Eda Başak Hancı-Azizoglu gained her Ph.D. in English Language from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a double major in Composition/Rhetoric and Applied Linguistics/TESOL. Her knowledge and experience lie in the areas of English language, literacy, culture, and writing. She is an expert on global perspectives on language and literacy policies, practices and English language learning and writing programs. She has extensive English Language teaching experience in American public schools and universities. She served as a chair in English Departments, where she developed English language programs depending on her students’ unique and diverse needs. She has given master’s level courses to certified American school teachers to provide them leadership and skills on language teaching methods for multicultural students. Her research interests are artificial linguistic intelligence, linguistic analysis, the poetic and creative function of English as an additional language.
Şehnaz Şahinkarakaş is currently working as a Professor at the ELT Department of Çağ University. Her teaching and research interests cover a wide range of topics related to language learning and teaching, including language testing and assessment, language learning psychology, and teacher professional development. Her recent interest is STEAM approach in learning on which she is running a project with K12 learners and teachers. She is also one of the founders of Community of Positive Psychology for English Language Teachers (COPPELT) which aims at helping ELT teachers to thrive in their profession.
Dan Tannacito is Professor Emeritus at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. Dr. Tannacito earned two doctorates at the University of Oregon in applied linguistics and literature. He designed and developed the doctoral program in Applied Linguistics and Composition at IUP where he was the director and taught for 35years. He directed more than 60 doctoral dissertations. He founded and directed the intensive English institute at IUP. He taught and lectured widely in China, Turkey, and Europe. He was director of the MATEFL Program at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He published books on discourse analysis, second language writing, and intensive English teacher preparation. His journal publications include articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing and elsewhere. In retirement, he lives on the Oregon coast with his wife and dog.