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Merih Yenidunya is a recipient of the 2004-2005 Fulbright IIE award in the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program. Merih arrived in the United States on August 9, 2004 from Istanbul, Turkey.Merih received her BA in English Language Teaching from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to her acceptance in the FLTA program, Merih taught English at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Trakya University in Edirne for 3 years. She taught English Grammar, English for Special Purposes, Listening and Speaking Skills of English. Merih aspires to teach UT students about the Turkish language and culture via both a traditional and contemporary perspective that includes the diversities influenced by both Eastern and Western cultures. Hence, she’d like to use culture oriented audio-visual and printed materials in her language course and hopes to demonstrate how culture and language affect commercials by displaying TV scenes in class.Merih’s non-academic interests include deejaying and designing clothes. She plans to focus on dialects spoken throughout the U.S. as a future research project. Upon her return to Turkey, Merih plans to continue teaching at Trakya University and she believes that her experience at U.T. will add a different perspective to her teaching skills as she’s teaching her native language for the first time.