Lecturer Şebnem Kartal Büyüközer
School of Foreign Languages / Preparatory Class
Short CV
Sebnem was born in Izmir in 1982. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in American Culture and Literature from Ege University in 2002. After graduation, she started teaching General English to children and adults at the American Cultural Association in Izmir. After a year’s work, she gave a pause in her professional experience to get her pedagogical formation certificate from Ege University. Meanwhile, she started working at the foreign trade department of a multinational company based in Izmir, as the assistant to the executive manager and foreign trade staff. She also continued teaching English at a private language course at the weekends. At the end of a 5 years-experience in foreign trade, she got back to her teaching career and started working as an EFL instructor at the Preparatory Class of Yasar University in 2009. In 2010, she was assigned to the Faculty of Business and Administrative Sciences where she was responsible for designing and teaching “English for Business/ Economics” courses. During her service at the faculty, she also received her Master’s degree in Business Administration at Yasar University in 2012. In 2013, she started working in the Academic English programme. Since then, she has been teaching various EAP and ESP courses in the English medium departments of the university. Since 2018, she has also been in charge of designing, coordinating and teaching the “English for Academic and Professional Communication” courses taught at the Faculty of Engineering, in cooperation with her colleague, Betul Kahyaoglu. She received her SIT TESOL certificate in 2019.- Phone 0232-570 9883