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ELIF CANAN ONAT
Her name is Elif Canan Onat. She is the Chairman of Modern Languages Department in Bahçeşehir University (BAU) Foreign Languages School. She is an asset for BAU because she has an admirable career in terms of education, skills and ability. She uses success factors such as motivation and illustration with examples, and educational methodologies to teach and coach. Her main goal is to improve her students’ understanding of life nationally and internationally. Although many academicians are only interested in their studies and thinks that they are just responsible to know their own task, she sees being an academician as a way of life with her students and studies and believes that an academician needs to be a multi-tasking person.
She has an admirable career in terms of education, skills and ability. Elif Canan was born in September 16, 1967 in Ankara. She graduated from Hacettepe University in 1991. She has had a double degree from literature and education. She was employed as a translator and redactor in TRT Ankara Television. Then, she was employed as an Administrative Coordinator in Bilgi University Preparation School in 1997. She was one of the founders of Bilgi University Academic English Department in 2002. Then, she was promoted as Level Coordinator in Bilgi University between 2005 to 2007. She transferred to Bahçeşehir University as a founder of Modern Language Department in 2008. She had her Master’s
In “Theme for English B” education has been obtained yet the speaker still faces discrimination. The speaker takes his studies very seriously, especially since
I have been wanting to broaden my knowledge and experiences beyond Latin America and Azerbaijan presents the type of non-Euro centric opportunity I desire. During my graduate studies, I am focusing on post-Soviet countries and Azerbaijan to present a fascinating case study. The country and its people have flourished compared to other former-Soviet states, with Baku developing into a world-class city. Azerbaijani is also spoken in Iran and Dagestan, and I want to learn more about these countries and how the language shapes their citizens’ lives.
Being Angolan and having the opportunity to be here in United States is a chance i could not have expected such opportunity that I am truly grateful for this amazing opportunity and I will always value the education I received at Houston Community College. It my first step to complete a B.S in engineering, I must say that my first few steps falted a I feared failure. Nevertheless, one person during one semester changed my life, she was my communication instructor, Dr. Washington saw beyond my self-doubt and led me to believe I could achieve any goal. Her confidence in me changed my self-perception through her eyes and help. I truly become the confident and ambitious young man she saw. Now that is time to finish this journey and fulfil her
The English language drew fascination from an early age. I began speaking full sentences before fourteen months. I finished the Lord of the Rings trilogy before public school. Soon after, my reading progressed to Poe and Lovecraft in primary school; in secondary I read Hemmingway, Dickenson, and much of what the Norton Anthology series covered. After graduation, I spent my professional career in the information technology industry due to the high rate of pay. However, the computer field was not a fulfilling career. Being led back to education, I considered becoming a History professor the first semester; though, the summer before the second year became a revelation. English combines history, philosophy, and the language itself. Therefore, fulfilling the main desire of having a job that is doing things I enjoy for a third of employed hours or more. Education has always been a pre-requisite. I get bored easy with employment that does have a reoccurring intellectual stimulation. I enjoy a job that constantly requires one to expand their knowledge and do independent research. The project and prerequisite research will be invaluable in preparing for a competitive job field.
This led to my next question, What’s your major and how can English improve your success in this career? “Business is my major but I don't know which type of business to go into there is so many to choose from!”. “Other than the money, I’m good with money” Adrian’s major really compliments his personality as a hardworking, generous, thoughtful and ambitious scholar. “Improving my writing and reading skills will help me learn to analyze work relationships and to network.” I decided to ask what were his thoughts on learning and improving his English and why is it so significant in his career. He thought this one through, “To sound professional and to gain respect”. Adrian strongly believes the more knowledge you have the more respect you gain. “In this field it doesn't matter where you're from, the only thing that matters is how successful you are in doing your work”. I admire how passionate he is about his major and with that type of attitude I know he will achieve his
I attended school from the age of six. Even my family to be from a poor origin, I took good grades at school. I studied hard because my parents always told me how was important the knowledge in our lives. I studied during all my life in public schools, concluding my high school in 1994, in a humble public school in the country of the Mato Grosso State. In 2008, I had the opportunity to conclude the course of Human Resources by São Paulo University, in Brazil, giving a huge proud for my father and mother.
for education, with education come communication which led's to the exchange of ideas, with the ex-
I am Idiris Abdi, born in Somalia and grow up in Kenya special in Dadaab refugee camps. I did my middle school and high school in Africa (Kenya). Most of my time in the in Dadaab refugee I spend for education, I went for a college in Nairobi Kenya for logistic Management, but I didn’t completed the cause because of resettlement to USA. I decided to do one year of diploma and I did it. I work nonprofit organization in the refugee. This is my first online class but when I was in Africa I did Distance learning similar to online. I don’t have any professional; my hobbies are soccer, movers and reading novels.
