Biography

Andrew Nelson is from Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance and a Master of Arts in TESOL, both from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He has extensive experience teaching adults at the university level. He has been teaching English at Yachay Tech University since August, 2017, where he employs a teaching philosophy of helping students become self-directed learners. He serves as the Level 6 Coordinator and proctor for the internal English proficiency test.

 

Research interests:

• Second Language Acquisition
• Educational Linguistics
• Pragmatics
• Vocabulary Development

 

Selected publications:

 

Bridging The Gap: Academic English Writing

ISBN 978-9942-42-679-6

http://186.71.28.67/isbn_site/catalogo.php?mode=detalle&nt=85120

 

Improving the Amount and Quality of EFL Students’ Language Production Through Action Research: A Reflective Article (accepted for publication in 2023 in ARTESOL EFL Journal, ISSN 2422 6475)