She received her Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Cincinnati, USA in 1997. In 2002, she received her doctorate degree in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Arizona, USA. She has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Teacher Education and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology at Boğaziçi University since 2002. Her research focuses mainly on pre- and in-service language teacher education and foreign language teaching methodology. She has coordinated several national and international research projects about language teacher education and online teacher education. Recently, she has been involved in an international language education research project (ILTERG), funded by the Turkish National Agency and Erasmus +. She can be contacted at sumru.akcan@boun.edu.tr