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Areas of Professional Study and Interest:
Rick Nelson first became interested in language teaching as an LDS
missionary in Taiwan. "We used English classes as a missionary
tool," he said. "My senior companions didn't want to teach the
classes, so they often gave the English-teaching assignments to
me." That began a career in language teaching that has lasted
almost thirty years. Nelson received a Bachelor's degree in English
from Utah State University and a Master's degree in English as a Second
Language from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Before coming to
BYU-Hawaii in 1994, Nelson taught for a year in Japan and for fifteen
years at Kansai Gaidai Hawaii College in Honolulu. His interests
include all things Asian, especially the languages of China and
Japan. In addition to teaching classes, Nelson works as the
writing coordinator in the department of English as an International
Language. He spends his free time explaining English grammar to
clever-but-bewildered students-and to anyone else who cares to listen.
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