MrAbdullah Mert Pekel

Graduate Researcher

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

  • Graduate Researcher
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Mert is exploring neurodivergent students’ use of generative AI for academic literacies in a cotutelle project with Coventry University, UK. He gained his Master’s in English as a Second Language and has 14 years EFL teaching experience as well as Turkish as a foreign language through the Fulbright FLTA Program. He explored EFL students` perceived academic listening comprehension problems in the Turkish higher education context. 

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Graduate Researcher
    Deakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Education

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Graduate Researcher
    Coventry University, Centre for Global Learning (GLEA), Coventry, United KingdomMay 2024 - present
  • ESL Instructor
    Marmara University, School of Foreign Languages, Istanbul, TürkiyeFeb 2012 - present
  • Turkish Language Instructor
    University of Pennsylvania, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Philadelphia, United StatesAug 2015 - May 2016

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Educational Technology Office Coordinator
    Marmara University, School of Foreign Languages, Istanbul, TürkiyeJan 2016 - May 2024

DEGREES

  • M.A. in English Language Teaching
    Marmara University, Istanbul, Türkiye2016 - 2019
  • B.A. in English Language Teaching
    Cukurova University, Adana, TürkiyeSep 2005 - Jun 2009

LANGUAGES

  • Turkish
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Education