Julio Rolando Garcia Disini (he/él/ele/il/siya)
Degree: M.A.
Year of Entry: 2024
Program: Languages and Literacies Education
Department of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
Contact info
Email: julio.disini@utoronto.ca
Biography
Julio is a second-year MA candidate exploring university students' investments in learning Spanish as a foreign language in Canada.
Degrees
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Honours Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, Major in Linguistics (theoretical) and minors in Spanish and FrenchUniversity of Toronto, St. George
Research Interests
- applied linguistics
- L2 education & development
- motivation & investment in L2 learning
- variationist sociolinguistics
- L2 speech development
- Spanish as a foreign language in Canada
- critical language ideology