Academic titles of dotsent and professor are issued to active university staff that has already achieved degrees of kandidat or doktor; the rules prescribe minimum residency term, authoring established study textbooks in their
Apart from this basic introduction to this field, I have come to learn the major issue in this sphere. I have come to realise that education is one of the key factors that can change people’s lives, clichéd as it sounds. This idea is echoed through the
In 1998, after graduating from the International Kazakh-Turkish high school, I began to work at a gymnasium where almost all the subjects were in English. I loved English so much that I decided to continue studying it at the university. In 2001, I entered the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, which is located in Turkestan. My major there was FOREIGN PHILOLOGY. While there, I studied two languages: Turkish and English. While I was studying, I began to work at gymnasium #22 in Kentau. In 2005, during my last year in the university, I worked as a teacher of English at Polytechnical School #16, named after Yuri Gagarin in Kentau. At the same time in 2007, I started to work as a teacher of English at the Kazakh-Turkish High school from which I was graduated in 1998. I worked there until I became director of the school. After that, in 2009, I was invited to work at the Ministry of Justice of
A high school English teacher has many aspects to his job. Foremost among them is the actual teaching he must do. A high school teacher must plan, create, and execute lessons for his specific discipline (“Occupational Details for Secondary School Teachers”). After those lessons have been taught, a teacher must be able to accurately assess each student’s skill level (“High School Teachers”). And in the world of education as it currently exists, a teacher must spend the year preparing the students for the state exam at the end of the school year (“High School”). However, a teacher’s job extends beyond teaching. For instance, teachers must be communicate effectively with parents and maintain educational records electronically (“Occupational”). Every teacher must also manage the behavior of his students throughout the day (“High School”). A teacher’s day is packed with those meaningful obligations.
My 30 years job in Italian schools allowed me to do a practical work experience, becoming confident with young people 's needs and wishes (I worked in primary and secondary schools, and in 6 form colleges). In 2005 I moved from Italy to England and therefore, I felt the need to improve my English. For this reason, I started new courses of studies in order to learn English as first language. At the first time I attended the Bede Centre College (for three years) and subsequently, I started my courses at Sunderland University, enjoying English and English literature (3 years BA (hons) course in English, whose final result was 2/1 with honour (ending in July 2012). In addition, in September 2012 I started a MA in English (15 months, achieving my Master degree in English and science).
I study in University of Washington and I am from Malaysia, a multicultural country. Over the past four years of being away from home, I have grown and improved a lot. Coming from a multicultural country, I am fluent in English, Malay, Mandarin, and Cantonese and I can be a linguistic to overcome the language barrier in the University of California – Santa Barbara (UCSB)’s community. My knowledge of different cultures and religions will promote mutual understanding in the community. I can adapt into new environment smoothly and I can help others to blend into new environment as well. Therefore, I learn empathy and understand people from their perspectives. My experience in helping my brother to battle with depression further instills empathy in me. Thus, I can be a cultural navigator to help people to see in others perspective and a good listener. Therefore, based on my cultural background and life experiences, I will increase productivity, promote mutual understanding, foster good mental development within the UCSB community.
Among all the questions I asked, the first is the one I am the most interested in: I wonder how she evaluates her curriculum and what is the most important part in her teaching. After much deliberation, she told me it is “passion”. Not only the teachers need to have passion in their repetitive teaching year by year, but they also need to light up the passion in their students in English studying. Last year, the new policy came out that English will not be one of the compulsory courses in future College Entrance Examinations, which makes lots of students and their parents start to transfer their consideration in English to other courses. This had made English teaching