Nicholas Santavicca

faculty

Nicholas Santavicca, PhD

Associate Professor / Director, American Language and Cultural Institute

English & Communication

Contact

508-999-9271

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Liberal Arts 308

Education

2014Texas Tech UniversityPhD
2007University of CincinnatiMEd
2001University of KentuckyBA

Teaching

  • ESL/Multilingual Education
  • Bilingual/Dual Education
  • International Student Education
  • Queer/Diversity Studies

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Practicum-based course for students to teach English as a second language. Engaged with approaches aligned with the Professional Standards for Teaching and the Subject Matter Knowledge outlined by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, students plan state-of-the-art curriculum, instruction, and assessment by using methods, strategies, and techniques appropriate for children in PreK-12 contexts.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

Lecture based course through the application of theory. This course prepares candidates to integrate literacy and sociolinguistics across instructional contexts to support understandings, construction, and development of the English language. This course highlights facilitation, mediation and intervention in the development of English as a second, foreign or other language through instruction across myriad educational contexts including, but not limited to: very young learners, K-12, adult, mixed level, nationally and abroad, in formal and informal, and private and public schools. The course foregrounds the connection between language, literacy, and sociolinguistics as a vehicle for developing and articulating one's personal praxis in TESOL.

Inservice teacher pathway. Building on teaching experience, this course will ask students to demonstrate and evaluate instructional pedagogical practices. In this experience, students will plan, teach, and reflect on multiple classroom experiences. The focus of the course is to improve instructional strategies and connect best teaching practices as presented in research literature.
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Practicum-based course for students to teach English as a second language. Engaged with approaches aligned with the Professional Standards for Teaching and the Subject Matter Knowledge outlined by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, students plan state-of-the-art curriculum, instruction, and assessment by using methods, strategies, and techniques appropriate for children in PreK-12 contexts.
Register for this course.

Theory and practice of teaching secondary English in its three dominant areas of reading, writing, and rhetorical analysis of literary works. Special focus will be upon how students acquire language and theoretical skills within the complex milieu of classrooms and how teachers can enhance that learning by translating sound theory into a broad range of learning activities and classroom strategies. This course is required for certification in secondary English teaching in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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Research

Research interests

  • Language & culture acquisition and methods
  • Language assessment/curriculum design
  • Diversity issues in education & communication

Nicholas Santavicca (PhD in ESL/Bilingual Education, Texas Tech University) is an Associate Professor of English & Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA, and the founding Director of the American Language & Cultures Institute at UMassD. He has taught language education courses for more than 15 years. He has held teaching and administrative positions in both K-12 and higher educational settings in the United States and abroad (from China to Spain). His current research reimagines assessment practices, curriculum design, and school policy(s) for multilingual/multicultural students, and international students from k-12 through higher education.