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Prof. Dr. EMRE DEBRELİ

School of Foreign Languages

Position Director
E-mail edebreli@ciu.edu.tr
Telephone number +90 392 671 11 11
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U.N. Sustaınable Development Goals


Quality Education Quality Education
Reduced Inequalities Reduced Inequalities
Responsible Consumption and Production Responsible Consumption and Production
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Partnerships for The Goals Partnerships for The Goals

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education
  • University of Reading TEFL (PhD, 2013)
  • University of Essex TEFL (Master, 2008)
  • Eastern Mediterranean University ELT (Undergraduate, 2006)
Publications

Articles published in peer reviewed international journals (SCI,SSCI,Arts and Humanities)

  • Debreli, E. (2026). Transforming teacher identity and pedagogy through professional learning communities in multilingual English language programs. International Journal of Multilingualism, 1-27. - 2026
  • Debreli, E., & Abdulqadir, H. A. A. (2026). Teacher motivational practices and their perceived influence on L2 motivation in Libyan secondary EFL classrooms. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1701372. - 2026
  • Debreli, E. (2026). Negotiating agency and emotional wellbeing in AI-infused ELT practicum: A qualitative study of pre-service teachers’ lived experiences. Language Teaching Research, 13621688261422528. - 2026
  • Debreli, Emre. Teachers’ linguistic reasoning about interculturality in ELT:exploring how educators conceptualize and justifyintercultural pedagogical practices. Language Awareness (2026) 1–23. - 2026
  • Özdil, Büşra Müge, and Emre Debreli. "Exploring language teacher roles at a higher education context through the lens of critical pedagogy: Transmission or transformation?." System 130 (2025): 103613. - 2025
  • Debreli, E. (2026). Translanguaging in ELT Teacher Education in Türkiye: From Policy Silence to Pedagogical Possibilities. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. - 2025
  • Hussain, S., Debreli, E. & Farman, M. Sustainable professional growth through digital mentorship: evidence from language teachers in low-resource settings. Sci Rep 16, 16 (2026) - 2025
  • Kentmen, Hazel, Emre Debreli, and Mehmet Ali Yavuz. "Assessing tertiary Turkish EFL learners’ pragmatic competence regarding speech acts and conversational implicatures." Sustainability 15.4 (2023): 3800. - 2023
  • Altintug, Fatma A., and Emre Debreli. "A study of literacy teaching in state primary schools of Northern Cyprus: literally critical?." International Journal of Inclusive Education 26.6 (2022): 592-608. - 2021
  • Debreli, Emre. "Teacher shadowing as an empowering technique for EFL student teacher practical knowledge development: insights from three-week shadowing programmes." Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 47.4 (2019): 432-452. - 2019
  • Debreli, Emre, and Inara Ishanova. "Foreign language classroom management: Types of student misbehaviour and strategies adapted by the teachers in handling disruptive behaviour." Cogent Education 6.1 (2019): 1648629. - 2019

Articles published in National journals

  • Özdil, Büşra, and Emre Debreli. "RE-CULTURING OR DE-CULTURING OUR CLASSES?: THE INTEGRATION OF THE TARGET CULTURE INTO EFL CLASSROOMS." LAÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 12.1 (2021): 65-81. - 2021
  • Debreli, Emre, and Fatma Aslantürk Altıntuğ. "Arts-based research and the artistic and creative role of artifacts as stories in literacy practices." (2017). - 2017
  • Debreli, Emre, and Fatma Aslantürk Altıntuğ. "Fostering Creative and Critical Literacy Skills in Children‘s Multimodal Literacy Practices Çocukların Çok yönlü Okuma-Yazma Uygulamalarında Yaratıcı ve Eleştirel Okuryazarlık Yetilerini Geliştirme." (2017). - 2017
  • Debreli, Emre. "A Review of Research on the Effects of Teaching Pedagogy: Controversies in the Area." LAÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 4.2 (2013): 82-92. - 2013

Articles published in other peer reviewed international journals

  • Ata, Murat, and Emre Debreli. "Machine Translation in the Language Classroom: Turkish EFL Learners' and Instructors' Perceptions and Use." IAFOR Journal of Education 9.4 (2021): 103-122. - 2021
  • Aslanturk Altintug, F., and E. Debreli. "Use of children’s popular culture in curricula: An Analysis of the Papers by Parry (2002) and Dickie and Shuker (2014) through the Lenses of “No Research Can Be Value-Laden”." Journal of Education and Learning 7.1 (2018): 174-183. - 2018
  • Bilokçuoğlu, Hasan, and Emre Debreli. "Use of humour in language classes: an effective ‘filter’for affective filter?." Journal of language and linguistic studies 14.3 (2018): 347-359. - 2018
  • Debreli, Emre, and Nazife Onuk. "The Influence of Educational Programme on Teachers' Error Correction Preferences in the Speaking Skill: Insights from English as a Foreign Language Context." International Education Studies 9.6 (2016): 76-85. - 2016
  • Debreli, Emre. "Pre-Service Teachers' Belief Change and Practical Knowledge Development during the Course of Practicum." Journal of Education and Training Studies 4.7 (2016): 37-46. - 2016
  • Debreli, Emre. "Perceptions of Non-Native EFL Teachers' on L1 Use in L2 Classrooms: Implications for Language Program Development." English Language Teaching 9.3 (2016): 24-32. - 2016
  • Debreli, Emre. "Pre-Service Teachers' Belief Sources about Learning and Teaching: An Exploration with the Consideration of the Educational Programme Nature." Higher Education Studies 6.1 (2016): 116-127. - 2016
  • Debreli, Emre, and Nadire Oyman. "Students' Preferences on the Use of Mother Tongue in English as a Foreign Language Classrooms: Is It the Time to Re-Examine English-Only Policies?." English Language Teaching 9.1 (2016): 148-162. - 2015

