Dr. Yasemin Özcan Gönülal graduated from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters at Ege University in 2003. She completed her master’s degree (2004-2007) and Ph.D. (2007-2012) at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature Education. She earned her master’s degree with the thesis titled “The Stories of Nebire Gıymatdinova and Educational Elements in the Stories (Introduction-Transcription-Glossary)” in the field of Kazan Tatar, one of the contemporary dialects of Turkish. She completed her doctoral dissertation in 2012 with the thesis titled “Reflections of the Republican Era Language Debates on Turkish Language Education (A Sociolinguistic Study).” She took part in the establishment of the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Ahmet Piriştina City Archive and Museum (APİKAM) and worked there as a “city history research assistant” between 2004 and 2009. Since 2009, she has been working as a Lecturer at the Department of General Culture Courses at İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE). She has held various administrative positions, including Head of Department, Member of the Executive Board of the İYTE Center for Design, Architecture and Urban Studies (TAMİKAM), and Member of the Executive Board of the İYTE Directorate of Education. Her research interests include Turkish language reform, the relationship between language and culture, the İzmir dialect, the intangible cultural heritage of the Urla Peninsula, and artificial intelligence and natural language processing