Dr Frances Giampapa

Research summary

From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Designing Learning Environments for Knowledge Generation within the New Economy.

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Biography

Frances Giampapa received her B.A. (Hons) and M.A. in Sociolinguistics from the University of Western Australia.  Her research focused on cross-generational language contact and variation among Italo-Australians in Perth.

She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.  Her multi-site ethnography examined the politics of language, power and identities across the Italian Canadian community in Toronto.  The specific focus of the study was on the discursive negotiation of identities among Italian Canadian youth.

Her postdoctoral research focused on multiliteracies, identities and minority language students in Canadian schools.  This research ...

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Selected publications

• Giampapa, F. ‘Authenticity, legitimacy and power: Critical ethnography and identity politics’, in S.F. Gardner and M. Martin-Jones (Ed.), Multilingualism, discourse and ethnography, (pp. 95-110), 2012. ISBN: 9780415874946
• Giampapa, F. ‘The politics of 'being and becoming' a researcher: Identity, power and negotiating the field’, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, 10(3), (pp. 132-144), 2011

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Selected conference contributions

• Giampapa, F. ‘Empowering Pedagogies: Literacies and Identities within a Reggio-Emilia inspired Pre-School in Bristol’, The 47th UKLA International Conference, 2011
• Giampapa, F. ‘Voices of Identity, Language and Pedagogy: A Reggio Emilia Approach across a Mulitilingual Context in Bristol’, 20th annual Conference of the European Second Language Association, 2010

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