Camilla Bardel Professor
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Name and title: Camilla BardelProfessor
Workplace: Department of Teaching and Learning Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room P349Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A
Postal address Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik106 91 Stockholm
Research groups
About me
I am a full professor of modern languages and language education at the Department of teaching and learning and my academic background is within Romance languages. I hold a PhD in Italian from Lund University (2000). In 2010 I was appointed full professor at the department of language education at Stockholm university. Between 2013 and 2014 I served as professor of Italian at the Department of French, Italian and Classics at the same University. I am active in various collaborations, at both national and international level, concerning research and doctoral education.
I have a long experience from teaching and supervision at BA, MA and PhD levels, mainly at Stockholm University, but also at other universities, in Sweden and abroad.
In the autumn semester 2025 (September - November), Ylva Falk and I teach the course Third language research and language education, at postgraduate and advanced level. The course is in English and deals with influential and current research on third language learning and teaching. We have a long history of doing research in the field and publishing on both third language learning and teaching, see for example:
Bardel, C., & Falk, Y. (2007). The role of the second language in third language acquisition: The case of Germanic syntax. Second language research, 23(4), 459-484.
Falk, Y., & Bardel, C. (2010). The study of the role of the background languages in third language acquisition. The state of the art, IRAL, 48(2-3), 185-219.
Falk, Y., Lindqvist, C., & Bardel, C. (2015). The role of L1 explicit metalinguistic knowledge in L3 oral production at the initial state. Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 18(2), 227-235. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728913000552
Bardel, C., & Falk, Y. (2021). L1, L2 and L3: Same or different? Second Language Research, 37(3), 459-464. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320941033
Falk, Y., & Bardel, C. (2024). The L2/L3 initial state, initial stages and judgement tasks: The role of intercomprehension when judging unknown languages. Second Language Research, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231220785
My research interests lie within the broad field of language education. More specifically, my previous research projects concerned cross-linguistic influence in third language learning and multilingualism, advanced levels of foreign/second language learning, corpus linguistics and lexicography. I am or have been responsible for the following funded research projects: The role of the background languages in third language acquisition. Vocabulary and syntax (The Swedish research council, 2012-2016), Aspects of the advanced French and Italian L2 learner’s lexicon (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2006-2012), The role of the background languages in second language development. Target language Italian (The Swedish research council, 2001-2006). From 2016 I collaborate in the project Learning, teaching and assessment of second foreign languages - an alignment study on oral language proficiencyin the Swedish school context (the TAL project) funded by The Swedish research council, 2016-2018, and directed by prof. Jonas Granfeldt at Lund University.