Applied linguistics with English language edcation as focus are interdisciplinary in nature. Before education my undergraduate and master was on English literature. Since my studies have been mainly on facilitation of learning through memory aids (puns, keyword-semantic methodsI also developed a memory model for the English tense), and use of technology (turkcealtyazi.org, subtitles, Netflix, which can be turned into also Language Reactor Chrome extension, Google operators and transcripts) My latest research inclded US presidential election as on eof the topics. However I also have commentary category paper on Covid