Annika Karlsson
Senior lecturer

Presentation

My research focuses on teaching and learning in science classrooms where students’ multilingualism is regarded as a resource for their development of subject knowledge and disciplinary literacy. In teaching practices that employ translanguaging approaches, teachers and students draw upon all available linguistic resources, such as first and additional languages, visual modes, gestures, body language, and digital tools, in dynamic, functional, and pragmatic ways to support meaning-making. The research highlights the opportunities and challenges that translanguaging perspectives and strategies create for the inclusion of multilingual students, and thereby for their conditions to develop knowledge and literacy in the science subjects.