Biography
I enjoy working as a teacher educator focusing on second language teaching and learning research issues. My family and I are immigrants from Roma, Italia, and I have enjoyed being raised in America. I am pleased to contribute pedagogically appropriate research and teaching specific to English learners' needs.
Research Interests
Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory and Gesture; Applied Linguistics; Second Language teaching and learning; Gesture and second language learning; Embodied Learning; Ecosocial Second Language LearningTeaching Interests
Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning and Development; Dual Language Immersion teaching and content; Ecological/Eco-social learning and development;Honors and Awards
- Experiential Learning Grant (Rejected), BYU - MSE (2020 - 2021)
- President's Innovation Fund Research-Practice Partnership (PIF-RPP, Brigham Young University (2020 - 2020)
- Visiting Scholar Grant, McKay School of Education - BYU (2012 - 2013)
Memberships
- Northeast Modern Language Association (2020 - Present)
- Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA) (2018 - Present)
- International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) (2017 - Present)
- American Association of Applied Linguistics (2007 - Present)
- Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning Working Group (2007 - Present)
Professional Citizenship
- Adjudicator, American Educational Research Association (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Apples, Journal of Applied Language Studies (2023 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Language and Sociocultural Theory (Journal) (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Linguistics and Education (2023 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Teacher Education (2023 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Language and Sociocultural Theory (Journal) (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (2020 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Language Awareness (Journal) (2019 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Pedagogy (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Journal of English Studies (2018 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, TESOL Quarterly (2015 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Language and Sociocultural Theory (2013 - Present)