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Prof. Dr. Emre DEBRELİ

School of Foreign Languages/Foreign Languages
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edebreli@ciu.edu.tr
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Eastern Mediterranean University

ELT (Undergraduate , 2006)

University of Essex

TEFL (Master , 2008)

University of Reading

TEFL (PhD , 2013)

    Articles published in peer reviewed international journals (SCI,SSCI,Arts and Humanities)
  • Debreli, Emre. Teachers’ linguistic reasoning about interculturality in ELT:exploring how educators conceptualize and justifyintercultural pedagogical practices. Language Awareness (2026) 1–23. - 2026
  • 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, E. (2026). Translanguaging, identity, and ecology: synthesizing a decade of research and reimagining multilingual pedagogy. Applied Linguistics Review, - 2026
  • Debreli, E. (2026). Identity as ideological practice: Translanguaging and critical awareness in english language teacher education. Linguistics and Education - 2026
  • Ofori, H. O., & Debreli, E. (2026). Psychological mechanisms of AI integration in ESL teaching: teacher self-efficacy and classroom practice in Ghanaian senior high schools. Frontiers in Psychology - 2026
  • Barbour, M. S., & Debreli, E. (2026). Exploring the psychological dimensions of poetry-and drama-based instruction in EFL learning. Frontiers in Psychology - 2026
  • Hadizadeh, A., & Debreli, E. (2026). Reconceptualising innovation in EMI: GenAI as a translanguaging space. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching - 2026
  • Kaya, A., & Debreli, E. (2026). Beyond Multilingualism: Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Classroom Interaction in Superdiverse Higher Education. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. - 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
  • 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
  • Debreli, E. (2026). Translanguaging in ELT Teacher Education in Türkiye: From Policy Silence to Pedagogical Possibilities. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. - 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 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • Language teacher cognition; professional development; technology in education
    Doctorate Thesis Supervised

  • Research into pragmatic competence in EFL context: intercultural influence on the use of English as a foreign language’. - 2023

  • Sustainable Professional Growth through Digital Mentorship: Evidence from Language Teachers in Low-Resource Settings - 2025

  • Psychological Mechanisms of AI Integration in ESL Teaching: Teacher Self-Efficacy and Classroom Practice in Ghanaian Senior High Schools - 2026

  • Exploring the Role of Teacher Behaviors in Enhancing Learner Motivation in an EFL Context - 2026

    • Master Thesis Supervised

  • 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

  • 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

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 - 2026

CIU Member of the Distance Education Center Committee

2025 - Ongoing

CIU Member of the Continuing Education Center Committee

2025 - Ongoing

CIU Head of the Student Disciplinary Board

2025 - 2026

Dean of Faculty of Education

2026 - 2026