Swedish as a second language; interactional sociolinguistics; conversation, interaction och ethnomethodology; workplace communication in a multilingual society; language policy; assessing and testing language competence; language learner corpus; methodology.

Research projects

Participant perspectives on professional language competence – internationally educated teachers and pre-school teachers

The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system. A survey was sent to alumni from ULV, with questions  about the interaction between language practice's and their beliefs and values, what needs they see in their work and how they are received at Swedish schools. 

Transnational Professionals in Higher Education and in Research: sharing the Australian and Swedish experience of language assessment of an internationalized work force of regulated professions

The project aims to share knowledge, experience and research on transnational academics in higher education in Australia and Sweden. Focus is on knowledge about academics in regulated professions, such as teachers, lawyers or doctors, who participate in supplementary higher education in order to work in a new country. The questions concern how a professional and sustainable academic education can develop models to utilize, support and assess linguistic resources and skills in these professions and how workplaces can be prepared. The result will provide a better understanding of how education and workplaces with great diversity can work with language development.

The project is funded by  STINT, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education

Swedish Learner Language corpus, SweLL

I participated in the infrastructure project Swedish Learner Language (SweLL). The project has set up a portal and an infrastructure for text collection, pseudonymization, normalization, and correction annotation of written learner  production. A linguistically and correction annotated learner corpus of 500 adult learner texts are now available for Swedish as a second language at all learner levels. Another 200 are pseudonymized and searchable. The learner corpus can be found at Språkbanken at the University of Gothenburg. 
Språkbanken

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond financed the project (IN16-0464:1). It was led from Språkbanken at the University of Gothenburg. 
SweLL (RJ 2017–2019)

Recruitment, socialization and representation in public administration. The case of language and culture for diversity in public organizations

The project took as its first staring point the concept of representation in relation to public administration. Globalisation and multilingualism in Sweden of today makes administrative bodies face a new composition of the citizenry it is supposed to serve. The second starting point was the language policy adopted by Parliament in 2005 and the use of language as a resource for identity, socialization and recruitment in public administration. The cases studied came from a complementary course in Public Administration for academics with an international background. In the project we followed around 80 students doing their internship in different national agencies and ministries. 

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond financed the project (P2007-0857:1)

International network

NOS HS financed a Nordic network 2020-2023: Language at work: migrants and Nordic workplaces.

The Nordic network held three workshops: Stockholm University 13–14 June 2022, Jyväskylä University 13–14 September 2022, Copenhagen University 13–14 April 2023.