Julia Backelin Forsberg
Contact
Name and title: Julia Backelin Forsberg
Workplace: The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room D668Universitetsvägen 10 D
Postal address Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet106 91 Stockholm
About me
I'm a senior lecturer in Swedish at the department. In 2018 I defended my thesis "Audience design in interaction: studies on urban adolescent spoken languages", where recordings of 111 Swedish urban adolescents, 80 teachers from Sweden and Germany and 160 respondants in a perception study enabled me to investigate some aspects of the speech of adolescents. The focus was partly on attitudes and perception, and partly on pronunciation in English and Swedish.
I come from a (socio-)phonetic background, with an MSc in Forensic Speech Science from the University of York, and have done some work in this area in a Swedish context.
I mainly teach in the areas of phonetics/pronunciation, sociolinguistics and grammar.
I also supervise bachelor theses in the department.
My research interests concern the school environment, the spoken language of adolescents (first and second language), and standard language ideologies (in particular adolescents' views on these and the effect on spoken language).
From 2022 I'm participating in the project Samsyn.
2021-2022 I'm working in the project Samsas.
2020 I received funding from the Erik Wellander foundation to work on a project on pronunciation, language ideology and language norms among pupils with Swedish as a first or second language.
During 2018-2020 I worked in the project Intensive education in Swedish for newly arrived pupils (Intensivsvenska), which aimed to promote integration of newly arrived pupils of secondary and upper secondary ages by developing and applying a model for education and teaching which increases the opportunities for these pupils to move forward in the educational system and/or their working life, within realistic and reasonable time frames.
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