Ali Karakas is Associate Professor at Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Turkey. He has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Southampton University, UK. He is also a postdoctoral member of the Centre for Global Englishes at Southampton University. His main research interests include Global Englishes, English as a lingua franca, language policy and planning, language ideologies and pre-service and in-service language teacher education.
Yasemin Kirkgöz is Professor in the English Language Teacher Education department of Çukurova University, Turkey. Her main research interests include language policy and practices particularly in primary and higher education, curriculum design and innovation management, problem-based learning in ELT, English medium instruction in higher education, and pre-service and in-service teacher education. She has received various awards, including the Third Annual David E. Eskey Memorial Award for Curricular Innovation for her publication Innovation as a Curriculum Renewal Process in a Turkish University in 2006, and the Leadership and Management Special Interest Group (SIG) award from IATEFL in 2013.