Teresa P. Pica | |
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Born | September 26, 1945 |
Died | November 15, 2011 | (aged 66)
Other names | Tere Pica |
Occupation | Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education |
Years active | 1983-2011 |
Known for | Task-based language learning |
Academic background | |
Education |
Teresa P. Pica (26 September 1945 – 15 November 2011), also known as Tere Pica, was Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, a post she held from 1983 until her death in 2011. [1] Her areas of expertise included second language acquisition, language curriculum design, approaches to classroom practice, and classroom discourse analysis. Pica was well known for her pioneering work in task-based language learning and published widely in established international journals in the field of English as a foreign or second language and applied linguistics.
Before entering the field of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Pica was a speech and language pathologist, working at the Child Development Center in Mount Vernon, New York, where she established a pre-school language stimulation program. [2]
Pica graduated from Trumbull High School in 1963, and then attended the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in English and speech communications. [3] She received her master's degree in speech pathology from Columbia University in 1969. [3] [2] She earned her Ph.D. in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in three years, graduating in 1982. [4]
In 1983, she took over the position of her advisor, Michael Long, who left Penn in 1982. [5]
Pica supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations at Penn and at universities abroad. Some of her best-known advisees include her first two doctoral students, [6] Jessica Williams (1987) [7] and Catherine Doughty (1988), [8] as well as Richard Young, [9] Valerie Jakar, [10] Joanna Labov, [11] and Shannon Sauro. [12] Pica's last doctoral student to complete was Elizabeth Scheyder. [13] [14]
Dr. Pica was married to Robert Hamilton. She died in 2011 at her home in Philadelphia of viral encephalitis. [3]
Teresa P. Pica | |
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Born | September 26, 1945 |
Died | November 15, 2011 | (aged 66)
Other names | Tere Pica |
Occupation | Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education |
Years active | 1983-2011 |
Known for | Task-based language learning |
Academic background | |
Education |
Teresa P. Pica (26 September 1945 – 15 November 2011), also known as Tere Pica, was Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, a post she held from 1983 until her death in 2011. [1] Her areas of expertise included second language acquisition, language curriculum design, approaches to classroom practice, and classroom discourse analysis. Pica was well known for her pioneering work in task-based language learning and published widely in established international journals in the field of English as a foreign or second language and applied linguistics.
Before entering the field of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Pica was a speech and language pathologist, working at the Child Development Center in Mount Vernon, New York, where she established a pre-school language stimulation program. [2]
Pica graduated from Trumbull High School in 1963, and then attended the College of New Rochelle, where she graduated in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in English and speech communications. [3] She received her master's degree in speech pathology from Columbia University in 1969. [3] [2] She earned her Ph.D. in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education in three years, graduating in 1982. [4]
In 1983, she took over the position of her advisor, Michael Long, who left Penn in 1982. [5]
Pica supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations at Penn and at universities abroad. Some of her best-known advisees include her first two doctoral students, [6] Jessica Williams (1987) [7] and Catherine Doughty (1988), [8] as well as Richard Young, [9] Valerie Jakar, [10] Joanna Labov, [11] and Shannon Sauro. [12] Pica's last doctoral student to complete was Elizabeth Scheyder. [13] [14]
Dr. Pica was married to Robert Hamilton. She died in 2011 at her home in Philadelphia of viral encephalitis. [3]