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faculty
Nicholas Santavicca, PhD
Associate Professor / Director, Language Resource Center
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-9271
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Claire T. Carney Library 135
Education
| 2014 | Texas Tech University | PhD |
| 2007 | University of Cincinnati | MEd |
| 2001 | University of Kentucky | BA |
Teaching
- ESL/Multilingual Education
- Bilingual/Dual Education
- International Student Education
- Queer/Diversity Studies
Teaching
Courses
Integration of language-instructive meetings, cooperative and engaging fieldwork and a blended-learning approach to language acquisition specific to university life. Students are exposed to extended-learning opportunities beyond the classroom, with chances to observe academic credit classes, explore innovative digital-learning environments and attend lectures or exhibitions. Individual tutoring, based on instructor feedback and test scores, focuses on speaking, reading, writing and listening skills. Consent of Director or Program Designee required. Repeatable course for Levels 2-4.
Provides provide international students with major specific language support using embedded tutoring. Students are exposed to extended-learning opportunities beyond the classroom, with chances to observe academic credit classes, explore innovative digital-learning environments and attend lectures or exhibitions. Class themes focus on specific vocabulary utilized by various disciplines/fields of study offered at UMassD.
Introduction to writing, analysis, and survey of academic subject areas with attention to academic discourse styles and vocabulary. The course cultivates skills to support the academic experience of international students enrolled in American university classes. Special attention is gives to cross-disciplinary research, collaboration, the writing process, content organization and presentation development, editing and proofreading, listening and speaking. The course is designed to enhance students' lingusistic repertoires, valuing communicative competencies that enable full participation with peers
Integrated approaches to classroom curriculum and pedagogy taking into account human development theories. Particular attention is paid to learning plans that respond to diversity, learning needs, and learning preferences of all students. The course provides an opportunity for students to develop lesson plans and curriculum units that reflect learning strategies aligned with cultural responsive pedagogy.
Integrated approaches to classroom curriculum and pedagogy taking into account human development theories. Particular attention is paid to learning plans that respond to diversity, learning needs, and learning preferences of all students. The course provides an opportunity for students to develop lesson plans and curriculum units that reflect learning strategies aligned with cultural responsive pedagogy.
An introduction to issues of language development, the role of culture, and linguistic repertoires pertinent to teaching and learning. Includes theories of second language development and culturally relevant pedagogy and their role in the development of various literacies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
An introduction to issues of language development, the role of culture, and linguistic repertoires pertinent to teaching and learning. Includes theories of second language development and culturally relevant pedagogy and their role in the development of various literacies.
Register for this course.
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.
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.
Register for this course.
Integrated approaches to classroom curriculum and pedagogy taking into account human development theories. Particular attention is paid to learning plans that respond to diversity, learning needs, and learning preferences of all students. The course provides an opportunity for students to develop lesson plans and curriculum units that reflect learning strategies aligned with cultural responsive pedagogy.
Register for this course.
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.