Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak

• PhD
• Lecturer at Middle East Technical University

Earlier research has established that language teachers’ identity work is intertwined with emotions and called for incorporating emotions in language teacher education. Yet, there is limited research investigating how teacher education programmes pedagogize identity, emotions and agency to help pre-service teachers gain critical emotional reflexivi...

Language teacher educator (LTE) identity development is an emerging field exploring how LTEs learn to teach and negotiate their identities and how their identity construction processes help teacher candidates learn. The complexity of the issue has prompted researchers to explore their professional journeys and experiences in various contexts from d...

This edited volume showcases how teacher educators around the world engage with critical and dialogic approaches to prepare TESOL professionals. Language teachers are at the forefront of supporting the academic and social needs of increasingly ethnically and linguistically diverse student populations around the globe, and preparing critical and dia...

This book showcases how teacher educators from diverse backgrounds, contexts, and realities approach English language teacher education with a critical stance. Organized into nine parts that explore different facets of English Language Teaching, each section opens with theoretical considerations chapters and features 24 practical application chapte...

Celebrating the work of Paulo Freire for his healing influence, this paper gives an auto-ethnographic account of the author’s personal, pedagogical and political liberation process reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Raised in a conservative patriarchal middle-class atmosphere in central Turkey, the author analyzes her own story of li...

Drawing attention to the threats that an overreliance on teaching techniques poses for teacher creativity, student voice, and the well-being of democracy, Moving beyond Technicism in English-Language Teacher Education advocates a critical approach to education. Using the author’s own personal experiences, this book offers a critical analysis of the...

İngilizce öğretmenliği alanyazınında anadili İngilizce olan öğretmenler ile anadili İngilizce olmayan öğretmenler arasındaki eşitsizlik üzerine pek çok çalışma vardır. Söz konusu eşitsizliği Freire’nin kuramsal bakış açısından inceleyen bu çalışma, anadili İngilizce olmayan çok sayıda İngilizce öğretmeninin içselleştirdiği anadili İngilizce olanlar...

Mızıkacı, F., Senese, G., Tezgiden, Y. & Gorman, S. (2017). A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States. Lexington Books. NY

In this chapter, I first describe the theoretical lens of the study followed by a brief outline of the Turkish socio-political context, including the operations of higher education and teacher education system. By providing a historical background, I intend to present the reader with a more comprehensive understanding of the current political and a...