Research
Kenan has published extensively on teacher development, focused on identity development and action research engagement. He often adopts sociocultural theoretical perspectives as a lens for methodology and teacher learning and development. Kenan has co-edited several books on teacher development and research engagement, and he has also co-authored four books focused on various aspects of teaching & learning and pedagogy. He also serves as a reviewer for many journals and leading conferences and has been involved in several international research projects with a recent emphasis of teachers’ research literacy, flipped classroom, feedback literacy, and hybrid learning.
Teaching
Introduction to Teaching and Course Design
Documenting and Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness
Educational Technology
Supervision
Publications
Academic lecture
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Klippen, May Irene Furenes; Keles, Serap (2024). A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Students’ ChatGPT Use in Higher Education. (external link)
- Watson, Lisa; Pezzotta, Micol; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). From identifying workforce needs to co-creating courses. (external link)
- Gokturk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Tsagari, Dina; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Developing Research Literacy of Pre-service Language Teachers in Norway. (external link)
Academic article
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Klippen, May Irene Furenes; Keles, Serap (2024). A Systematic Rapid Review of Empirical Research on Students’ Use of ChatGPT in Higher Education. (external link)
- Ballldaǧ, Sezgin; Dikilitas, Kenan (2024). Non-Native Parents Raising a Bilingual Child in Turkey. (external link)
- Hosseini, Mehrdad; Bahrami, Vahid; Dikilitas, Kenan (2024). From research reading and doing to research use: Tracking trajectories of becoming research-informed second language teachers. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Öztüfekçi, Ali (2024). English language teachers’ implementation of collaborative translanguaging. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Griffiths, Carol (2023). EMI in the Nordic and Baltic Countries. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon (2023). Identity reconstruction through reflection and reflexivity: a new journey beyond the Ph.D. dissertation. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Bahrami, Vahid; Erbakan, Nil Tugce (2023). Bilingual education teachers and learners in a preschool context: Instructional and interactional translanguaging spaces. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Gokturk Saglam, Asli Lidice (2023). Exploring the Practical Impacts of Research Engagement on English Language Teaching: Insights from an Online Community of Practice. (external link)
- Jensen, Ida Bruheim; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). A scoping review of action research in higher education: implications for research-based teaching. (external link)
- Eryilmaz, Rukiye; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Identity tensions of in-service teacher educators: A narrative inquiry. (external link)
- Webb, Rhian; Yuksel, Dogan; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Discipline-specific attitudinal differences of EMI students towards translanguaging. (external link)
- Basar, Serhat; Comoglu, Irem; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Teacher study groups as a collaborative platform for action research: an ecological perspective. (external link)
- Gülşen, Erhan; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). (Re)construction of teacher identities in a soft-CLIL context. (external link)
- Yuzlu, Muhammet Yasar; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Translanguaging as a way to fostering EFL learners’ criticality in a hybrid course design. (external link)
- Inceçay, Volkan; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Online peer observation: Reflections on a process-based job-embedded professional development activity through video recordings. (external link)
- Ural, Onur; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Identity Formation and Career Prospects of Bilingual Professionals: Blending Language Skills to Create Novel Applications to Career Pursuits. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Comoglu, Irem (2022). MENTORING BEGINNING TESOL TEACHER RESEARCHERS: EXPERIENCES FROM INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS. (external link)
- Aslan, Ayca; Erten, Ismail Hakki; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). In-Service EFL teachers’ engagement in reflexive practice via video enhanced observation . (external link)
- Yemez, Nazmiye; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Development of verbal creativity by bilingual and English as foreign language learners in kindergarten to 8th grade schools. (external link)
- Akbana, Yunus Emre; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). EFL Teachers' Sources of Remote Teaching Anxiety: Insights and Implications for EFL Teacher Education. (external link)
- Coşkun, Zeynep Nesrin; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Uncovering Fears, Challenges, and Motives of an Adult Learner with Dyslexia through Metaphors. (external link)
- Ilknur, Eginli; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Examining the Interplay between English Language Teachers’ Mindset and Researcher Self-Efficacy Beliefs in the Use of Action Research. (external link)
- Griffiths, Carol; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Developing Teacher and Learner Autonomy. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Bahrami, Vahid (2022). Teacher Identity (re)Construction in Collaborative Bilingual Education: The Emergence of Dyadic Identity. (external link)
- Yuzlu, Muhammet Yasar; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). The impact of translanguaging-driven training on in-service EFL teachers: Complexity theory prism. (external link)
- Yuzlu, Muhammet Yaşar; Dikilitas, Kenan (2021). Translanguaging in the development of EFL learners’ foreign language skills in Turkish context. (external link)
- Ballidag, Sezgin; Dikilitas, Kenan (2021). Preparatory School Teachers' Self-Directed Online Professional Development. (external link)
- Zilli, Pattamawan Jimarkon; Wanphet, Phalangchok; Dikilitas, Kenan (2021). Pre-service Teachers’ Digital Experiences through Digital Pedagogical Practices in Norway. (external link)
- Consoli, Sal; Dikilitas, Kenan (2021). Research Engagement in Language Education. (external link)
- Wanphet, Phalangchok; Dikilitas, Kenan (2021). Pre-service Teachers’ Digital Experiences through Digital Pedagogical Practices in Norway. (external link)
- Candan, Karolin; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). The perception of university students and instructors towards cooperative learning . (external link)
- Karakaya, Merve; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). Perceptions of the students and the teachers towards the use of code switching in EFL classrooms. (external link)
