in language classes: an effective ‘filter’ or affective filter? Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies - 2018
  • The Influence of Educational Programme on Teachers’ Error Correction Preferences in the Speaking Skill: Insights from English as a Foreign Language Context - 2016
  • Pre-service teachers’ belief change and practical knowledge development during the course of practicum - 2016
  • Perceptions of the Non-native EFL Teachers on L1 Use in L2 Classrooms: Implications for Language Program Development - 2016
  • Pre-service teachers’ belief sources about learning and teaching: an exploration with the consideration of the educational programme nature - 2016
  • Students’ Preferences on the Use of Mother Tongue in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms: Is it the Time to Re-examine English-only Policies? - 2015

Papers presented in international conferences and printed as proceedings

  • University ELT teachers’ conceptions of and attitudes towards research - 2021
  • Assessment of learning and teaching during Covid-19 via online platforms through the eyes of EFL teachers: how realistic is it? - 2021
  • Pre-service teachers’ shadowing experience: insights from the practicum - 2019
  • Another brick in the wall’ view of teaching English - 2019
  • Teachers’ perceptions towards L1 use in EFL classrooms: do the proposed perceptions and actual classroom practice match? - 2018
  • Demotivation in foreign language learning: insights from an EFL context - 2018
  • Re-culturing or de-culturing our classes? The integration of the target culture into EFL classrooms - 2018
  • Change in beliefs of pre-service teachers about teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language throughout an undergraduate pre-service teacher training programme. - 2012
  • Use of diaries to investigate and track pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language throughout a pre-service training programme. - 2011

Books and books chapters published internationally

  • Practice-based Professional development in ELT - 2020
  • Critical pedagogy in ELT: redunderstanding the teacher roles. - 2019
Thesis Supervision

Master Thesis Supervised

  • A study on the impact of environment on the performance of secondary school students in English language n the Northwest region of Cameroon. - 2024
  • The link between motivation and informational social influence theory for using language apps. - 2024
  • Can online teaching / learning completely replace face-to-face learning / teaching in ESL/EFL classrooms? Post-pandemic view. - 2024
  • The perceptions of EFL teachers and students’ on the use of L1 - 2024
  • Exploration of how ELT students use smartphones for language learning purposes. - 2023
  • The utilization of Instagram as a MALL tool to improve EFL learners’ vocabulary size. - 2021
  • Effectiveness of stream of consciousness on writing skill: EFL teachers’ views’. - 2020
  • Educational Psychology: EFL teachers’ motivation and motivational strategies used in their classrooms’ - 2020
  • Testing effect as a consequence of autonomy, study habits and cramming in Turkish universities prep-school context - 2019
  • EFL teachers’ perceptions towards demotivated language learners’ - 2019
  • English learners and instructors’ perceptions, attitudes and beliefs regarding the use of online machine translation tools - 2019
  • Transmission or transformation?: Exploring teacher roles at a higher education context through the lens of critical pedagogy. - 2019
  • What role does ‘research’ play in language teaching? Attitudes of ELT teachers, administrators and teacher trainers towards teacher research engagement at a university in northern Cyprus - 2019
  • An evaluation on implementing reflective teaching practice as a means of professional development: fostering EFL teachers’ craft knowledge. - 2018
  • Challenges faced by pre-service ELT student teachers during the teaching practicum. - 2018
  • The role of peer observation in professional development’ - 2018
  • Foreign language classroom management: types of student misbehavior and strategies adapted by the teachers in handling distruptive behaviour’ - 2017
  • Perceptions of the teachers and the students about the effectiveness of using audio-visual teaching materials in teaching and learning of English at the preparatory schools of Shaqlawa district’ - 2016
  • Perceptions of EFL students on the use of audio-visual materials in language classrooms: a study on EFL curriculum development - 2016
  • Turkish teachers’ and students’ perceptions towards corrective feedback in the writing skill’ - 2015
  • Turkish Cypriot EFL teachers’ preferences and practices of correction techniques of pronunciation mistakes’ - 2015
  • Sources and levels of foreign language anxiety of EFL Turkish university students relative to language proficiency and gender’ - 2015
  • A comparative study of error analysis of Turkish EFL learners in universities - 2014
  • Change in the perceptions of pre-service teachers as a result of the difficulties they faced during ELT practicum’ - 2014
  • Pre-service teachers’ shadowing experience: insights from the practicum’ - 2014

Doctorate Thesis Supervised

  • Research into pragmatic competence in EFL context: intercultural influence on the use of English as a foreign language’. - 2023
Research Areas
  • Language teacher cognition; professional development; technology in education
Administrative Duties
  • Director of the School of Foreign Languages (2022-ONGOING)
  • Member of CIU Senate (2022-ONGOING)
  • Member of CIU Executive Board (2022-ONGOING)
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences Acting Dean (2023-ONGOING)