Giuliana Salvato earned her Laurea cum Laude in Modern Languages from the University of Padova, Italy, and she completed her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Toronto. She was a Fullbright scholar at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, and she received TESOL Certification from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has been teaching at the University of Windsor since 2006, where she is currently Associate Professor in Second Language Education.
Teaching areas:
· Introduction to Linguistics
· Theories of Second Language Acquisition
· Methodologies of Second Language Education
· Italian language and Italian linguistics
· English as a second language
Giuliana Salvato does research in second language acquisition and multilingualism, by investigating the contribution of gesture and multimodality to the development of a new language in adult learners. She studies this area from a cognitive as well as socio-cultural perspective.
Significant publications:
Salvato, G. (2024). The salience of students’ body language during in-person and online lectures at a Canadian university. Multimodal Communication, https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2023-0062
Salvato, G. (2022). The pragmatics of L2 gestures in beginners’ classes of Italian. Instructed Second Language Acquisition, 6(1), 81-108.
Gesuato, S., Salvato, G., and Castello, E. (Eds.) (2022). Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication. From Awareness through Description to Assessment. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Salvato, G. (2022). Assessing verbal and nonverbal immediacy in university classes in Canada and in Italy. In Gesuato, Sara, Salvato, Giuliana, and Castello, Erik (eds.), Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication. From Awareness through Description to Assessment (pp.79-107). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Salvato, G. (2020). Promoting multimodal practices in multilingual classes of Italian in Canada and in Italy. Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts, 6(3), 282-311.
Salvato, G. (2020). Awareness of the role of the body in the pedagogy of Italian in Canada and in Italy. Language Awareness, 29(1), 78-95.
Salvato, G. (2015). Looking Beyond Words: Gestures in the Pedagogy of Second Languages in Multilingual Canada. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Salvato, G. (2015). Cross-linguistic influences in Canadian learners’ interpretations of Italian emblematic gestures. In Safont Jordà, M. P. and Portolés Falomir, L. (Eds.), Learning and Using Multiple Languages: Current Findings from Research on Multilingualism (pp. 58-81). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Salvato, G. (2011), The interpretation of emblematic gestures in L2 users of Italian. In Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (Eds.), Language and Bilingual Cognition (pp. 385-405). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.