My Autobiography

I’m Gökalp Güneş, I’m from Istanbul/Turkey and I have been working as an EFL instructor in the preparatory school of a foundation university in Istanbul/Turkey and previously I have worked in private courses in Istanbul teaching adults general English.

Before I graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University from the ELT department, I received my CELTA certificate in New York and I was awarded pass B. After that I completed my MA in the ELT department at Bahcesehir University and conducted a thesis about intercultural communicative competence (ICC) , and now I am a PhD student in the ELT department at Bahcesehir University.

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