Luca Giupponi

giupponi@msu.edu
Wells B206

Curriculum Developer

Center for Language Teaching Advancement

Biography

Luca Giupponi (Ed.D, Indiana University) is the Head of Technology at the National LCTL Resource Center and an Educational Technology Specialist at the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University. His work focuses on faculty development, technology integration, and program evaluation. His recent publications include: a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Research on World Language Instruction on supporting LCTLs and indigenous languages through technology integration and online language learning; a chapter in a CALICO special volume investigating patterns of technology integration in language teachers’ classroom practices following the pandemic; and a chapter detailing Language Centers’ role in supporting online instruction in IALLT’s Language Center Handbook. He is the co-editor of a volume on sharing LCTLs across higher education institutions.

Works

Giupponi, L., Heidrich Uebel, E., Kronenberg, F., & Steider, D. (2025). Supporting Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages through Technology Integration and Online Language Learning. In Murphy-Judy, K. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Research on World Language Instruction. Routledge.

Heidrich Uebel, E., Giupponi, L., Van Gorp, K., & Garza, T.J. (2025). Technology-enabled Interinstitutional Professional Development for LCTLs. In Britton, E., Kraemer, A., Austin, T., Liu, H., & Zuo, X. (Eds.), Advancing Critical CALL Across Institutions and Borders. Equinox Publishing.

Heidrich Uebel, E., Van Gorp, K., & Giupponi, L. (2025). Collaboration and Curriculum Development: Modules in the Less Commonly Taught Languages Partnership. In A.Corin (Ed.), Open Architecture Curricular Design: Courses and Concepts. Georgetown University Press.

Giupponi, L., Zulick, B., & Heidrich Uebel, E. (2024). Post-Pandemic Language Teaching: Language Instructors’ Technology Integration Practices. In S. Goertler & J. Gleason (Eds.) Technology-mediated Crisis Response in Language Studies. Equinox Publishing.

Heidrich Uebel, E., Kraemer, A. & Giupponi, L. (Eds.). (2023). Sharing LCTLs in Higher Education: Collaboration and Innovation. Routledge.

Kaufmann, A., Gacs, A., Giupponi, L., and Van Gorp, K. (2023). A model for online task-based language teaching. In del Mar Suárez, M., & El-Henawy, W., (eds.), Optimizing Online English Language Learning and Teaching. Springer.

Giupponi, L., Heidrich Uebel, E., & Van Gorp, K. (2021). Language centers as hubs for online language instruction support. In E. Lavolette and A. Kraemer (Eds.), Language Center Handbook 2021. International Association of Language Learning Technology.

Van Gorp, K., Giupponi, L., Heidrich Uebel, E., Dursun, A. & Swinehart, N. (2019). Defining teachers’ readiness for online language teaching: toward a unified framework. EUROCALL Conference Proceedings.

Charitos, S., Heidrich, E., Van Gorp, K., & Giupponi, L. (2018). The Shared LCTL Symposium : A Call to Action. Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 25, 159–164.

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