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 have now finished collecting data for my dissertation research!

Argentine English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teachers currently working at the (public or private) secondary level within the education system in Argentina were invited to take an online survey. Through the survey, they shared their insights about their socio-emotional experiences as Argentine EFL teachers and how those may affect their professional well-being as well as their teaching practices. My hope is to use this data to better develop and establish programming to support teachers socio-emotionally. You can find a sample of the flyer I created for the call of participants below.

Recent work

Etchart, M. (Forthcoming). Exploring foreign language anxiety in international teaching assistants’ twofold

academic roles: An appraisal theory study.

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)