The objectives of the course will include enabling language teachers to:
value students’ diversity, to establish a caring and inclusive environment and to demonstrate trust and solidarity
draw on the talents and strengths students bring to their education, while building on their cultural and linguistic resources
make curriculum relevant and applicable to all their students by accommodating and differentiating instruction
create a learning environment that promotes critical thinking and agency for social change
Deniz Ortactepe
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES at MONTEREY
Deniz Ortactepe completed both her BA degree in English language teaching and MA degree in Educational Sciences at Bogazici University. After working in Turkey for several years both as a research assistant and as an English teacher, she moved to the United States in 2007 to pursue her doctoral degree at the State University of New York (SUNY) – Albany. Between 2011-2018, she taught in the MA TEFL program at Bilkent University.
Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the MA TESOL/TFL program at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Her research interests are second language socialization, intercultural pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. She has published in Language Teaching, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Language Identity and Education, System, and Language and Intercultural Communication.
Deniz Ortactepe
