Event Speakers
Duygu Erdogan
Duygu Erdogan
Duygu Erdoğan has been in the ELT world for over 20 years. She has a BA in American Culture and Literature and an MA in English Language Teaching. She holds an ICELT, DELTA, Teacher Training Certificate and Trainer Training Certificate.
She has worked at various institutions ranging from elementary schools to universities in different parts of Turkey, as a teacher, an administrator and a trainer.
She is one of the founding members of TESOL Turkey Association. Her research interests include teacher research, in-service teacher education, critical thinking in education. Currently, she is the Key Accounts Sales & Marketing Manager for Western Europe region at Macmillan Education.
Semih İrfaner
Semih İrfaner
Dr. Semih Irfaner works at Macmillan Education responsible for teacher training and product promotion, and prepares training programs on academic skills and the use of critical thinking in language classrooms.
Before joining Macmillan Education, Dr. İrfaner worked as both an administrator and a lecturer in the Academic English unit at Bilkent University and prepared and taught courses related to academic English.
In addition to the use of critical thinking in language teaching and learning, Dr. İrfaner also has works on the prevention of bullying among the students, which he worked on during his doctoral program at Hacettepe University.