- Karacan, Cemil Gökhan; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). Vocabulary Learning Strategies of Italian-Turkish Bilingual Students: Impact of Simultaneous and Sequential Acquisition. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon E. (2020). Preschool English teachers gaining bilingual competencies in a monolingual context. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Comoglu, Irem (2020). Pre-service English teachers’ reflective engagement with stories of exploratory action research. (external link)
- Öztüfekçi, Ali; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). An Investigation of an Early Bilingual Child: Phonological Development at its Finest?. (external link)
- Göktürk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). Evaluating an Online Professional Learning Community as a Context for Professional Development in Classroom-based Research. (external link)
- Comoglu, Irem; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). Learning To Become An English Language Teacher: Navigating The Self Through Peer Practicum. (external link)
- Akayoglu, Sedat; Satar Coen, Muge; Dikilitas, Kenan et al. (2020). Digital Literacy practices of Turkish pre-service EFL teachers. (external link)
- Senaydin, Ferah; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Action research for self-evaluation of teaching. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Tanis, Ayfer (2019). Exploring CLIL in Turkish context: Teacher and student voices. (external link)
- Wyatt, Mark; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). English language teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs for grammar instruction: implications for teacher educators. (external link)
- Senaydin, Ferah; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Exploring child bilingual identity in Turkish context: a single case study. (external link)
- Kaya, Mehmet Haldun; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Constructing, Reconstructing and Developing Teacher Identity in Supportive Contexts. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon (2019). Teacher autonomy development through reading teacher research: agency, motivation and identity. (external link)
- Mumford, Simon; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Pre-service language teachers reflection development through online interaction in a hybrid learning course. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Yayli, Demet (2018). Teachers’ professional identity development through action research. (external link)
- Tanis, Ayfer; Dikilitas, Kenan (2018). Turkish EFL Instructors’ Engagement in Professional Development. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Wyatt, Mark (2018). Learning teacher-research-mentoring: stories from Turkey. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon (2016). Supporting the writing up of teacher research: peer and mentor roles. (external link)
- Wyatt, Mark; Dikilitas, Kenan (2016). English language teachers becoming more efficacious through research engagement at their Turkish university. (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- Köylü, Zeynep; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Syntactic and lexical complexity in CLIL and EFL written production: Evidence for ELF as a WEs paradigm in Turkey. (external link)
- Öztüfekçi, Ali; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Engaging in systematic digital reflection : A case of pre-service English teachers . (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Çomoglu, Irem (2023). Pedagogical and conceptual principles of teacher professional learning in TESOL: Teacher stories from Turkey. (external link)
- Arkin, Erkan; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Turkish undergraduates' perspectives on EMI : A framework induced analysis of policies and processes. (external link)
- Wyatt, Mark; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Mentoring in English language education : Using current transnational practices to inform the future. (external link)
- Wyatt, Mark; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). Current developments in mentoring in English language education. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Gokturk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Serra, Mariana et al. (2022). Mentoring presence for supporting international teacher-researchers. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Mumford, Simon (2022). Transformative mentoring in a pre-school bilingual context in Turkey. (external link)
- Khurram, Bushra Ahmed; Dikilitas, Kenan; Zafar, Hadia (2021). Transnational professional development practices in TESOL teacher education. (external link)
- Dilber, Ece; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). The use of DIU in an ESP setting in Turkey. (external link)
- Mumford, Simon; Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). The autoethnography of an re-emerging researcher identity and its impact on EAP teaching. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan (2020). Teacher autonomy and good language teachers. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Teacher researchers. (external link)
Lecture
- Pezzotta, Micol; Watson, Lisa Jean; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Role of stakeholders in co-creating higher education of the future. (external link)
- Watson, Lisa; Pezzotta, Micol; Dikilitas, Kenan (2023). Defining Future Subsurface Education Needs in Collaboration with the Energy Industry: SUBSET: SUBSurface Education for the Energy Transition . (external link)
Article in business/trade/industry journal
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Reynolds, Kate (2022). Research methods in language teaching and learning : A practical guide. (external link)
- Wyatt, Mark; Dikilitas, Kenan (2022). International perspectives on mentoring in English language education . (external link)
- Mede, Enisa; Dikilitas, Kenan; Atay, Derin (2020). Pedagogic and instructional perspectives in language education : The context of higher education. (external link)
- Gokturk Saglam, Asli Lidice; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Stories by Teacher Researchers in an Online Research Community. (external link)
Academic monograph
- Reynolds, Kate; Dikilitas, Kenan; Close, Steven (2021). Introduction to TESOL : Becoming a language teaching professional. (external link)
- Sanchez, Hugo Santiago; Dikilitas, Kenan (2019). Developing Academic Writing Literacy While Responding to Tutor Written Feedback. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Bostancioglu, Ali (2019). Inquiry and research skills for language teachers. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Kesli Dollar, Yesim; Mede, Enisa (2018). English Language Teachers’ Perceptions of Involvement in High-Stakes Testing in Turkey. (external link)
- Gary, Barkhuizen; Burns, Anne; Dikilitas, Kenan et al. (2018). Empowering Teacher-researchers, Empowering learners. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Hanks, Judith (2018). Developing Language Teachers with Exploratory Practice: Innovations and Explorations in Language Education. (external link)
- Kirkgoz, Yasemin; Dikilitas, Kenan (2018). Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education. (external link)
- Burns, Anne; Dikilitas, Kenan; Smith, Richard et al. (2017). Developing Insights into Teacher-research. (external link)
- Dikilitas, Kenan; Griffiths, Carol (2017). Developing Language Teacher Autonomy through Action Research. (external link)
Projects
Teachers' Research Literacy (https://www.realitea.info)
Feedback Literacy (led by Arild Raaheim)