Earl Wilson Stevick (/ˈstiːvɪk/;[1] October 23, 1923 – August 13, 2013)[2] was an expert in language learning and teaching.

After he received his PhD, Stevick began teaching at Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee.

He then worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, creating courses to learn local African languages.

[2] As a linguist, Stevick was particularly interested in recording the tones of African tonal languages.

Stevick was one of a small group of language educators who created the Master of Arts in Teaching degree at the SIT Graduate Institute in 1969.