Papers presented in international conferences and printed as proceedings

  • University ELT teachers’ conceptions of and attitudes towards research - 2021
  • Assessment of learning and teaching during Covid-19 via online platforms through the eyes of EFL teachers: how realistic is it? - 2021
  • Pre-service teachers’ shadowing experience: insights from the practicum - 2019
  • Another brick in the wall’ view of teaching English - 2019
  • Teachers’ perceptions towards L1 use in EFL classrooms: do the proposed perceptions and actual classroom practice match? - 2018
  • Demotivation in foreign language learning: insights from an EFL context - 2018
  • Özdil, Büşra, and Emre Debreli. "RE-CULTURING OR DE-CULTURING OUR CLASSES?: THE INTEGRATION OF THE TARGET CULTURE INTO EFL CLASSROOMS." LAÜ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 12.1 (2021): 65-81. - 2018
  • Debreli, Emre. "Change in beliefs of pre-service teachers about teaching and learning English as a foreign language throughout an undergraduate pre-service teacher training program." Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 46 (2012): 367-373. - 2012
  • Debreli, Emre. "Use of diaries to investigate and track pre-service teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning English as a foreign language throughout a pre-service training program." Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 15 (2011): 60-65. - 2011

Books and books chapters published internationally

  • Practice-based Professional development in ELT - 2020
  • Özdil, Büşra Müge, and Emre Debreli. Critical Pedagogy in ELT: Reunderstanding the Teacher Roles. Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık. - 2019
Thesis Supervision

Master Thesis Supervised

  • Assets and challenges of EFL teachers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms - 2025
  • Possible contributions and challenges of using Chatpgt in learning and teaching English - 2025
  • A study on the impact of environment on the performance of secondary school students in English language n the Northwest region of Cameroon. - 2024
  • The link between motivation and informational social influence theory for using language apps. - 2024
  • Can online teaching / learning completely replace face-to-face learning / teaching in ESL/EFL classrooms? Post-pandemic view. - 2024
  • The perceptions of EFL teachers and students’ on the use of L1 - 2024
  • Exploration of how ELT students use smartphones for language learning purposes. - 2023
  • The utilization of Instagram as a MALL tool to improve EFL learners’ vocabulary size. - 2021
  • Effectiveness of stream of consciousness on writing skill: EFL teachers’ views’. - 2020
  • Educational Psychology: EFL teachers’ motivation and motivational strategies used in their classrooms’ - 2020
  • Testing effect as a consequence of autonomy, study habits and cramming in Turkish universities prep-school context - 2019
  • EFL teachers’ perceptions towards demotivated language learners’ - 2019
  • English learners and instructors’ perceptions, attitudes and beliefs regarding the use of online machine translation tools - 2019
  • Transmission or transformation?: Exploring teacher roles at a higher education context through the lens of critical pedagogy. - 2019
  • What role does ‘research’ play in language teaching? Attitudes of ELT teachers, administrators and teacher trainers towards teacher research engagement at a university in northern Cyprus - 2019
  • An evaluation on implementing reflective teaching practice as a means of professional development: fostering EFL teachers’ craft knowledge. - 2018
  • Challenges faced by pre-service ELT student teachers during the teaching practicum. - 2018
  • The role of peer observation in professional development’ - 2018
  • Foreign language classroom management: types of student misbehavior and strategies adapted by the teachers in handling distruptive behaviour’ - 2017
  • Perceptions of the teachers and the students about the effectiveness of using audio-visual teaching materials in teaching and learning of English at the preparatory schools of Shaqlawa district’ - 2016
  • Perceptions of EFL students on the use of audio-visual materials in language classrooms: a study on EFL curriculum development - 2016
  • Turkish teachers’ and students’ perceptions towards corrective feedback in the writing skill’ - 2015
  • Turkish Cypriot EFL teachers’ preferences and practices of correction techniques of pronunciation mistakes’ - 2015
  • Sources and levels of foreign language anxiety of EFL Turkish university students relative to language proficiency and gender’ - 2015
  • A comparative study of error analysis of Turkish EFL learners in universities - 2014
  • Change in the perceptions of pre-service teachers as a result of the difficulties they faced during ELT practicum’ - 2014
  • Pre-service teachers’ shadowing experience: insights from the practicum’ - 2014

Doctorate Thesis Supervised

  • Research into pragmatic competence in EFL context: intercultural influence on the use of English as a foreign language’. - 2023
Research Areas
  • Language teacher cognition; professional development; technology in education
Administrative Duties
  • EUL Director of the Preparatory School (2013-2022)
  • EUL Head of the ELT Department (2013-2022)
  • EUL Member of the Senate (2013-2022)
  • EUL Member of the Executive Board (2013-2022)
  • EUL Member of the Quality and Accreditation Board (2016-2022)
  • CIU Director of the School of Foreign Languages (2022-ONGOING)
  • CIU Member of the Senate (2022-ONGOING)
  • CIU Member of the Executive Board (2022-ONGOING)
  • CIU Faculty of Arts and Sciences Acting Dean (2023-ONGOING)
  • CIU Head of the Student Disciplinary Board (2025-2026)
  • CIU Member of the Distance Education Center Committee (2025-ONGOING)
  • CIU Member of the Continuing Education Center Committee (2025-ONGOING)