Nevin Durmaz
I received a BA in English Language and Literature from Dogus University and earned an MA in Women Studies from Istanbul University where I wrote my Master’s thesis about the effects and influence of the teachers on the formation of gender perception of the adolescent students. During my MA, I participated in the Erasmus Student Exchange Program and enrolled in the Gender Studies Program at Humboldt University in Berlin for one semester. I continued my education at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles where I attained my second MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) program. While studying at USC, I conducted an ethnographic case study on active learning and critical pedagogies in higher education.
I have taught English to learners of different ages for more than ten years. In 2016-2017 academic year, I also taught Turkish at Indiana University, Bloomington, as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant. For future research, I would like to build on the findings of my previous studies considering the most current discussions in language ideologies within bi/multilingual education.