Onur Özkaynak

Graduate Teaching Associate

Education
• PhD in Multilingual Language Education (in progress) – The Ohio State University
• MA in TEFL – Bilkent University
• BA in English Language Teaching – Gazi University
• Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages – Cambridge University

Biography
Onur Özkaynak is a doctoral student in Multilingual Language Education, supported by a Fulbright grant. Before joining OSU, he had taught academic English at the university level in Turkey for eight years. His research interests span language teacher education, educational sociolinguistics, language ideologies, Global Englishes, and multilingual language education. As a native Turkish speaker, he also maintains a keen interest in the maintenance of Turkish as a heritage language.