Short CV

Ahmet Egemen Tanık is an instructor of School of Foreign Languages at Yaşar University. Before YU, he worked as an instructor at Ege University School of Foreign Languages for 7 years teaching 30 hours a week as a part-time instructor, and prior to that Ankara University, TÖMER for a year. During those eight years and in the following five in his current school, he has had the opportunity to work with learners of various ages and levels of proficiencies, collecting on-the-job experience on the techniques and approaches he was previously taught about, learning from colleagues both young and old, green and seasoned. He has a BA in English Language and Literature, a teaching certificate, some 10000 class hours under his belt. In the 2016-2017 academic year, which marked his tenth year in teaching, he was certified in TESOL by the SIT Graduate Institute. When he is not teaching he is probably doing one of the below: reading science-fiction, moviegoing, taking nature walks, travelling, trying poetry, looking at Internet humour, playing video games (29 years and counting), listening to music, or trying to make sense of the world and himself with the help of psychology and philosophy.