Dr. Burcu ŞENTÜRK holds a BA degree in English Language Teaching from Middle East Technical University (METU). She received an MA degree in English Language Teaching/TEFL from Bilkent University MA TEFL Program and PhD in the Department of English Language Education at Hacettepe University. She is an Assistant Professor Dr. at Bartin University Foreign Language Education Department. She is also the Head of the same department and the director of the School of Foreign Languages at Bartın University. Her main teaching and research interests are educational linguistics, self-assessment, CEFR, Language Teacher Education, English Language Teaching and language teaching methodology.