Martiniano Etchart

Credentials: Advisors: Cathy Stafford and Julia Goetze

Email: metchart@wisc.edu

An Argentina native, I joined the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Doctoral Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021, and later became a joint-degree graduate student in SLA and Spanish Linguistics. Prior to coming to UW-Madison, I completed my undergraduate degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in my home country, where I graduated with honors, and I earned a M.A. in Spanish as a Second or Bilingual Language from Michigan State University.

I am an English and Spanish language educator as well as a former Fulbright scholar (Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program 2018-2019), and I have around 10 years of experience in the field of (second/foreign language) education.

My research lies at the intersection of education, applied linguistics, and psychology. I am particularly interested in the role that cognition (e.g., knowledge, perceptions, beliefs) and affect (e.g., grit, anxiety, enjoyment) can have on second/foreign language (L2) educators’ and learners’ behaviors and well-being within formally instructed contexts at the various levels. In my dissertation, through a mixed-methods approach, I explore language teachers’ emotional states and social networks within and towards the diverse professional contexts where they work on an under-researched population of which little is known: Language teachers in Argentina.

Preferred pronouns: He/him/él
How to pronounce my name: [mar-tee-nee-AH-noh]
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