Hildegunn Dirdal

Associate Professor - Britisk-amerikansk
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Room NT 625
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Visiting address Niels Treschows hus 6th floor Niels Henrik Abels vei 36
Postal address Postboks 1003 Blindern 0315 Oslo

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.

Tags: English, English language, Linguistics, Second language acquisition, Learner language, Contrastive linguistics, English-Norwegian contrasts, Corpus linguistics, Corpus development, Translation studies

Publications

  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2022). Development of L2 writing complexity: Clause types, L1 influence and individual differences. In Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka & Götz, Sandra (Ed.), Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027212580 . p. 81–113. doi: https:/doi.org/10.1075/scl.104.04dir.
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2022). Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of relative clauses by Norwegian learners of English . Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (NJLTL). ISSN 2703-8629. 10(2), p. 327–351. doi: 10.46364/njltl.v10i2.1079. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn; Hasund, Ingrid Kristine; Drange, Eli-Marie D.; Vold, Eva Thue & Berg, Elin Maria (2022). Design and construction of the Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL) Corpus: A longitudinal and multilingual young learner corpus. Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning (NJLTL). ISSN 2703-8629. 10(2). doi: 10.46364/njltl.v10i2.1005. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2021). L2 development of -ing clauses: A longitudinal study of Norwegian learners. In Pérez-Paredes, Pascual & Mark, Geraldine (Ed.), Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in Language Education. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 978 90 272 0989 4. p. 75–96. doi: 10.1075/scl.102.04dir. Full text in Research Archive
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2019). Factors influencing the translation of -ing participial free adjuncts: Semantic role, context and a translator's individual style. In Wiegand, Viola & Mahlberg, Michaela (Ed.), Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 9783110486728. p. 197–222. doi: 10.1515/9783110489071-008.
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2017). Student translators and the challenge of -ing clauses. In de Haan, Pieter; De Vries, Rina & Van Vuuren, Sanne (Ed.), Language, Learners and Levels: Progression and Variation.. Presses universitaires de Louvain. ISSN 978-2-87558-595-0. p. 203–225.
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2017). Sentence-initial "and/og" in English and Norwegian. In Janebová, Marketá; Lapshinova-Koltunski, Ekaterina & Martinková, Michaela (Ed.), Contrasting English and Other Languages through Corpora. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISSN 978-1-4438-9601-6. p. 102–129.
  • Egan, Thomas Laurence & Dirdal, Hildegunn (2017). Lexis in Contrast Today. In Egan, Thomas Laurence & Dirdal, Hildegunn (Ed.), Cross-linguistic Correspondences. From lexis to genre. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027259561. p. 1–33. doi: 10.1075/slcs.191.01ega.
  • Dirdal, Hildegunn (2014). Individual variation between translators in the use of clause building and clause reduction. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). ISSN 1890-9639. 6(1), p. 119–142. doi: 10.5617/osla.711.

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  • Graedler, Anne-Line; Dirdal, Hildegunn; Guldal, Tale Margrethe; Hasund, Ingrid Kristine; Rørvik, Sylvi & Nacey, Susan Lee [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2017). Tracking Written Learner Language (TRAWL): A longitudinal corpus of Norwegian pupils' written texts in second/foreign languages.
  • Graedler, Anne-Line; Rørvik, Sylvi; Dirdal, Hildegunn; Hasund, Ingrid Kristine & Drange, Eli-Marie D. (2017). "TraWL (Tracking Written Learner language): Corpus design and research plans".

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Published Sep. 23, 2010 12:00 PM - Last modified May 3, 2023 3:19 PM

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