Awards & Affiliations

Bureau of Federal Educational Programs (BFEP)
Florida Department of Education
Employee of the Month Award
Certificate of Appreciation for Tier 1 Monitoring Reports
Bureau of Federal Educational Programs (BFEP)
Florida Department of Education
Outstanding Team Member Award
2022-2023 Marquis Who’s Who in America Publications Board Publication Award
2021 TESOL International Virtual Convention
Professional Development Scholarship Award
2019 ACTFL Teaching and Learning of Culture & Research SIG (Washington D.C., U.S.A.)
Early Career Award
2019 TESOL International Convention (Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)
Professional Development Scholarship Award
ACTFL Research SIG Early Career Award
(New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.)
2nd place
Council on Research in Education (CORE)
Research Travel Award
ACTFL Language Learning for Children SIG Award
Council on Research in Education (CORE)
Research Travel Award
ACTFL Language Learning for Children SIG Award
The National Network for Early Language Learning
Santillana Scholar Award
University of Central Florida
Research Presentation Fellowship
Sunshine State TESOL
Graduate Research Dissertation Award
University of Central Florida
Research Presentation Fellowship
UCF College of Education and Human Performance Graduate Research Showcase Poster Honorable Mention Award
UCF College of Education and Human Performance
Graduate Teaching Assistantship Excellence Award
University of Central Florida
Research Presentation Fellowship
University of Texas at Austin
Graduate School Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship
Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship/Fellowship
Erasmus Teacher Exchange Program (Poland)
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship (FLTA)
Erasmus Teacher Exchange Program (Lithuania)
Comenius Lifelong Learning Assistantship
Excellence in Second Language Assessment Award
President’s High Honor Roll, Middle East Technical University
President’s High Honor Roll, Middle East Technical University
President’s Honor Roll, Middle East Technical University
President’s Honor Roll Certificate (Full-Time Award) Middle East Technical University
President’s High Honor Roll Certificate (Full-Time Award) Middle East Technical University
President’s High Honor Roll Certificate (Full-Time Award) Middle East Technical University

Affiliations

  • Turkic Academic Community of ELT (TACELT)
  • TESOL Turkey
  • National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE)
  • Accelerative Integrated Method (AIM) Language Learning
  • Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA)
  • Academy of Marketing Science (AMS)
  • National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL)
  • Sunshine State TESOL (SSTESOL) 
  • Florida Educational Research Association (FERA)
  • American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
  • American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
  • TESOL International Association
  • Texas State TESOL (TexTESOL)