Ufuk Balaman is the coordinator of the DigiLTE project. He is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the department of English Language Education at TED University, Türkiye. Using conversation analysis as research methodology, he primarily deals with technology-mediated interaction for L2 learning, teaching and teacher education. Visit his personal website for further info.

Semih Ekin is an Assistant Professor in the department of English Language Education at TED University. His research areas are virtual exchanges, conversation analysis, language teacher education and teacher professional development.

Arzu Kanat-Mutluoğlu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language Education at TED University. She has been offering classes about teaching different skills and competencies of English such as speaking and grammar, linguistics, materials adaptation and development, and practicum. Her research interest centers around foreign language teacher education and the psychology of language learners and teachers, along with a recent notice of technology-mediated language teaching and learning.

İlayda Şahin is a research assistant in the department of English Language Education at TED University. She holds a master’s degree in English Language Teaching from Hacettepe University. She is currently a PhD student in English Language Teaching program at Middle East Technical University. Her research focuses on social interaction, L2 classroom interaction, conversation analysis and L2 teacher education. 

Şükran Buse Tatar works as a research assistant in the department of English Language Teaching at TED University. She holds a Master’s degree in English Language Teaching from Hacettepe University and pursues a PhD at Middle East Technical University. Her research focuses on classroom interaction, synchronous online teaching, and conversation analysis.

Hasan Felat Kocahal is a PhD student and works as a research assistant in the department of English Language Education at TED University. His research focuses on virtual exchange, intercultural communication, and conversation analysis.

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Taiane Malabarba is a Postdoctoral researcher in the research center Interactional Linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She uses ethnomethodology, conversation analysis and interactional linguistics to study face-to-face and technology-mediated interactions with multilingual speakers. She is especially interested in contexts involving learning and teaching of English as an additional language. For more information, please visit her website.

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Silvia Kunitz (PhD) is a senior lecturer at Linköping University, where she is involved in teacher education. In her research she adopts a conversation-analytic approach to study interaction in formal (e.g., classroom settings) and informal (e.g., language cafés) language learning environments with a particular focus on how participants do learning and teaching as socially situated activities in various material ecologies. Silvia also works in collaborative projects with school teachers within the network for English and Modern Languages at Stockholm Teaching and Learning Studies.

Nigel Musk is a Senior Assistant Professor and the Director of the Research Environment Language and Culture at Linköping University, Sweden. His main research interests concern language teaching and learning as well as bilingualism/multilingualism with a multimodal CA perspective. Musk has been researching digital collaborative writing in the English as a foreign language classroom since 2011. He also teaches an advanced level course in classroom interaction for trainee upper secondary teachers of English. For further information, please visit his website.

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Betül Çimenli Olcars works as a research assistant at the Department of Foreign Language Education at Bartın University. She holds a PhD from the Foreign Language Education Program at METU. Her research interests involve investigating face-to-face and online interaction (mostly through Virtual Exchange (VE)) via Conversation Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Discourse Analysis from various environments including classroom discourse and dyadic online conversations. She participated in various EU funded projects. She is a member of UniCollaboration Graduate SIG, Micro Analysis Network (MAN), Discourse and Corpus Research Group (DISCORE), and Micro Analysis Research Group (MARG).

Neslihan Köse is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Design & Instruction at the Lifelong Learning Department of the Faculty of Education at Bartın University. Her research interests include the use of AI in education and comparative analysis of curricula. She is also engaged in different international projects and delivers pedagogy courses at the faculty of education.

Erdi Şimşek is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics at Bartın University. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham. His main field of research interest focuses on the socio-psychological aspects of foreign language learning. He has also researched and published in the areas of AR, VR, and AI in education.

İnanç Karagöz (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of English Language Teaching at Bartın University. She holds an MA in TESOL from New York University (2017), and a PhD. in Technology in Education and Second Language Acquisition from the University of South Florida (2022). Her research interests lie at the intersection of technology and language education, with a particular focus on digital social reading, writing instruction, and open and distance learning including a PhD thesis on the use of social annotation tools to support reading engagement in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course.

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Natalia Evnitskaya (PhD) is a tenure-track lecturer at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), Spain, where she works as a teacher educator at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In her research, she adopts a multimodal conversation-analytic approach to study (content and language) teaching and learning, classroom interaction, and interactional competence in EFL, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and EMI (English-medium Instruction) classroom contexts, as well as innovative approaches to language teacher education. For further information, please visit her website.

Lexi Dawn Chaney is a PhD candidate at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) where she works as both an instructor and a research assistant in the Department of Applied Linguistics. Lexi holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts (LAALCM) from the University of Barcelona (UB) and is currently a member of the Research Group on Multilingual Acquisition (GRAM). Her research focuses are on sociolinguistics, minority languages, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), multilingualism, second and third language acquisition, and language planning and policy.

Fatma Badem is is a tenure-track lecturer at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona). She is a member of Micro Analysis Network (MAN) and UIC Barcelona Multimodal Conversation Analysis and Qualitative Analysis (UIC- MMCA & QA) group. Her research interests primarily include classroom discourse and interaction, conversation analysis, and teacher education.