My research lies at the intersection of education, applied linguistics, and psychology. I am particularly interested in the role that affect (e.g., grit, anxiety, enjoyment) and socio-institutional contexts can have on language educators’ professional experiences and language students’ learning trajectories as well as how those socio-emotional components may impact individuals' cognition (e.g., perceptions, beliefs), behaviors, and well-being within instructed settings. In my dissertation (ongoing), through a mixed-methods approach, I explore the socio-emotional professional experiences (of well-being) of an often overlooked population: Language teachers in the Global South. Most specifically, in the secondary education context in Argentina.

I am currently collecting data for my dissertation research, would you like to help me?

If you are an Argentine English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teacher who is currently working at the (public or private) secondary level within the education system in Argentina, please take my online survey here: https://go.wisc.edu/680013. Through the survey, I am interested in finding out more about the socio-emotional experiences of Argentine EFL teachers at the federal level, and to investigate how those may affect their professional well-being as well as their teaching practices with the aim of helping to better develop and establish programming to support teachers socio-emotionally.

If you do not qualify for the study, but you know someone who may qualify (or knows anyone else who may qualify), please share the information! The more Argentine EFL teachers I can reach, the more significant and valuable the results of my study will be!

Recent work

Etchart, M., & Hernando, A. (In press). Going beyond the course paper: Sharing experiences and providing suggestions to maximize graduate students’ research visibility. In C. Cinaglia & M. D. Coss (Eds.), The Story Behind the Study: Realities and Dilemmas of Conducting Research as Applied Linguistics Doctoral Students. Applied Linguistics Press.

Etchart, M., & Winke, P. (2024). Reexamining the “L2 Grit Scale” Construction Process: A Conceptual Replication of Teimouri et al. (2022). The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 6(2), 1-20. https://www.jpll.org/index.php/journal/article/view/163 

Etchart, M., & Winke, P. (2023, August 11). Reexamining the Construct Validity of the First L2 Grit Test: A Conceptual Replication of the Scale-Construction Processes within Teimouri, Plonsky, and Tabandeh (2022). http://psyarxiv.com/yfscw 

Etchart, M., & Siddiqui, T. (2021). The positive effects of building grit in the foreign language classroom. AL Forum: The Newsletter of the Applied Linguists Interest Section. TESOL International Association. http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolalis/issues/2021-02-09/5.html 

Etchart, M., Winke, P., & Driver, M. (2020). Measuring grit in learning Spanish. Open Science Framework (OSF) Preregistration. https://osf.io/u8h3e 

Conference Presentations

2025  |  Murphy, Dianna, Driver, Meagan, Etchart, Martiniano, Goetze, Julia “Campus-Based Initiatives to Challenge Monolingual and Monodialectal Ideologies in U.S. Higher Education”. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2025, AAAL (Denver, CO, USA)

2025  |  Etchart, Martiniano  “Do institutional roles shape emotional experiences? Exploring student and instructor appraisals of foreign language anxiety”. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2025, AAAL (Denver, CO, USA) — Winner of the AAAL 2025 Graduate Student Award Wilga Rivers

2025  |  Etchart, Martiniano “Social positioning as a source of foreign language anxiety: The case of international teaching assistants”. 17th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPSHY), Georgetown University (Washington D.C., United States)

2024  |  Etchart, Martiniano “Exploring foreign language anxiety in international teaching assistants’ twofold academic roles: An appraisal theory study”. 5th International Conference for the Psychology of Language Learning, National Distance Education University (Madrid, Spain) 

2023  |  Etchart, Martiniano, Mikulin, Dragan, Murphy, Dianna, Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando, Salmons, Joseph, and Wright, Kelly “Understanding and Addressing Linguistic Bias and Discrimination”. 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Forum, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, United States) 

2023  |  Stafford, Catherine and Etchart, Martiniano. “Latinx bilinguals accomplishing identity and emotional work in and through narrative”. 10th National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, Harvard University (Boston, MA, United States)

2023  |  Etchart, Martiniano “Foreign Language Perception of Emotional Prosody: A Close Look at the Effects of a (Quasi-)Immersion Experience in Spanish”. 2023 Second Language Acquisition Graduate Student Symposium, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN, United States) [virtual]

2023  |  Stafford, Catherine and Etchart, Martiniano “Latinx bilinguals making sense of ambivalent emotions in identity work: A second-wave positive psychology approach”. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2023, AAAL (Portland, OR, United States)

2022  |  Etchart, Martiniano and Winke, Paula “Should teachers be gritty about getting their students to have L2-Grit? Replicating Teimouri et al. (2020)”. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference 2022, AAAL (Pittsburgh, PA, United States)

2021  |  Etchart, Martiniano “Spanish L2 grit for foreign and heritage language learners before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A partial replication of Teimouri et al. (2020)”. 13th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium (GRAPSHY), Georgetown University (Washington D.C., United States) [virtual] — Winner of the Best Abstract in Linguistics Award

2020  |  Etchart, Martiniano, Stahl, Lauren, and Zalazar, Laura “¡Visitando a los hispanohablantes! La inclusión de nativos en la clase de español”. Michigan World Language Association Virtual Conference (Michigan, United States) [virtual]

2018  |  Etchart, Martiniano “Including Interculturality in the Foreign Language Classroom”. 2018 Arkansas Foreign Language Teachers District V Fall Conference (Arkansas, United States)