Dr. Cinzia Forasiepi
Lecturer, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Dr. Forasiepi has more than twenty years of university teaching in Canada and in California. She has taught Italian as a foreign language at the University of Victoria, Canada. For sixteen years she has taught in the credential and graduate programs at Sonoma State University where she was also a university supervisor for teacher candidates. At the University of San Francisco, Dr. Forasiepi taught in the Online TESOL MA program. Since her retirement, she enjoys teaching for CSU EastBay in the online graduate and credential programs. When not teaching, she sings in an Early Music organization, and enjoys entertaining for friends.
Education
- Ed.D. International and Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco.
Minor: Second Language Acquisition. - MA, Reading and Language, Sonoma State University, CA.
- MA, Political Science, Universitá di Perugia, Italy.
- BA, English and French Translation, Scuola per Traduttori e Interpreti Perugia, Italy.
Course(s) Taught
- Structure of American English
Research and Interests
- First and Second Language Acquisition
- Second Language Pedagogy
- Literacy Pedagogy
- Teacher Education
- Multicultural Education/Social Justice in Education
- Human Rights Education
Professional Affliliations
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- TESOL International
Publications
Lee, T. & Forasiepi, C. (2016). Cubing the Curriculum for Critically Humanistic and
Technologically Sound Literacy Pedagogy. In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (pp. 2917-2922). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
Lee, T. & Forasiepi, C. (2016). Cubing the Curriculum for Critically Humanistic and Technologically Sound Literacy Pedagogy. Society for Instructional Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) Conference 2016.
Lee, T. & Forasiepi, C. (2016). Professional Literacy Circles: Transformative Conversations for 21st International Literacy Association (ILA) Conference 2016.
Lee, T. & Forasiepi, C. (2016). At the Crossroads: A Qualitative Meta-Analysis of Teacher Ideology-in- Practice. World Education Research Association (WERA) hosted by American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference 2016
Lee, T. & Forasiepi, C. (2015). Professional Literacy Circles for Teacher Self-Study and Renewal. National Network for Educational Renewal (NNER) conference 2015.
Lee, T., Forasiepi, C. & Graziano, K. (2015) Dialogic and Reflective Learning in Online Teacher Education Programs: Constructivist and Critical Approaches. Society for Instructional Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) Conference 2015.
Nickel, M. & Forasiepi, C. When Just Good Enough is Not Good Enough: Illuminating Best Practice Through Shared Performance Assessment. National Teacher Center (NTC) Symposium (2012)