Academic Interests
- Norwegian as a second or third language
- Second language acquisition
- Learner corpora
- Sustainable feedback
- Language testing and assessment
- Development and use of online courses
- Artificial intelligence in language teaching
Teaching
Scientific development, projects, prizes
In 2014, when Tomson was employed by the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN), she compiled the NORINT Corpus together with Liv Andlem Harnæs, Else Ryen and the Text Laboratory. In 2016, Tomson together with Erik Juriks and Roger Solberg, received ILN's Distinguished Teaching Award for the MOOC course Introduction to Norwegian. The following year, in 2017, Tomson, Solberg and Juriks were awarded the University of Oslo's Education Prize for Introduction to Norwegian. Since 2018, Tomson has been responsible for the website Interaktive grammatikkoppgaver for internasjonale norskstudenter (IGIN). Tomson was ILN's Head of Teaching and Deputy Head of Department from 01.08.2017 to 31.07.2020. She led an EU funded project on didactics, "Masters of Didactics", from 01.01.2019 to 30.04.2021, and Tomson was one of the contributors to "Masters of Didactics" until the end of 2022.
Other
- 01.01.2025–present: 1. Deputy Representative for permanent academic staff to the board of the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
- 2018– : responsible for IGIN
- 01.09.2018–31.12.2022: 2. Deputy Representative on the board of the University of Oslo Library
- 2017–2020: The Faculty of Humanities' Deputy Representative to the board of the International Summer School