Margaret Weston Piccoli

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice / World Language and English to Speakers of Other Languages
MAT-S Coordinator

Contact
mwesto4@lsu.edu
221L Peabody Hall
225-578-8833

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Secondary Education, Spanish Language, LSU 1994
Master's Degree: Curriculum & Instruction, Foreign Language Education, LSU 1998
PhD: Curriculum & Instruction, LSU 2018

 

Margaret W. Piccoli is a lifelong educator, an author, and an improv enthusiast. Over the last 25 years, Margaret has taught high school Spanish in the United States, English as a World Language at Università Cattolica in Italy, and Italian at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. She is currently a professor of practice at the School of Education at Louisiana State University, where she teaches courses in World Language Education and English as a Second Language. Her academic and teaching interests lie in second language teaching methods, improvisation, and language acquisition through the theatre-arts.

Piccoli, M. (2018). Improvisation: A creative theatrical technique to engage English language learners. TESOL Journal (9(4), 1-9.

Piccoli, M. (2016). Words Matter: Creating academic language in the classroom through improvisation. Ubiquity: The journal of learning, literacy, and the arts, 3(2), 70-86.

Piccoli, M. & Hernendez, L. (2023). Purpose, Adaptability, Creativity, and Enjoyment (PACE): four Lessons Learned Using Task-Based Language Teaching. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. Oxford, MS.

Piccoli, M. & Dubroc, A. (2022). Graphic Novels: A Promising Light to Support English Learner to Build Literacy and Language Acquisition. National Council of Teachers of English. Anaheim, CA.

Piccoli, M. (2022) LATESOL. The Louisiana Glossary of Best Practices and Strategies for Language Acquisition for EL and WL Classroom Instruction. Baton Rouge, LA

Piccoli, M. (2022). Additive or Subtractive: A Crosswalk of Current English Language Program and Instruction in K-12 Schools. Panel presented at The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Baton Rouge, LA.

Piccoli, M. (2022). Scaffolding Strategies to Maintain the Integrity of Authentic Texts. Roundtable presented at The Louisiana Foreign Language Teaching Association (LFLTA). Baton Rouge, LA.

Piccoli, M. (2019). Assessing English Language Learners’ Comprehension of Content through the Theatrical Technique of Improvisation. National Council of Teachers of English. Baltimore, MD.