Research subject Swedish as a second language
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)

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Researchers
Niclas Abrahamsson
Professor

Katrin Ahlgren
Senior lecturer, Associate professor

José Alemán Bañón
Universitetslektor

Tatiana Antontchik
Administrativ studierektor, Doktorand

Julia Backelin Forsberg
Universitetslektor

Rebecca Borg
Doktorand

Emanuel Bylund Spångberg
Professor

Johanna Einarsson
Doktorand
Ylva Falk
Senior lecturer

Kamilla György Ullholm
Senior lecturer

Christina Hedman
Professor

Gunilla Jansson
Professor emerita

Maria Lim Falk
Universitetslektor

Dorota Lubinska
Senior lecturer

Ulrika Magnusson
Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Goran Maljan
Adjunkt

Marie Nelson
Universitetslektor

Catrin Norrby
Prodekanus, Professor

Gunnar Norrman
Universitetslektor

Enni Paul
Senior lecturer

Anna Persson
Adjunkt

Anders Philipsson
Senior lecturer, Assistant Head of Department

Olof Poignant
Doktorand

Marta Quevedo Rodriguez
Doktorand
Azar Raoufi Masouleh
Doktorand

Jenny Rosén
Senior lecturer, Associate professor

Maria Rydell
Docent, Universitetslektor

Karin Sandwall
Project manager

Susan Sayehli
Universitetslektor

Karin Sheikhi
Senior lecturer, Director of studies

Klara Skogmyr Marian
Docent, Universitetslektor

Gunlög Sundberg
Universitetslektor

Maryann Su Lin Tan
Doktorand

Jeanna Wennerberg
Universitetslektor

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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