The present study investigates how the teacher in a show dance class demonstrates choreography to a group of learners (dancers) using imagery as a teaching strategy. The overall aim is to explore the pedagogical task of demonstrating with the help of imagery and to understand how different multimodal resources create prerequi...

This thesis comprises three separate studies that together explore how Swedish student teachers construct or produce professional identity in interaction while navigating different institutional and professional instances of teacher education. As a discourse analytical contribution to research on teacher identity, the main th...

It has recently been suggested that bilingualism, rather than age of acquisition, is what underlies less than nativelike attainment in childhood L2 acquisition. Currently, however, the empirical evidence in favor of or against this interpretation remains scarce. The present study sets out to fill this gap, implementing a nove...

This article reports on a longitudinal focus group study of two groups of translation students aimed at investigating their socialisation into the translation profession. The students followed the same MA programme in Translation Studies at a Swedish university but worked with different source languages (SL): Japanese and Eng...

This ethnomethodological (EM) and conversation analytic (CA) study explores the responsive behaviors of two Swedish volunteers during storytelling by two migrants in alanguage cafe in Sweden. The two stories revolve around employment and language proficiency, two topics that are often raised in the cafe as they invoke issues ...