{"id":11311,"date":"2018-02-09T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ss.ibsu.edu.ge\/ibsu\/?post_type=se&#038;p=311"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T12:29:54","slug":"middle-east-technical-university-12th-elt-convention-ankara-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/middle-east-technical-university-12th-elt-convention-ankara-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Technical University 12th ELT Convention \u2013 Ankara\/Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0International ELT Convention was held by the Department of Basic English at Middle East Technical University (ODTU) on May 25-26, 2015 in Ankara, Turkey. The convention takes place every two years and attracts many renowned scholars in ELT from all over the world. This year\u2019s event was not an exception. Key-note speakers, Dr. Luke Prodromou, Dr. Deena Borai, Lindsay Clanfield, David Gibson, Dr. Suresh Canagarajah and Dr. Betil Er\u00f6z-Tu\u011fa did create credentials of the convention making it an unforgettable experience for the participants. Concurrent sessions and workshops were highly informative and productive enhancing attendees\u2019 knowledge and understanding of ELT issues. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikoloz Parjanadze and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Sahiner from International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia presented their research findings on \u2018Investigating EFL Learners\u2019 Needs through Student Diversity Issues\u2019. International Black Sea University provided BA English Philology senior year students of the Faculty of Education and Humanities Tinatin Mchedlidze, Ketevan Mchedlidze and Kamandar Teymurzada with a wonderful opportunity to attend the convention and gain experience for their future professional growth and career development.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12th\u00a0International ELT Convention was held by the Department of Basic English at Middle East Technical University (ODTU) on May 25-26, 2015 in Ankara, Turkey. The convention takes place every two years and attracts many renowned scholars in ELT from all over the world. This year\u2019s event was not an exception. Key-note speakers, Dr. Luke Prodromou,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-of-education-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibsu.edu.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}