Stockholm university

Swedish as a second language is a multifaceted research area with high social relevance. Within this area, we conduct research on the multilingualism of children, young people and adults, language development and language use in school and other formal and informal educational contexts, in workplaces and in society.

A focus is, among other things, on various types of multilingual literacies, the teaching of language and literature, interactional and multimodal aspects of language and learning, grammar and phonology in a second language perspective as well as assessment of linguistic competence. A focus is also on communication in multilingual workplaces, and the policies, ideologies and attitudes of the multilingual society. The research covers sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, cognitive and educational aspects of multilingualism and learning. These aspects include several methodological approaches, e.g. ethnographic, text-, interaction- and corpus-based as well as experimental EEG/ERP, Eye Tracking and behavioral experiments, see the Multilingualism Laboratory.

The Multilingualism Laboratory

The researchers come from the research subjects of Swedish and Scandinavian languages and Bilingualism at the Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, and from Swedish as a second language from an educational perspective at the Department of Teaching and Learning.

Department of Swedish Lanugage and Multilingualism (su.se/svefler/english)

Department of Teaching and Learning (su.se/did/english)

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Researchers

Niclas Abrahamsson

Professor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Katrin Ahlgren

Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Department of Teaching and Learning
Katrin Ahlgren

José Alemán Bañón

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Tatiana Antontchik

Administrativ studierektor, Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Tatiana Antontchik

Julia Backelin Forsberg

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Rebecca Borg

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Emanuel Bylund Spångberg

Professor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Johanna Einarsson

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Ylva Falk

Senior lecturer

Department of Teaching and Learning
Ylva Falk

Kamilla György Ullholm

Senior lecturer

Department of Teaching and Learning
Kamilla György Ullholm

Christina Hedman

Professor

Department of Teaching and Learning
Christina Hedman

Gunilla Jansson

Professor emerita

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Gunilla Jansson. Foto: Johan Asplund

Maria Lim Falk

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Dorota Lubinska

Senior lecturer

Department of Teaching and Learning
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Ulrika Magnusson

Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Department of Teaching and Learning

Goran Maljan

Adjunkt

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Marie Nelson

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Marie Nelson

Catrin Norrby

Prodekanus, Professor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Catrin Norrby

Gunnar Norrman

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Enni Paul

Senior lecturer

Department of Education
Enni Paul

Anna Persson

Adjunkt

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Anna Persson. Foto: Pia Nordin

Anders Philipsson

Senior lecturer, Assistant Head of Department

Department of Teaching and Learning
Anders Philipsson

Olof Poignant

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Marta Quevedo Rodriguez

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Marta Quevedo

Azar Raoufi Masouleh

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Azar Raoufi Masouleh

Jenny Rosén

Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Department of Teaching and Learning
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Maria Rydell

Docent, Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Maria Rydell

Karin Sandwall

Project manager

Department of Teaching and Learning
Karin Sandwall

Susan Sayehli

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Susan Sayehli

Karin Sheikhi

Senior lecturer, Director of studies

Department of Teaching and Learning

Klara Skogmyr Marian

Docent, Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Gunlög Sundberg

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Gunlög Sundberg

Maryann Su Lin Tan

Doktorand

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
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Jeanna Wennerberg

Universitetslektor

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Jeanna Wennerberg

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Departments and centres

Research on the subject is conducted at the three units that are jointly involved in the education at first and second level: Swedish and Scandinavian Languages ​​and the Centre for Research on Bilingualism (units at the Department of Swedish Language an Multilingualism (Svefler)) and the Department of Teaching and Learning.

The Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism Department of Teaching and Learning