Jacob William Somerlot is a linguist, teacher, and researcher from America who has ten years of ESL/EFL teaching experience. He has taught EAP, ESP, university-level English, English for early-age education, English for immigration, and workplace language training and currently teaches and proofreads at Üsküdar University's English prep school. He is fluent in Russian, Turkish, and French and has an intermediate knowledge of Quranic Arabic. He has a bachelor's degree in Russian linguistics and a second bachelor's degree in Islamic studies (both from The Ohio State University) as well as a master's degree in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies (from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada). He is also learning Modern Standard Arabic, Persian, German, Greek, Spanish, and Finnish on his own and has taken Hittite, Akkadian, Luwian, and Sumerian courses via Koç University. In addition to his teaching and language learning, he has conducted research for the OSCE academy in Bishkek. This research involved analyzing policy briefs in both Russian and English and producing a systematic literature review based on data analysis. His general academic interests include ancient and modern religions, heterodoxy in religion, ancient and modern languages, second language acquisition, and geopolitics.
jacobwilliam.somerlot
uskudar.edu.tr
(0216) 400 2222