Professor Dr. Giuliana Salvato

Biography

Giuliana Salvato holds a Laurea cum Laude in Modern Languages from the University of Padova, Italy, and completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She is a Fulbright scholar with a degree from Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and has received TESOL Certification from Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Salvato has been a faculty member at the University of Windsor since 2006, where she currently serves as an Associate Professor in Language Education. Her teaching areas include Introduction to Linguistics, Theories of Language Acquisition, Methodologies in Language Education, Italian Language and Linguistics, and English Language. Her research focuses on language acquisition and multilingualism, specifically examining the role of gesture and multimodality in the development of a new language among adult learners, approached from cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives. She has authored significant publications on the topic, including studies on the salience of students' body language in lectures, pragmatics of L2 gestures, and multimodal practices in multilingual classes.

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