Prof. Dr. EMRE DEBRELİ
School of Foreign Languages
Position
Director
E-mail
edebreli@ciu.edu.tr
Telephone number
+90 392 671 11 11
Extension
2500
Office
Other information
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)