Maria Nilsson
Contact
Name and title: Maria Nilsson
Workplace: Department of Teaching and Learning Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room P334Svante Arrhenius väg 20 A
Postal address Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik106 91 Stockholm
About me
I hold a doctor's degree in Language Education from Stockholm University since 2020 when I defended my thesis Young learners' perspectives on English classroom interaction: Foreign language anxiety and sense of agency in Swedish primary school. I then had a post-doc position at Uppsala University where I worked on a project involving interactive read-alouds of authentic multimodal literature – picturebooks. I am currently lecturer in English Education at The Department of Teaching and Learning at Stockholm University.
I am a lecturer in English education focusing mostly on young learners, aged 6-13. I am also involved in teaching practicum and student thesis supervision.
My research interests involve ways of promoting oral classroom interaction, teaching in mixed-ability classrooms, using literature in language teaching, and teacher education.
Presentationer
- Child Foreign Language Learning, Krakow, Polen, apr 2016: Learner beliefs and foreign language anxiety - a study in two Swedish primary classrooms.
- Young Language Learner Symposium, Oxford, Great Britain, jul 2016: Investigating learner beliefs and foreign language anxiety in primary classroom.
- AAAL, Portland, Oregon, USA, mar 2017: Foreign language anxiety and target language use in early language education.
- AILA world congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien, jul 2017: Learner beliefs in the primary foreign language classroom.
- Early Language Learning: Multiple Perspectives – Diverse Voices, AILA ELL ReN, Rykjavik, Island, jun 2018: Attitude, effort and other resources – agency in the primary foreign language classroom.
- Shanghai Centre for Research in Early Language Education (SCRELE) Conference, Shanghai, sep 2019: Target language use in primary language classrooms: The perspectives of anxious young learners in Sweden.
- AILA world congress, Groeningen, Nederländerna, aug 2021: Foreign language anxiety among future language teachers – dilemmas and possibilities.
- TAL – Teaching for Active Learning, Köpenhamn, Danmark, nov 2021: Daring to speak! Boosting confidence and engagement in the language classroom.
- Second Language Teacher Education, Wien, sep 2022: Acknowledging foreign language anxiety among student teachers: preparing them for their classrooms.
- Multilingualism in Language Teaching and Learning, Kristiansand, Norge, sep 2023: Evidence-based support for effective classroom interaction and language use in foreign language teaching.
- LDN, Litteraturdidaktiskt nätverk, Växjö, okt 2023: Högläsning av bilderböcker i engelska: Lärares stöttningspraktiker.
- SMS, One school – many languages, Bolzano, Italien, dec 2023: I think I believe it's a problem, that English takes over.
- ELE, Exploring Language Education, Vasa, Finland, maj 2024: It's a teacher's dream to have something this engaging: English picturebook read-alouds in upper primary school.
- ELE, Exploring Language Education, Vasa, Finland, maj 2024. Together with Sara Snoder: I think that I believe it's a problem, that English takes over – teachers' concerns about learners' language choices in a multilingual primary school context.