John Unger teaches Academic Writing, Academic Speaking, and is developing ESOL curriculum at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri U.S.A. He has worked and studied in a wide variety of ESL/EFL contexts for 18 years. He has published, presented papers and workshops, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses revolving around TESOL, gesture and language, writing, developmental English, linguistics, traditional English grammar and usage, literacy, semiotics and video games, and multilingual/ multicultural education. His current research revolves around different types of semiotic literacies that can be developed as supporting tools for English language learners in K-12, Academic ESL, and transitional literacy-learning contexts. Before his life in higher education, John spent four years in the U.S. Navy and fifteen seasons on coastal and deep-sea commercial fishing boats in the Northern Pacific, Gulf of Alaska, and Bering Sea.

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