Simone Casini
Biography
Dr. Simone Casini is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Language Studies at the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ Mississauga with graduate appointments at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) and ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½.
Research interests
His research interests include Semiotics, Second-Language Teaching and Learning, Languages in Contact, Educational Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Italian Linguistics, Language Creativity, Language Science, Plurilingualism / Multilingualism. Dr. Casini has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in foreign language teaching in learning as well as the role of Italian in Canada. Most recently, he has collaborated on a research project entitled The Spread of Italian Language in Canada: From Nostos to the Market Job. He is co-investigator of the SSHRC project Italiese and its new developments: from endangered to a global language (2022-2025).