Terry McLean

Terry McLean is a Lecturer at the School of Continuing Education, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta. His expertise spans ESL curriculum design, pragmatic awareness, and pedagogical innovation in language education. McLean has contributed extensively to discussions on cross-cultural communication challenges, online learning strategies, and grammar instruction techniques.

• Current affiliation: MacEwan University (2025)
• Research focus: Pragmatics in L2 acquisition and pedagogical adaptation

McLean’s research explores pragmatic awareness in language learning, cross-cultural misinterpretations of silence, and innovative teaching methods. He has developed frameworks for using breakout rooms in remote instruction, gamified learning activities (e.g., "Games of Lies"), and strategies to bridge sentence-level grammar to paragraph-level writing. His work often integrates humor and cultural narratives to enhance engagement.

From 2001 to 2025, McLean published 20+ pedagogical articles. Recent works (2025) address asynchronous learning tools like "Flip and TILT" and writing instruction through thought-group analysis. Earlier studies (2020–2018) focus on managing virtual classrooms and pragmatic discourse tasks. Older publications (2006–2004) examine cultural context in debates and sentence variety in ESL writing.