Dr. Semire Dikli

Dr. Semire Dikli is a professor of language and literacy education in the School of Education at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC). She earned her doctorate in multilingual/multicultural education from Florida State University. She has taught courses in English for academic purposes (EAP), English composition, and language, literacy and culture, and field-based education courses at GGC.

Dikli’s early teaching experience includes English as a foreign language (EFL) at the middle school and college levels overseas. During her graduate studies at Florida State University (FSU), she served as a teaching assistant, teaching courses in second language assessment for pre-service teachers. She then worked as a research assistant at the Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) on the grant-funded Individualizing Student Instruction (ISI) project, which focused on supporting teachers in tailoring reading instruction based on students’ reading development. Dikli later served as an English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) program specialist at the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), supporting school districts in implementing ESOL programs in K–12 public schools.

Her research interests focus on writing assessment and educational technology. She has presented her work at regional, national and international conferences, and published on topics including automated essay scoring (AES)/automated writing evaluation (AWE), ESL/EAP writing, ESOL education and internationalized education.