Teresa P. Pica (26 September 1945 – 15 November 2011), also known as Tere Pica, was a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, a post she held from 1983 until her death in 2011.

Pica was well known for her pioneering work in task-based language learning and published widely in established international journals in the field of English as a foreign or second language and applied linguistics.

[3] She received her master's degree in speech pathology from Columbia University in 1969.

[5] Pica supervised more than 50 doctoral dissertations at Penn and at universities abroad.

Some of her best-known advisees include her first two doctoral students,[6] Jessica Williams (1987)[7] and Catherine Doughty (1988),[8] as well as Richard Young,[9] Valerie Jakar,[10] Joanna Labov,[11] and Shannon Sauro.