Dilşah KALAY has been working as an assistant professor at Kütahya Dumlupinar University (DPÜ), School of Foreign Languages, since 2019. In 2011, she earned her BA degree in Foreign Language Education from Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, Turkey. Between 2012 and 2019, she first worked at İzmir Katip Çelebi University and then at DPÜ as a lecturer. In 2019, she completed her Ph.D. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey, with the dissertation “Implicit Phrasal Verb Knowledge Gains through Conceptual Metaphor Theory: A Case of University Prep School Students” supported and funded as a Scientific Research Project (Project No: 1801E036). Dr. Kalay also works as both the departmental head and the assistant principal of the School of Foreign Languages at DPÜ. Her current research interests include applied linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, vocabulary acquisition, language processing, teacher education, and learner-teacher perceptions, young learner education.