Department of Foreign Languages
Recent Submissions
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“I’m a salesman and my client is China”: Language learning motivation, multicultural attitudes, and multilingualism among university students in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Central Asian republics represent an interesting yet little-studied space for researching the interplay between language learning motivation (LLM), multiculturalism, and multilingualism given their cultural and linguistic ... -
School Teachers’ Perceptions of Similarities and Differences between Teaching English and a Non-Language Subject
(Journal article, 2021)Teaching a language subject in school is often referred to as being different and unique compared to teaching a non-language subject. However, the few existing studies examining this claim have mainly investigated the ... -
Researching intercultural competence in language learners: Gaps between theory and methodology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Traditional approaches to intercultural competence (IC) in language learning have been criticised for reproducing cultural differentialism, a theoretical perspective which emphasises that people are different due to essential ... -
Norwegian L1 teachers’ beliefs about a multilingual approach in increasingly diverse classrooms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The L1 subject is a central meeting place for all students regardless of their linguistic backgrounds. Thus explorations of multilingualism in the L1 subject provide the potential for enhancing all students’ multilinguality. ... -
Comics as a multimodal resource and students’ willingness to communicate in Russian
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The multimodal nature of daily interactions in the twenty-first century has led to growing calls for the inclusion of multimodal content like comics in foreign language classrooms. Such content, as opposed to traditional ... -
Teachers’ reported implementation of multilingual teaching practices in foreign language classrooms in Norway and Russia
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study investigated the extent to which 517 teachers of English, French, German, and Spanish in Norwegian and Russian schools reported drawing on their and their students' multilingualism as a resource and boosting ... -
“They Made us into a Race. We Made Ourselves into a People”: A Corpus Study of Contemporary Black American Group Identity in the Non‑Fictional Writings of Ta‑Nehisi Coates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article examines representations of contemporary Black American identity in the non-fictional writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates. The dataset is a self-compiled specialized corpus of Coates’s non-fictional writings from ... -
The Evolution of Intercultural Communicative Competence: Conceptualisations, Critiques and Consequences for 21st Century Classroom Practice
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article discusses intercultural communicative competence (ICC) as a present-day theoretical and practical concern. Byram’s (1997) model of ICC serves as a point of departure for the discussion since this is a theoretical ... -
Discrimination against Roma: Evidence from two survey experiments in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Norway has a history of tough assimilation of the first migration of Roma people, known as the Tater/Romani people. The state introduced laws that discriminated against the Tater/Romani people. This article traces the ... -
From Celebrated Novel to Media Outrage: The Public Debate Surrounding the Miniseries Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes
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Between Parody and Pastiche: The Posthuman Biomechanics of Bulgakov’s Novellas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The article examines the birth of biomechanics in Soviet scientific discourses and how it was absorbed by the theater and literature of the day, in a reading of Michail Bulgakov’s three novellas “D′javoljada” (1924), ... -
Multilingual, bilingual, and monolingual Arabic teachers’ development of learner self‐regulation and language awareness in the Emirates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Multilingual learning and teaching have been receiving growing attention of late as many cities and states undergo significant demographic changes brought about by increasing levels of human migration. The onset of ... -
Hostility online: Flaming, trolling, and the public debate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Whereas the amount of hostility found online increases, scholarly interest in online hostility is decreasing. In this paper, I discuss three questions central to the study of online hostility, namely 1) what role the text, ... -
Multilingualism in the linguistic landscape of Eastern China: City residents' perceptions and attitudes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Linguistic landscape (LL) is a thriving strand of inquiry in sociolinguistics to interpret the multilingual representations in public space. Taking city residents as LL readers, this paper examines their opinions about the ... -
Developing and validating a questionnaire on young learners’ multilingualism and multilingual identity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Validation of data collection instruments is a necessary step in all research and should be regarded as an integral component in every stage of the research process; however, the validation process is often not accounted ... -
Exploring pre-service language teachers’ mindsets using a sorting activity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Researching mindsets has become a topic of considerable interest in language learning. However, the majority of studies tend to focus on learners and their mindsets, with very little research examining the mindsets of ... -
¿Qué pinga es esto? Usos disfemísticos en el español de Cuba
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The research aims to examine the path that the lexeme pinga has had in the Spanish language, specifically in the Cuban variant of Spanish, to identify its current uses in this variety, and to describe the semantic, pragmatic, ... -
The Ungspråk project: Researching multilingualism and multilingual identity in lower secondary schools
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The main objective of this article is to discuss the theoretical background and rationale for developing Ungspråk, a longitudinal, mixed methods study set in Norwegian lower secondary schools. The paper starts with an ... -
One Loveheart at a Time: The Language of Emoji and the Building of Affective Community in the Digital Medieval Studies Environment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Old Books, New Science (OBNS) Lab began using Slack in May 2016 to facilitate the work of a diverse research group at the University of Toronto. Yet the OBNS Slack does not simply facilitate scholarly communication: ...
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