Dr. Angelica Galante
William Dawson Scholar听|听Director, 海角社区 Plurilingual Lab
- Member of 海角社区鈥檚 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 海角社区, 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 鈥� TESL, Brock University B.A.
B. A. English Literature and Linguistics (honours), Universidade de S茫o Paulo
B.Ed. Second Language Education, Universidade de S茫o Paulo
Theatre Certificate (Acting), Senac S茫o Paulo
- 2024 海角社区 President鈥檚 Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher
- 2021听Heather Reisman and Gerald Schwartz Award听for Excellence in Teaching, 海角社区/Faculty of Education
- 2019听Pat Clifford Award听for Excellence in Early Career Research in Education, EdCan Network
- 2018听Leithwood Award听for Best Dissertation of the Year, OISE/University of Toronto
- 2018听Multilingual Matters Award听for Best Work in Multilingualism, American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL, USA)
- 2016听Doctoral Dissertation Award, The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF, USA)
- 2022-present.听Visible 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.听Linguistic Discrimination or Linguistic Liberation?听(Principal Investigator). Supported by 海角社区's internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant
- 2021-present.听PluriDigit: Supporting and Assessing Language Teaching and Learning through Plurilingual, Decolonial and Digital Pedagogy听(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.听Facilitating the Shift from Monolingual to Plurilingual Language Teaching听(Principal Investigator). Supported by: Fonds de Recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et Culture (FRQ鈥揝C)
- 2018-2020.听Examining Canadian Residents鈥� Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence and Identities听(Principal Investigator)
- M.A. Second Language Education
- M.A. Education & Society
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Not Accepting Master鈥檚 or Ph.D. students for 2025-26
