The CSLP congratulates Angelica Galante, director of the Plurilingual Lab at McGill University, on receiving a five-year SSHRC Insight Grant for a major new international research project: Voices from the Margins: Examining Linguistic Discrimination and Advancing Linguistic Justice in Higher Education.
Conducted in partnership with Ruth Fielding (Monash University) and Mi Yung Park (University of Auckland), the project aims to investigate the nature and impact of linguistic discrimination in English-speaking postsecondary institutions—specifically in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, countries where plurilingual student populations continue to face systemic challenges within predominantly monolingual frameworks.
Drawing from their own lived experiences as former international students, the research team will:
- Examine how linguistic discrimination manifests and is experienced in higher education,
- Empower plurilingual students from minoritized backgrounds, and
- Develop a new quantitative tool to support inclusive policy, research, and student well-being.
Through a transformative mixed methods approach, the project will offer practical strategies to inform institutional change and promote linguistic justice in universities globally.
Galante’s Plurilingual Lab specializes in research on critical sociolinguistics, language pedagogy, and social justice, with a strong emphasis on empowering multilingual learners and challenging linguistic marginalization.