Simone Casini
Biography
Dr. Simone Casini is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga with graduate appointments at the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP) and 91±¬ÁÏ.
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).