Abigail Massaro

Abby Massaro is a doctoral student in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition. She holds an EdM from the University of Massachusetts and BAs in German and Communications from Penn State. Before moving to New York City, she taught English abroad through Fulbright Austria, and more recently worked as an English language program administrator at a community college in Boston, where she headed the accreditation process for their Intensive English program. In this role she oversaw three English language programs, all housed within the college's Workforce Development Division. At Teachers College, she is an instructor in the Community Language Program. She teaches and has developed the curriculum for the CLP's Advanced Studies course. Her research interests include heritage language acquisition, instructed second language and heritage language acquisition, and language loss.