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Teresa P. Pica
Born(1945-09-26)September 26, 1945
DiedNovember 15, 2011(2011-11-15) (aged 66)
Other namesTere Pica
OccupationProfessor of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Years active1983-2011
Known forTask-based language learning
Academic background
Education

Teresa P. Pica (26 September 1945 – 15 November 2011), also known as Tere Pica, was a 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.

Early years

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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]

Education

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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]

Teaching

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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]

Personal life

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Dr. Pica was married to Robert Hamilton. She died in 2011 at her home in Philadelphia of viral encephalitis.[3]

Select publications

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  • — (December 1983). "Adult Acquisition of English as a Second Language Under Different Conditions of Exposure". Language Learning. 33 (4): 465–497. doi:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1983.tb00945.x.
  • — (June 1985). "The Role of Group Work in Classroom Second Language Acquisition". Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 7 (2): 233–248. doi:10.1017/S0272263100005398. ISSN 1470-1545.
  • — (September 1994). "Research on Negotiation: What Does It Reveal About Second-Language Learning Conditions, Processes, and Outcomes?". Language Learning. 44 (3): 493–527. doi:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1994.tb01115.x.
  • — (1996). "Language Learners' Interaction: How Does It Address the Input, Output, and Feedback Needs of L2 Learners?". TESOL Quarterly. 30 (1): 59–84. doi:10.2307/3587607. ISSN 0039-8322. JSTOR 3587607.
  • — (2005). "Classroom Learning, Teaching, and Research: A Task-Based Perspective". The Modern Language Journal. 89 (3): 339–352. doi:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2005.00309.x. ISSN 0026-7902. JSTOR 3588662.

References

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  1. ^ "Teresa P. Pica, In Memoriam". Penn GSE. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on November 22, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Among the Graduates". The Bridgeport Post. Bridgeport, Connecticut. July 7, 1969. p. 24.
  3. ^ a b c Cook, Bonnie L. (December 2, 2011). "Teresa Pica, 66, professor at Penn Graduate School of Education". The Inquirer. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Teresa P. Pica". Penn GSE. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  5. ^ Hornberger, Nancy H. (Fall 2001). "Educational Linguistics as a Field: A View from Penn's Program on the Occasion of its 25th Anniversary" (PDF). Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, V. 17. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  6. ^ "Video of Memorial Service for Tere Pica, timestamp 16:15". PennGSE Video.
  7. ^ Williams, Jessica (1987). Production principles in non-native institutionalized varieties of english (PhD thesis). ProQuest 303608113.
  8. ^ Doughty, Catherine J. S. (1988). The effect of instruction on the acquisition of relativization in English as a second language (PhD thesis). ProQuest 303695616.
  9. ^ Young, Richard Frederick. Variation in interlanguage morphology: (s) plural-marking in the speech of Chinese learners of English (PhD thesis). ProQuest 303713038.
  10. ^ Jakar, Valerie S. A society contained, a culture maintained: An ethnography of second language acquisition in informal education (PhD thesis). ProQuest 304222540.
  11. ^ Labov, Joanna L. The roles of distinctive and redundant features in the production of the short A and E vowel contrast by L1 German speakers of English (PhD thesis). ProQuest 304614115.
  12. ^ Sauro, Shannon. "A comparative study of recasts and metalinguistic feedback through computer mediated communication on the development of L2 knowledge and production accuracy". Retrieved 2012-05-28.
  13. ^ "Video of Memorial Service for Tere Pica, timestamp 18:45". PennGSE Video.
  14. ^ Scheyder, Elizabeth C. The impact of recordings on student achievement in critical language courses (PhD thesis). ProQuest 1019985440.
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