Presentation
- Professor of Swedish and Didactics, 2026, Malmö University
- Professor of Swedish as a Second Language, 2024, Linnaeus University (Visiting Professor)
- Associate Professor of Swedish and Didactics, 2021, Malmö University
- PhD in Swedish and Didactics, 2019, Malmö University
Presently, I am primarily engaged as Visiting Professor of Swedish as a Second Language at Linnaeus University.
My research primarily focuses on the school subject Swedish as a second language, vocationally oriented language teaching in Swedish for immigrants, linguistic dimensions in subject teaching, and literacy teaching in adult education and primary school. My research often builds on systemic-functional linguistics, Bernstein's sociology of education and critical discourse analysis. An important aim is to shed light on possibilities for promoting students awareness of texts and language in way which creates possibilities for moving between content-area discourses and looking at them critically.
I am a certified primary school teacher with several years experience as a language teacher in basic adult education. In higher education, my teaching mostly involve Swedish as a second language for teachers and supervision of students' theses. I also supervise PhD students in the post-graduate study programme SLDI (Languages and Literature in Education). Previously, I have been Subject Coordinator for Swedish as a second language in the Secondary Teaching Program and course leader for indepenent theses in Swedish and VAL. In 2025, I was appointed as a Distinguished University Teacher.
Selected research projects I am leading:
- DEPTH – Design of explicit phonics instruction: Teachers' multimodal strategies and students' engagement (Swedish Research Council, 2026–2029)
- Language Development Beyond the Classroom: A Collaborative Study of Adult Migrants in the Workplace (Knowledge Foundation, 2025–2030)
- Educational background, language learning strategies and language development among adult second-language learners of Swedish (Crafoord, 2024–2026).
- Conditions for reading and writing development? Collaboration between schools and libraries in socially disadvantaged areas. (National R&D Network for activities facing significant challenges, 2024–2025).
- Subject-specific text practices in the teaching of Swedish as a second language in primary school (Crafoord, 2022–2024)
- A language teaching perspective on langauge practicum and work-related language education for SFI students (practice-based research collaboration with a municipality financed by FINSAM, 2022–2023)
