Minela Sinanović-Vefić, MA, is a Senior Associate for Language at the Faculty of Education in the TLT program. Minela completed her undergraduate studies (Department for Oriental Philology, Turkish Language and Literature and Arabic Language and Literature) and MA degree (Department for Oriental Philology, Turkish Language and Literature) at the University of Sarajevo. At the beginning of her career, she worked at several elementary schools, gymnasiums, faculties and Fojnica Yunus Emre Institute as a Turkish Language instructor. She teaches Spoken Turkish Language I and II to undergraduate freshman students at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS). Her interests include linguistics, teaching methodologies, and literature.