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
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Katrin Ahlgren
Senior lecturer, Associate professor
![Katrin Ahlgren](/polopoly_fs/1.620392.1657118674!/image/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpeg)
José Alemán Bañón
Universitetslektor
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Tatiana Antontchik
Administrativ studierektor, Doktorand
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Julia Backelin Forsberg
Universitetslektor
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Emanuel Bylund Spångberg
Professor
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Johanna Einarsson
Doktorand
Ylva Falk
Senior lecturer
![Ylva Falk](/polopoly_fs/1.251216.1444300458!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Kamilla György Ullholm
Senior lecturer
![Kamilla György Ullholm](/polopoly_fs/1.333104.1495015267!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Christina Hedman
Professor
![Christina Hedman](/polopoly_fs/1.396390.1550691005!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Gunilla Jansson
Professor emerita
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Maria Lim Falk
Universitetslektor
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Dorota Lubinska
Senior lecturer
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Ulrika Magnusson
Senior lecturer, Associate professor
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Goran Maljan
Adjunkt
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Marie Nelson
Universitetslektor
![Marie Nelson](/polopoly_fs/1.516583.1600262299!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Catrin Norrby
Prodekanus, Professor
![Catrin Norrby](/polopoly_fs/1.722122.1710418143!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Gunnar Norrman
Universitetslektor
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Enni Paul
Senior lecturer
![Enni Paul](/polopoly_fs/1.642244.1673439470!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Anna Persson
Adjunkt, doktorand
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Anders Philipsson
Senior lecturer, Assistant Head of Department
Olof Poignant
Doktorand
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Marta Quevedo Rodriguez
Doktorand
Azar Raoufi Masouleh
Doktorand
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Jenny Rosén
Senior lecturer, Associate professor
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Maria Rydell
Docent, Universitetslektor
![Maria Rydell](/polopoly_fs/1.398370.1535572416!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Karin Sandwall
Project manager
![Karin Sandwall](/polopoly_fs/1.254501.1446562591!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
Susan Sayehli
Universitetslektor
![Susan Sayehli](/polopoly_fs/1.476395.1576719353!/image/image.png_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.png)
Karin Sheikhi
Senior lecturer, Director of studies
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Klara Skogmyr Marian
Universitetslektor
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Gunlög Sundberg
Universitetslektor
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Maryann Su Lin Tan
Doktorand
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Jeanna Wennerberg
Universitetslektor
![Jeanna Wennerberg](/polopoly_fs/1.353924.1509093245!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_260/image.jpg)
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