After receiving a bachelor's degree in English language teaching from Cukurova University, she completed her master's degree studying on 'language learning problems in higher education' in the department of curriculum and instruction under educational sciences at Kafkas University, Kars where she worked as lecturer at the school of foreign languages for more than 12 years. She is currently working at Adana Science and Technology University in Adana and pursuing her doctorate in English linguistics in Faculty of Letters at Hacettepe University, Ankara. Areas she enjoys reading: pragmatics, semiotics, sociolinguistics and neurolinguistics.