Internal FULK Meeting – Doing language portraying longitudinally

Seminar

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025

Time: 11.00 – 12.00

Location: P402 Svend Pedersen, Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A and Zoom (contact Christina Hedman to get Zoom-link)

In this seminar, we are joined by Eirini Akavalou, who will talk about different aspects of language portraying.

Eirini Akavalou. Photo: Private.

In this seminar, Eirini Akavalou shows and discusses aspects of language portraying based on her linguistic ethnographic fieldwork among recently arrived children of Greek-Albanian background in the Swedish middle school, grades 4–6. A focus will be on doing language portraying longitudinally.

Briefly about Eirini Akavalou

Eirini Akavalou is a PhD student in Language Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning, SU.

Contact Christina Hedman to participate

If you are interested in participating, please contact Christina Hedman by email: christina.hedman@su.se

Research subjects

Language Education Swedish as a second language

Research group

Multilingualism Teaching and Learning in a Critical Perspective

The group´s focus centers around research on minoritized multilingualism in a majority language context, and in what ways children, young people and adults are given the opportunity to use and develop both minoritized languages and the majority language.

Last updated: September 23, 2025

Source: Department of Teaching and Learning

Research subjects

Language Education Swedish as a second language

Research group

Multilingualism Teaching and Learning in a Critical Perspective

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