Michael Pierce

ENC 1101/1102 and EAP Professor

BA Taylor University

MAEd Ball State University

EdS Multicultural/Multilingual Education, Florida State University

ENC 1101/1102 and EAP professor at Valencia College since Fall 2013.

Government contractor: English Language Training, Royal Saudi Air Force language program, Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas (2016)

Elementary ESOL teacher eight years in Hillsborough County (1991-1999)

District ESOL Teacher Trainer for Hillsborough, Leon, Gadsden, and Jefferson Counties (1993-2012)

Fulbright-Hayes Group Project. Six-week expedition through Honduras for cross-cultural studies and curriculum development (1993)

ESL/EAP Instructor at Hillsborough Community College and Tallahassee Community College (1993-1999; 2003-2012)

Assistant Professor & ESOL Curriculum Specialist at Flagler College-Tallahassee (2001-2012)

ESOL Teacher and Teacher Trainer in Taiwan (ROC) summers 2006-2009; 2011, 2015

ESOL Teacher and Teacher Trainer in China (Summer 2014)

Summer English Language Instructor at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA 2010)

Florida State University Adjunct Instructor 2002-2008):
*TSL 4324 ESOL for the Content Areas, School of Teacher Education

*EEC 4930-02, -03 Beginning Reading for Elementary Teachers and LAE 4314-02: Elementary Language Arts Methods.

*EDE 4341 Educational Technology for Elementary and Middle Grades.

High school ESOL teacher at Lake Mary Preparatory (FL) 2012-2013

Articulation Clinician (private practice)
Articulation management training and accent reduction for adult English Language Learners.

Publication:
*Hwang, S., Piazza, C., Pierce, M., & Bryce, S. (2011). “My heart want to say something”: exploring ELL vocabulary use through e-mail. Multicultural Education & Technology Journal. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, UK. www.emeraldinsight.com/1750-497X.htm.

*Roehrig, A.D., Bodur, Y., Guidry, L.O., Guan, Q., Guo, Y., & Pierce, M. (2006, April). The development of preservice teachers' beliefs about effective teachers and teaching. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

*One Student, Two Literacies. Educational Horizons. Pi Lambda Theta, PO Box 6626, Bloomington, Indiana 47407-6626. Summer 2003. Co-authored with Pamela “Sissi” Carroll, PhD, Florida State University.

Research Projects:

Phonological Development of an English/Vietnamese-speaking Child. Long-range case study of the male offspring of a Caucasian American mother and Vietnamese father.

Dialectal Phonology Project: A collection of video-taped native and non-native English speaking volunteers reading pre-selected passages for phonetic, sociolinguistic and/or psycholinguistic analysis for student projects in ESL 325 Applied Linguistics for Educators.

Flagler Discourse Analysis Project: A collection of video-taped native and non-native English speaking volunteers engaged in various speech acts for discourse analysis for students in ESL 325 Applied Linguistics for Educators.


Multicultural Aspects of Speech-Language Errors. Advanced evaluation and management of fossilized articulatory errors in adult second language learners from Spain and Peru.

Phonological Management of Linguistically Diverse Populations: Articulation dissimilarities and the role of native and second languages in the co-management of communication errors in students at the Center for Intensive English Studies at Florida State University.

The Waleed Project: A Presentation of a Discourse Analysis Task for LAE 5738: Linguistic Research in Language Education. The event features an American native English speaker and a Persian-speaking medical doctor from Iraq.

Cross-cultural Student/Teacher Interaction for FLE 5775: Research in Second Language Learning and Teaching. The event features an American native English speaker and a Persian-speaking medical doctor from Iraq.

Phonological Errors in Second Language Acquisition for LIN 5705: Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Language Acquisition and Development. The event features Persian-speaking medical doctor from Iraq.

A Communicative Analysis between an Iranian Tutee and Native English-Speaking Tutor for LIN 5932: Topics in Linguistics: Pragmatics, as well as for ANG 5677: Sociolinguistics. The event features an American native English speaker and a Persian-speaking medical doctor from Iraq.

How does the use of technology in the classroom affect students’ achievement in language skills? for LAE 5915: Technology and Language Arts Skills Acquisition. An experimental multicultural class of eighth grade students was created to provide technology-driven teaching/learning and ESL methods to augment below-average language arts skills in native English speakers.

ESOL Inservice Framework for Applied Linguistics: A Component of the Florida DOE ESOL Teaching Endorsement, (co-developing and co-teaching FLE 4794: Applied Linguistics in Second Language Learning with Dr. Elizabeth J. Platt) for TSL 5938: Supervised Curriculum Development in Applied Linguistics.

A Program for Supporting Multicultural Vocabulary. Integrating English, Spanish, and French Commonalities via Latin and Greek Word Origins: An English Guidebook for Levels 3 and 4 Romance ESOL Learners in the Intermediate Grades for LIN 6932: Curriculum Development in ESOL (University of South Florida).

Conference Presenter: First language interferences. April 2005. Providing knowledge and skills to enable elementary teachers to meet Pennsylvania ESL Academic Standards. Two sessions. DeSales University/Lehigh Carbon Community College teacher training conference, Allentown-Schnecksville, PA. (www.lccc.edu/facultyweb/laura/programs.htm).

Conference Presenter: Program reviews: how they make you better. April 2004. Sunshine State TESOL 2004. Tampa. Co-presented with Jude Lupinetti, PhD, Flagler College, St. Augustine campus.

Conference Presenter: Beginning reading and applied phonetics for second language learners. April 2003. ProjectTELL. Providing knowledge and skills to enable elementary teachers to meet Pennsylvania ESL Academic Standards. Three sessions. A DeSales University/Lehigh Carbon Community College teacher training conference, Allentown-Schnecksville, PA.

Guest Lecturer. Applied Phonetics. Spring 2004.Florida State University, Center for Intensive English Studies: Patrick Kennell, PhD, Director, (pkennell@cpd.fsu.edu).

Guest Lecturer: Brief survey of the history of English spelling. Spring 2003. Elementary Education: Carolyn Piazza, PhD, cpiazza@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.

Guest Lecturer: Infusing ESOL competencies into Language Arts & English Education. Spring 2003. College of Education, Secondary Education: Pamela S. Carroll, PhD, pcarroll@garnet.fsu.edu and Elementary Education: Carolyn Piazza, PhD, cpiazza@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.




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