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Cristina Gadaleta

@cristinagadaleta

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Linguist-researcher specializing in plurilingualism and pragmatic competence.

Spain

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What I'm looking for

I seek interdisciplinary academic or applied research roles combining experimental linguistics, NLP/annotation work, and teaching in dynamic, collaborative environments that support publication and methodological innovation.

I am a linguist and researcher focusing on plurilingualism, pragmatic competence, and language acquisition, with a PhD candidature at the University of Huddersfield. I design and conduct experiments, analyse discourse coherence, and develop methodologies to support language learning in multilingual contexts.

I have over a decade of teaching experience delivering Italian courses to bilingual and multilingual learners across workplace, university and adult-learning settings, and I create engaging teaching materials and assessments to improve metalinguistic awareness. I collaborate internationally on annotation, NLP tasks, and linguistic tool development (PhLex, INCEpTION, Prodigy).

My research is published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences; current work examines pragmatic competence and disagreement strategies in trilingual speakers. I am committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and advancing research on prominence and reference management in bilingual narratives.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Linguistic Annotator

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Mango Languages

May 2021 - Present (4 years 8 months)

Performed linguistic annotation, phonetic transcription, and part-of-speech labelling for Italian language content, ensuring quality and consistency across datasets to support language learning products.

Linguistic Annotation POS Tagging & QA Data Labelling

Italian Teacher

Babbel GmbH

Mar 2014 - Jun 2025 (11 years 3 months)

Designed and delivered Italian courses for multilingual learners, created interactive materials and assessments, and promoted metalinguistic awareness to improve learner proficiency.

Curriculum Design Lesson planning Assessment Design Classroom Management Adult Education

Linguistic Consultant

Pole to Win International

Sep 2020 - Mar 2024 (3 years 6 months)

Provided Italian linguistic consultancy including phonetic transcription, syntactic parsing, and speech act recognition to improve NLP pipelines and annotation guidelines.

Speech Act Recognition Annotations NLP Quality Assurance

Linguistic Annotator

Yukka Lab AG

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

Annotated and analysed bilingual datasets (Italian/Spanish), contributed to software training and improvements for Prodigy and INCEpTION, and supported discourse-level research.

Discourse Analysis Inception Clause Splitting Data Analysis

Researcher

Università per Stranieri di Siena

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (11 months)

Participated in the European RiUscire project analysing language training in Portuguese penitentiary contexts and contributed to research on linguistic training and social reintegration.

Applied Research Data Analysis Report Writing

Italian Teacher

Ellci, Uet, Ad Global Solution

Jun 2009 - Feb 2014 (4 years 8 months)

Taught Italian language and culture to immigrants, workers and university students, prepared tailored materials and assessments to support integration and academic progress.

Assessment Design Multilevel Teaching Adult Education Lesson planning Multi Level Teaching

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of Huddersfield

PhD in Linguistics, Linguistics

2019 -

Activities and societies: Designed and executed experiments on disagreement strategies; published and presented research; teaching and supervision activities.

PhD candidate conducting research on pragmatic competence and awareness in multilingual contexts with a dissertation on pragmatic competence and metalinguistic awareness.