Betil ERÖZ

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Betil ERÖZ is an Associate Professor at Middle East Technical University, within the Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education. Her research focuses on intercultural communicative competence, teacher education, reflective teaching, and sociolinguistics, with a strong emphasis on qualitative research methods and technology integration in language teaching.

• Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona (2003)
• M.A. in English Language and Linguistics, University of Arizona (1998)
• B.A. in Foreign Language Education, Middle East Technical University (1995)

Her recent work examines anti-refugee discourses on social media, identity construction in second career teachers, and corpus development for spoken Turkish. She also investigates pedagogical approaches to teaching speaking and writing, mentorship dynamics, and the use of literature and technology in integrated skills development.

Key research trends include:

• Analysis of digital discourses and migration narratives
• Exploration of cultural patterns in language education
• Development of transcription standards for Turkish corpora