PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Tom Pierce began teaching English in the United States to both native and non-native speakers of English. He has worked with homogeneous groups of Hispanic, Navajo, Japanese, Polish, and Korean students. In the U.S., he worked in public schools and for the Oklahoma State University’s English Language Institute. In Korea, he worked first with Oklahoma State University’s Seoul Twinning Institute. He is now a TESOL instructor at Sookmyung Women’s University. His focus there has been largely teaching composition and English for Academic Purposes. He has worked with students from kindergarten to graduate level. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and a Master’s of Education in TESOL from the University of New Mexico.

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