TALLAHASSEE, FL, February 07, 2023 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Hilal Peker, Ph.D., has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
An expert in teaching English, Dr. Peker has found success as a dedicated educator for more than 16 years. To prepare for her career, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English language teaching from Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 2007. Well qualified in her profession, she holds numerous professional certifications, including a TESOL Core Certificate, and has completed multiple training courses, including in value-based mentoring training, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling training, and Grantsmanship training.
While living in Turkey, Dr. Peker began her career with the Middle East Technical University Development Foundation Schools in 2003, and became a middle school English teacher for the Tekdil Private Language Institute in 2007. Following this period, she served as a language instructor and lecturer for the Evrendil Private Language Institute and a Comenius Lifelong Learning Program language teacher for Rapla Ühisgümnaasium, Estonia. Additionally, she served as a visiting scholar for both Vilniaus Universitetas and Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Throughout this period, Dr. Peker also functioned as a language instructor for Evrendil Private Language Institute and for Anadolu University from 2009 to 2011.
As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Peker attained a Master of Arts in foreign language education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and a Doctor of Philosophy in TESOL education from the University of Central Florida in 2016. She worked as an Assistant Professor of Foreign and Second Language Education (FSLE) at Florida State University between 2016 and 2018 coordinating the M.A. and TESOL Certificate Programs. After returning to Turkey in 2018, Dr. Peker worked as an Assistant Professor of TEFL and Curriculum & Instruction at Bilkent University completing her Fulbright requirement in Turkey.
Since 2021, Dr. Peker has been a permanent resident of the U.S. and has been working as the Federal Projects Coordinator and Educational Policy Consultant for the Florida Department of Education. Dr. Peker has been designing professional development opportunities for federal programs and providing technical assistance to all K-12 schools in Florida State. Being a dedicated professor, Dr. Peker teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses at University of Central Florida (UCF), Florida State University (FSU), and Framingham State University, and supervises two dissertations at Saint Leo University and two at Bilkent University besides her administrative responsibilities at her current job. As part of her career, she has also authored numerous works and edited and reviewed other contributions to the field. To wit, she is a manuscript reviewer for several prestigious journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Foreign Language Annals, TESOL Journal, MexTESOL Journal, and Journal of Research in Childhood Education, among several other journals. She is also a co-editor for the Journal of Narrative and Language Studies.
In addition to her main career in TESOL education, Dr. Peker has been serving on several professional boards and committees, including the Turkish Fulbright Commission and the Florida Educational Research Association, among others. She was also the founder and president of the World Languages Education Student Association at the University of Central Florida. Likewise, she served as a peer counselor and tutor for foster children at the First Star Academy Community Based Care of Central Florida and as an anti-bullying and ESL support coordinator for the Hope Community Center. Additionally, she serves as a proposal reviewer for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, American Association for Applied Linguistics, and TESOL International Association.
Dr. Peker's early educational endeavors were supported with a Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship. Over the course of her professional journey, Dr. Peker has been consistently lauded for her excellent work and dedication. She received the Early Career Award from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and two Professional Development Scholarships Awards from the TESOL International Association, and was honored with a Santillana Scholar Award from the National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL), a Teaching Assistantship Excellence Award from the University of Central Florida and a Research Travel Award from the Council on Research in Education at Florida State University. Additionally, she has earned several grants over the years, including a Language Learning for Children Special Interest Group Grant from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and a Sunshine State TESOL Dissertation Research Grant from Sunshine State TESOL, and also several simulation technology grants during her time at Florida State University.
Dr. Peker is the current Associate Chair of the TESOL International Association Conferences Professional Council, and she will be organizing the 2024 TESOL International Convention as the Chair with her team in Tampa, FL.
Having led a successful career, Dr. Peker intends to continue her work to gain valuable experience in the realm of academia as a professor and an academic administrator. To this end, she aspires to apply for an associate professorship where she can assume control over some administrative responsibilities, possibly becoming a dean or a department chair at a university in the future.
