Carlo Cinaglia

I am an Assistant Professor of Second Language Education at Florida State University. I use qualitative research methods to investigate and support the experiences of students and teachers engaged in additional language education. I also teach current and future language educators and mentor language education researchers.

Outside of FSU, I am co-editor of the Focus on Practice section of the journal Language Awareness, secretary of ACTFL's Research special interest group, and a member of the organizing team for the 2026 Virtual Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL).

Before joining FSU, I worked for several years as a language teacher in community-based adult ESL settings, a university instructor of linguistics, TESOL, Spanish, and English as additional languages, and a teacher mentor, supervising pre-service teachers through a TESOL practicum.

I earned my Ph.D. in Second Language Studies at Michigan State University, where I received the Susan M. Gass Award for Outstanding Service; my M.S.Ed. in TESOL at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, where I received the Teresa Pica Award for Excellence in TESOL; and my B.A. in Spanish with minors in Linguistics, TESOL, Sociology, Latin American Studies and Faith-Justice Studies at Saint Joseph's University.

I recently received the 2026 Penn GSE Recent Alumni/Early Career Award of Merit.

Please feel free to get in touch at ccinaglia@fsu.edu. 

You can also find me on ResearchGate, Google Scholar, and ORCID.