Dr. Carlo Cinaglia

Dr. Carlo Cinaglia is an Assistant Professor of Second Language Education in the School of Teacher Education at Florida State University. His research uses ethnographic, narrative, and discourse analytic approaches to investigate and support the experiences of students and teachers engaged in additional language education. Specifically, his work examines language learning investment, linguistic identity development, and enrollment/continuation trajectories among students engaged in postsecondary world language study, as well as identity, wellbeing, and emotion labor among pre-service and in-service language teachers in a variety of contexts. He is also interested in research ethics and qualitative research methodology more broadly. His work has been supported by research grants from the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations as well as ACTFL (formerly the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages), and has appeared in venues such as the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, and TESOL Quarterly, among others. Prior to joining FSU, he worked for several years as a university instructor, teaching undergraduate courses in linguistics, TESOL, Spanish and English as additional languages, as a community language educator, developing and teaching English language classes in various community organizations throughout Philadelphia, PA, and as a mentor to pre-service language teachers completing their teaching practicum.