Ümit Özkanal

Ümit Özkanal is the head of the Department of English Language Teaching at the Faculty of Education in Eskisehir Osmangazi University. He completed his MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Bilkent University and received his doctoral degree in Curriculum Evaluation and Development at Anadolu University. After working as an EFL instructor for 18 years he continued his professional career as a language teacher educator. His research interests are curriculum evaluation, mentoring practices, written feedback, and teacher training. He offers teacher training courses including Drama and ELT, ELT Curriculum, Practicum, Translation, and Writing Skills.

Publications

Virtual Collaboration for English Language Teacher Education: Professional Negotiations With Ukraine and Türkiye
Banu Cicek Basaran Uysal, İlknur Yüksel, Ümit Özkanal, Emine Eren Gezen, Oksana Andriivna Chernysh, Natalia Andriichuk. © 2024. 21 pages.
This chapter studies the role of telecollaboration in facilitating teacher professional development, specifically focusing on the perceptions of future English language teachers....