Tijen Akşit

Tijen Aksit holds a PhD in Educational Sciences, as well as an MA and a BSc in English Language Teaching. She has been affiliated with Bilkent University for more than thirty years. She began her career as an English language instructor in the English Language Preparatory Program at Bilkent, where she taught for six years.

Before assuming various administrative roles at Bilkent University, she worked as a full-time teacher and held leadership positions in different institutions. She served as Director of Language Studies at Kolej Ayşeabla, a K–12 school in Ankara, and later as Departmental English Program Coordinator at Başkent University, Ankara, each for one year.

During her tenure at Bilkent University, she has taught General English as well as English for Academic and Specific Purposes courses at the undergraduate level, and teacher education courses at the graduate level.

Since 2003, she has been teaching at the Graduate School of Education. Dr. Aksit also served for many years as the Director of the School of English Language and of its Faculty Academic English Program at Bilkent University.

Dr. Aksit actively involved in the design of quality assurance systems for tertiary-level English language preparatory programs in Turkish universities, working closely with the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council. She currently serves as a member of the Language Education Accreditation Decision Board of the Turkish Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Language Education.

Dr. Aksit is the author of the book Characteristics of Effective Schools and the co-editor of Bridging Teaching, Learning and Assessment in the English Language Classroom and The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes. She has also published on teacher appraisal systems, teacher action research, teaching English for academic purposes, and English-medium instruction. Her research interests include Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP), English-medium instruction (EMI), language teacher development, quality assurance in English language teaching and education, teacher leadership, and teaching English and Turkish as foreign languages.