Bio:

Margaret W. Piccoli, Ph.D. is a lifelong educator, an author, and an improv enthusiast. As a second language teacher, she has personally experienced the challenges to use comprehensible language while incorporating it in content-based, meaningful, and engaging activities for all proficiency levels. Over the last 25 years, Margaret has taught high school Spanish in Louisiana, English as a Second language at the Università Cattolica in Italy, Italian at Ithaca College, and World Language Education and English as a Second Language at the School of Education at Louisiana State University. She believes that activities that integrate the arts, specifically improvisation, consider the whole child and offer multiple outlets of expression. Her academic and research interests lie in second language acquisition, improvisation, and language learning through the theatre-arts, but her passion is the teaching and advancement of a multilingual society.