Research group Language and societal challenges

Leading interpreter-mediated professional encounters is a highly specialized skill. However, training in tis skill is almost nonexistent in professional education. This project explores how students develop this skill through interprofessional role-plays. The theoretical and methodological framework is based on mediated discourse analysis.

The project aims to deepen our understanding of the complex tasks that civic communication has in the transformation to a more sustainable society. The studies included utilize tools from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis to explore the role of language in societal change, and, more specifically, the role of linguistic messages in human action.

This project investigates drama-based language teaching in Swedish as a Second Language from a multimodal and interactional perspective.

This project investigates migrants’ experiences of language education and language learning from a longitudinal perspective.

This project concerns discourses on Swedish national identity in contemporary Sweden.

This project investigates minority language education in two parallel educational settings in Sweden: mother tongue tuition (MTT), which forms part of the national curriculum, and the teaching of language and culture in complementary schools, organized by local communities.

The Samsyn project is based on close cooperation between the research group Intensivsvenska and the Swedish National Agency for Education (Developing the introductory programs at upper secondary school).

In the process of expanding its activities in Sweden, from having worked primarily with influence and impact, to offering wealth fare services of education, employment and healthcare, the organisation Save the Children Sweden will need an increased awareness of how it frames its undertakings as well as of what stories it tells.