ARİF SARIÇOBAN
UFUK UNIVERSITY, Turkey
Prof. Dr. Arif Sarıçoban is a senior lecturer at Selçuk University in Turkey. Prof. Sarıçoban holds his B.A. Degree in English Language Teaching (ELT) at 19 Mayıs University in 1986, M.A in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Bilkent University in 1989, and his PhD in English Language Teaching (ELT) at Çukurova University in 1994. He started his academic career as a research assistant in the department of English Language and Literature at Yüzüncü Yıl University in 1987. Upon completion of his M.A. study, he was appointed to the ELL Department at Gaziantep University where he worked as a research assistant from 1990 to 1994 and as an assistant professor of ELL from1994 to 1997. Then, he was appointed as an assistant professor of ELT at Hacettepe University in 1997. He was awarded his associate professorship by the Board of Interuniversitary (UAK) in 2008. He has been working as a professor of English Linguistics for 6 years at Selçuk University.
Prof. Sarıçoban has authored and edited many books in his field of study. He has published numerous articles in the prestigious journals indexed in SSCI, AHCI, ERIC, SCOPUS, and many others. He was invited as a Keynote Speaker to many international conferences, seminars, congresses and also contributed as an oral presenter in many of these sorts of events both nationally and internationally. During the pandemic days he was invited to make speeches in many on-line webinars by different universities in our country.
Prof. Sarıçoban established the Association of English Language Teacher Educators (AELTE) in Turkey in March 2021 and unanimously appointed as the President of this association by the members of board. He has been organizing seminars, webinars, and international conferences within this association. He also welcomes new members.
He is professionally interested in teacher training, teaching English as a second and/or foreign language, bi/multilingualism, language use and attitudes, language learning, language acquisition, language and identity, materials development in EFL/ESL, testing and assessment, classroom management in language learning and teaching, and translation techniques.