Marquis Who's Who Top Educators: https://marquistopeducators.com/2022/09/12/hilal-peker/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilalpeker2018/
Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/HilalPeker2
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hilal-Peker
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2642-3015
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IdnqgfgAAAAJ&view_op= ... MKi0-xwabo
Book Chapter
1. Peker, H. (2022). Conducting a non-experimental design quantitative study and the application of partial least squares structural equation modeling. In K. Dikilitaş & K. Mastruserio Reynolds (Eds.), Research Methods in Language Teaching and Learning. Wiley.
Invited Peer-Revied Special Issue Articles
1. Peker, H., & Rosa-Lugo, L. (2021). Speech–language pathology graduate students' questioning strategies for English learners in a simulation environment. Topics in Language Disorders (TLD) Special Issue: Directions in Addressing the Language and Literacy Needs of Children across the Bilingual Continuum, 41(4), 347-366. https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000264
2. Peker, H. (2020). Feared L2 self as an emerging component of the reconceptualized L2 motivational self system. The Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics (EJAL), 6(3), 361-386. http://dx.doi.org/10.32601/ejal.834658
Published Peer-Reviewed Articles
1. Peker, H., & Regalla, M. (2021). Making exemption the exception, not the rule: A case for including all students in foreign language education. Foreign Language Annals, 54(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12513
2. Peker, H., & Akkaya, Ö. (2020). The emergence of English as a lingua digital within chaos/complexity theory framework. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS), 8(14), 80-92. https://www.nalans.com/index.php/nalans/article/view/241/159
3. Peker, H. (2020). Lived experiences of voluntary pre-service foreign language teachers in an inclusive early foreign language program. Journal of Foreign Language Education and Technology (JFLET), 5(1), 35-66. http://jflet.com/jflet/index.php/jflet/article/view/183/267
4. Peker, H., Regalla, M., & Cox, T. (2018). Teaching and learning vocabulary in context: Examining engagement in three prekindergarten French classrooms. Foreign Language Annals, 51(2), 472-483. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/flan.12338
5. Regalla, M., & Peker, H. (2017). Prompting all students to learn: Examining dynamic assessment in a pre-kindergarten, inclusive French program. Foreign Language Annals, 50(2), 323–338. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/flan.12261/full
6. Regalla, M., & Peker, H. (2015). Early language learning for all: Examination of a prekindergarten French program in an inclusion setting. Foreign Language Annals, 48(4), 618-634. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/flan.12156/full
Invited Peer Reviewed Book Reviews
1. Mihai, F. M., & Peker, H. (2016, January 13). Getting to know ourselves and others through the ABCs. [Review of the book Getting to know ourselves and others through the ABCs: A journey toward intercultural understanding, by Claudia Finkbeiner & Althier M. Lazar]. Teachers College Record, ID Number: 19327. Retrieved from http://www.tcrecord.org/books/Content.asp?ContentId=19327
Peer Reviewed Book Reviews
1. Peker, H., & Toprak-Celen, E. (2020, May 22). Language teacher psychology. [Review of the book Language teacher psychology, by S. Mercer & A. Kostoulas]. TESOL Journal, 11(2), 1-3. doi:10.1002/tesj.493 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tesj.493
2. Peker, H. (2017, February 1). Multiple perspectives on the self in SLA. [Review of the book multiple perspectives on the self in SLA, by Sarah Mercer & Marion Williams]. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 16(1), 62-64. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348458.2016.1274207
3. Peker, H. (2015, August 25). Educating English learners: What every classroom teacher needs to know. [Review of the book Educating English learners: What every classroom teacher needs to know, by J. Nutta, C. Strebel, K. Mokhtari, F. Mihai, & E. Crevecoeur-Bryant]. TESOL Journal, 6(3), 600-603. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tesj.205/pdf
Keynotes
1. Peker, H. (2022, November 10). The shift in teacher education programs around the world: Are we ready for simulations? Keynote at the 2nd International and 5th National Conference on Formative Research and Hotbeds of Research in Foreign Languages, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO), Bogota, Colombia.
https://eventos.uniminuto.edu/67248/speakers/global-perspectives-in-t ... tices.html
2. Peker, H. (2020, October 28). Imagining a non-victimized balanced self in the era of refugee and immigrant traumas. Keynote at the 6th International Conference on Teaching and Learning English as an Additional Language (GlobELT) Conference, Budva, Montenegro. http://www.globeltconference.com/keynote_speakers.html
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