Biography
An Argentina native, Martiniano joined the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Doctoral Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2021, and later became a joint-degree graduate student in SLA and Spanish Linguistics. Prior to coming to UW-Madison, he completed his undergraduate degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in his home country, where he graduated with honors, and he earned an MA in Spanish as a Second or Bilingual Language from Michigan State University. He is an English and Spanish language educator as well as a former Fulbright scholar (Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program 2018-2019).
Martiniano’s research lies at the intersection of education, applied linguistics, and psychology. He is 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 elements may impact individuals’ cognition (e.g., perceptions, beliefs), behaviors, and well-being within instructed settings. In his dissertation, through a mixed-methods approach, Martiniano explores the socio-emotional professional experiences (of well-being) of an often overlooked population: language teachers in the Global South.