Adrian RexgrenPhD student
About me
I am passionate about many questions that have to do with teaching and learning. My interests range from language to music, and include future schooling, historical views on education and applied technology.
Research Highlights
Language teaching is the main focus of many present-day relevant research endeavours. Translation pedagogy is one of the areas that has recently enjoyed international attention as it applies to linguistics, translatology, 21st Century education, cultural hybridity and global communication. Language, culture and translation have historically overlapped and shared mutual interests. This is why, classroom practices, especially in the midst of current circumstances, need further mapping; and accounting for them from a comparative approach may shed important light into the strategies applied by tutors in the benefit of students who want to develop high levels of translation competence. For the educational researcher, analysis of teachers’ actions and classroom dynamics may help update key assumptions of teaching procedures and results.
Adrian is part of the Sotckholm University ICER Research Group, which mainly discusses question within the domain of International and Comparative Education.
The study Multicultural Folk high school classrooms & adult migrant learners in the SFI lesson surveys the perceptions of students who learn Swedish as a second (non-native) language in the national language programme as administered by the popular education Study Associations. Given popular adult education's origins in the Scandinavian countries as a unique cultural and historical phenomenon, to account for how such school form features specific pedagogic elements and methods related to liberal, egalitarian and transformational tenets in favour of social justice is of great interest. These principles can have diverse interpretations in today's world against the background of increasingly multicultural classrooms. While the new notions of multiculturalism in education aim at establishing more equality in a globalised world, and thereby help provide better opportunities for students, exploring the perceptions students have about their own participation in such diverse educational environment are key for designing future directions and renewed foundations for L2 language education.
The study Crossroads between translation pedagogies, translanguaging & 21st-Century education aims at presenting insights about practices of translation teaching across nations in the Nordic and Baltic regions. Translanguaging and the value of translated texts in language teaching are issues that make part of the current debates that revolve around didactic effectiveness and information accessibility. In regard to this, by closely examining the repertoire of instructional strategies used by practitioners of language and translation pedagogies, the aim of this project is to contribute to the body of knowledge in the fields of descriptive pedagogy, teacher training and curriculum design as they apply to teaching in this field.
Teaching & Project Development
Education in Multicultural Society 7.5 ETC
Professional translation 7.5 ETC (co-teaching)
Academic writing. Digital teachers' room, Athena
Merits: Professional development - University Teaching and Learning I, II och III (22,5hp), Videoproduction as a pedagogic tool (1,5hp)
Work experience
Language teaching
- English for the promotion of academic research
- German and Italian phonetics and intonation for opera singers
- Spanish for academic purposes and international communication
- Swedish as a second language for international students
- Production of audiovisual didactic material for digital learning management systems
Translation teaching
- Curriculum evaluation and translation competence testing
- Translation of literary texts
- Multilingualism and the translator’s role
- Note-taking for conference interpretation
Media & Art
- Digital content and its copyright/related rights
- Classical and electric string instruments
- Production and curatorship of music events
- Voice acting and vocal fold anatomy
Participation in Academic Events
Rexgren, A. (2022). Reviewing Skill Indicators as a Two-way Assessment Mirror. CIVIS: a European Civic University, Developing Environmental, Economic, Social, Sustainable, Healthy and Intercultural Cities'. Autonomous University of Madrid, June 7th-9th.
Rexgren, A. (2022). Swedish classroom and Romance-Language L1 Student Groups. CIVIS: a European Civic University, ’Developing Environmental, Economic, Social, Sustainable, Healthy and Intercultural Cities: a Transversal and Integrative Social and Educational Approach for Citizens, Migrants and Refugees'. University of Bucharest, May 16th-18th.
Rexgren, A. (2021). Multicultural Second-language Classrooms in Sweden: Native Speakers of Spanish and their Learning Experience. 6th International Conference Sustainable Multilingualism 2021, 'Intercultural Communication in Language Teaching & Learning'. Vytautas Magnus University. Online, Jun 6th-7th.
Rexgren, A. (2020). Locating the 'C' on the ICER/CIE Research Agenda post-2020. Joint Webinar ICER, Stockholm University & CoInEd, University of Sydney. 'SU-USyd Collaboration - International and Comparative Education'. Online, Jun 10th.
Rexgren, A. (2019). Exploring Variability in Translation Pedagogies. NOCIES (Nordic Comparative and International Education Society) Biannual Conference & Global CIE Forum. 'Understanding the Global in Comparative and International Education'. Stockholm University, Oct 10th-11th.
Rexgren, A. (2019). Translanguaging in Translation Classrooms. Joint International Seminar Towards the Realization of Sustainable Future. University of Tokyo, Jyväskylä University, Stockholm University, Feb 20th-22nd.
Rexgren, A. (2018). Is the higher education classroom taking heed of its ever-growing translingual reality? – ICER (International Comparative Education Research) Half-Day Symposium. Stockholm University, Nov 5th.
Rexgren, A. (2018). Exploring the translanguaging scenario of contemporary HE language and translation pedagogies. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Contribution of Global Education Seminar. Jyväskylä University, Oct 23rd-24th.
Association & Memberships
Nordic Comparative and International Education Society (NOCIES).
Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES).
Publications
Rexgren, A (2022). Latin-American Migrants’ Transformative Learning and the Swedish Language Class as Catalysers of their Multicultural Vocational Education Experience. In L. Moreno, M. Teräs, P. Gougoulakis & J. Kontio (eds.). Migration and Inclusion in Work Life - The Role of VET. Emerging Issues in Research on Vocational Education & Training, Vol 7. Stockholm: Atlas Förlag. urn:nbn:se:su:diva-202415
Rexgren, A. (upcoming). Compared Cross-linguistic Footprints of Heritage Languages across Music Production Spheres.
Rexgren, A. (upcoming). Touring Musicians and their Perglossic Music: when monolingual repertoires are not enough.