Asst. Prof. Dr. Berra ABBASOĞLU is the head of the Academic English Courses at OSTİM Technical University. She completed her BA and MA in the Department of English Language Teaching at the Faculty of Education of Tabriz Azad University between 1993 and 2001. She completed her PhD in English Language Teaching at Gazi University between 2005 and 2010. She started her academic career as an ELT (English Language Teaching) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) instructor at Tabriz Azad University between 2001 and 2005. She worked as a Persian instructor at the Embassy of Iran in Ankara (FÖMER) between 2006 and 2008. Later, she trained students in the English Language Teaching department at the European University of Lefke in Northern Cyprus between 2008 and 2011. She continued for the following four years as an EAP instructor at Haliç University and Uşak University. In 2013, she traveled to the USA for short research in the field of English Language Teaching. In 2015, she started working in the English Language Teaching Department at Ufuk University. She has taught many undergraduate and graduate courses, such as Linguistics, Measurement and Evaluation, and Language Acquisition, and has advised approximately 10 completed Master’s theses. She has published many articles in international and national journals in the area of English Language Teaching and Assessment, as well as presented papers at international conferences and congresses. She is the co-author of a book on New Horizons in Educational Sciences.
