Teaching
I teach the following courses: ENG1100 English Grammar (lectures and groups), ENG2168 Words: English morphology and lexicology (seminars), ENG4112 Methods in English Language Research (seminars), ENG4116 Second Language Acquisition (seminars), and ENG1103 English Phonetics and Intonation (groups). Previously, I have also taught ENG1102 Translation and Practical Exercises, An Introduction, ENG2157/4157 Semantics and Pragmatics and ENG2158/4158 Translation into English.
Research
My research interests lie mainly within the fields of second language acquisition, translation studies and contrastive linguistics.
I am currently PI in the project MULTIWRITE, which investigates interactions between first, second and third languages in the writing of students in Norwegian upper secondary schools, as well as feedback in the three language subjects. In a final phase of the project we will try out different kinds of cross-curricular collaboration in cooperation with language teachers.
I am also leader of the research group TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language), which explores writing development in Norwegian pupils’ English, French, German and Spanish. As part of this work, the group has compiled a longitudinal corpus of texts written as regular school work. The TRAWL Corpus also contains feedback from teachers and rich metadata about the pupils and texts.