Mari Johanne Wikhaug Andersen

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Visiting address Henrik Wergelands hus
Postal address Postboks 1079 Blindern 0316 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Norwegian as a second language
  • Multilingualism in the classroom
  • Languages in vocational education and training (VET)
  • Education and language policy
  • Teacher agency
  • Language attitudes
  • Teachers' and students' perspectives in multilingual and multicultural classrooms
  • Multilingual pedagogies (incl. translanguaging)
  • The school subject Norwegian

My PhD project concerns the role of and space for multilingualism in mainstream vocational education in Norway. I adopt a linguistic-ethnographic methodology, and draw on an extensive data material (including, but not limited to, observations, interviews and policy documents), in my analyses in order to highlight vocational teachers' and their students' experiences related to multilingualism in vocational education. Central theoretical lenses include language ideologies (e.g. monolingual ideology (e.g. Ortega, 2019) and elite multilingualism (e.g. Barakos & Selleck, 2019; Nørreby, 2020)), teacher agency (Priestley et al., 2015) and policy enactment (Ball et al., 2012).

Background

Tags: Scandinavian linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Language education, Language Pedagogy, Education policy, Language policy, Vocational education and training

Publications

  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2023). Between a rock and a hard place: On multilingualism and teacher agency in Norwegian vocational education. Acta Didactica Norden (ADNO). ISSN 2535-8219. 17(3). doi: 10.5617/adno.9841. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Tonne, Ingebjørg; Onnis, Luca; Rodina, Yulia; Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug; Steien, Guri Bordal & Gudmundsen, Jenny [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2023). Multilingual/second language acquisition and learning across the lifespan.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2023). Multilingualism in Norwegian mainstream vocational education: Language ideologies, policy, and the role of the teacher.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2023). Flerspråklighet i den ordinære yrkesopplæringa.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2023). Teaching hairdressing using English materials in a linguistically diverse VET classroom in Norway: Evaluating a digital learning platform .
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2023). "Solid form, diagonal forward line": En engelskspråklig digital læringsressurs som støtte og utfordring i en språklig heterogen yrkesfagklasse.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Powerful and powerless teachers: Multilingualism and policy enactment in mainstream vocational education in Norway .
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Multilingualism in Norwegian vocational education: Policy idealism vs. teachers’ realism?
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Å undervise mellom barken og veden: Lærerperspektiver på flerspråklighet.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Språklig og strukturell (av)makt: Lærerperspektiver på flerspråklighet i yrkesfagene .
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Yrkesfaglærere mellom barken og veden: En realitetsorientering om flerspråklighet i skolen.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Språklig makt og strukturell avmakt i yrkesfagene.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). "Det er ikke så lett å forklare det, for de skjønner ikke den der vanlige norsken heller": On teaching specialized vocational subject matter to newly arrived students.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2022). Å undervise mellom barken og veden: Lærerperspektiver på flerspråklighet i yrkesfagene .
  • Andersen, Mari Johanne Wikhaug (2021). Yrkesfaglæreres oppfatninger om flerspråklighet.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2021). "We speak Norwegian in the classroom": Teachers' beliefs and monolingual practices in mainstream vocational classes.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2021). Multilingual students, mainly monolingual classroom: Beliefs and practices of a vocational program subject teacher.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2020). Exploring multilingualism in mainstream vocational classes (during a pandemic) – access, methods and pilot data.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2016). Unge svenskers møte med den norske talemålsvariasjonen. Språk i Norden. ISSN 2246-1701. p. 89–99.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2014). «Nynorsk är svårt att förstå. Jag tycker mer om gammelnorsk.» Svensker i Oslo og den norske talemålsvariasjonen.
  • Andersen, Mari J. Wikhaug (2014). "Nynorsk är svårt att förstå. Jag tycker mer om gammelnorsk". Svensker i Oslo og den norske talemålsvariasjonen. Universitetet i Oslo.

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Published May 14, 2019 2:44 PM - Last modified Feb. 15, 2023 10:43 AM