Dr. Angelica Galante
William Dawson ScholarÌý|ÌýDirector, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Plurilingual Lab
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- Member of Æ»¹ûÒùԺ’s Interdisciplinary Language Acquisition Program (LAP)
- Co-editor of
- Co-chair of
- Past President of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics ()
- Plurilingual and multilingual education
- Translanguaging
- Language pedagogy
- Linguistic discrimination
- Plurilingual and pluricultural competence (PPC)
- Classroom-based research
- Identity and language learning
- Drama/theatre in language learning
- Teacher education
- Critical sociolinguistics
- Mixed methods research (qualitative and quantitative)
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Dr. Galante is originally from Brazil and has been in Canada for about 15 years. Growing up in an officially Portuguese-speaking country and in a family with Italian and Spanish heritage, mixing languages has always been the norm for her.
At school, she learned English, Esperanto, Tupi, Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Dr. Galante has developed an extensive career as an English language teacher, coordinator, theatre director, and teacher educator. She moved to Canada to pursue her graduate studies in Applied Linguistics (MA, Brock University) and Language Education (OISE/University of Toronto). With these experiences, Dr. Galante has been navigating through her multiple identities: language learner/teacher, international student, immigrant, and plurilingual speaker.
Before joining Æ»¹ûÒùÔº, she held faculty positions at Concordia University, Brock University, York University and University of Toronto.
Ph.D. Language Literacies and Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)/University of Toronto
M.A. in Applied Linguistics – TESL, Brock University B.A.
B. A. English Literature and Linguistics (honours), Universidade de São Paulo
B.Ed. Second Language Education, Universidade de São Paulo
Theatre Certificate (Acting), Senac São Paulo
- 2024 Æ»¹ûÒùÔº President’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher
- 2021ÌýHeather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz AwardÌýfor Excellence in Teaching, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº/Faculty of Education
- 2019ÌýPat Clifford AwardÌýfor Excellence in Early Career Research in Education, EdCan Network
- 2018ÌýLeithwood AwardÌýfor Best Dissertation of the Year, OISE/University of Toronto
- 2018ÌýMultilingual Matters AwardÌýfor Best Work in Multilingualism, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL, USA)
- 2016ÌýDoctoral Dissertation Award, The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF, USA)
- 2022-present.ÌýVisible Voices: Empowering undocumented immigrants in Canada with socially relevant digital English language education (Principal Investigator). Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2022-present.ÌýLinguistic Discrimination or Linguistic Liberation?Ìý(Principal Investigator). Supported by Æ»¹ûÒùÔº's internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant
- 2021-present.ÌýPluriDigit: Supporting and Assessing Language Teaching and Learning through Plurilingual, Decolonial and Digital PedagogyÌý(Principal Investigator). Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2021-present. (Role: Co-Principal Investigator w/ Enrica Piccardo as Principal Investigator). Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 2019-2022.ÌýFacilitating the Shift from Monolingual to Plurilingual Language TeachingÌý(Principal Investigator). Supported by: Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQ–SC)
- 2018-2020.ÌýExamining Canadian Residents’ Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence and IdentitiesÌý(Principal Investigator)
- M.A. Second Language Education
- M.A. Education & Society
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Accepting Master’s and Ph.D. students for 2024-25