Do feel free to follow us: In this 3-year, grant-funded project, we are trying to get a better understanding of the effect of self-initiated, extramural L2 activities (e.g. gaming, social media) on younger learners’ L2 writing development. For updates: sites.google.com/view/compleexi…

Research team: Henrik Kaatari, Ying Wang, Tove Larsson, Pia Sundqvist 🇸🇪🇳🇴, and Terry Kim.

Save the dates! The next "Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language" ICOP-L2 conference will be organised by Newcastle University on 24-26 August 2026! Newcastle University Applied Linguistics & Communication at Newcastle MARG Newcastle

Articles keep coming out from The MultiLingual Spaces project! Marie Källkvist Erica Sandlund me and Henrik Gyllstad On translanguaging in lower secondary classrooms. (If problems accessing the paper, pls contact me) proquest.com/scholarly-jour…

We are delighted to have Profs. Möller-Omrani, Sundqvist (Pia Sundqvist 🇸🇪🇳🇴), Mourão and Reinders (Hayo Reinders) as our plenary speakers. You can find more information about them: laslab.eus/plenary-speake…

I also LOVE the cover! Happy to be contributing to this volume with my very first study of a third-age L2 English learner. It is a case study of “Anders”, an octogenarian.

Read about escapism and @extramuralenglish! My PhD student Nasrin Ulfat's first study: Language learning and escapism: how five Norwegian adolescents escape reality through reading and/or gaming extramurally in L2 English tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Escapism and #extramuralenglish - check out my PhD student Nasrin Ulfat’s study in case you have not seen it. Det utdanningsvitskaplege fakultet (UiO)

OS-BRONS! Judokan Tara Babulfath tar Sveriges första medalj i Paris 2024! 🥉🇸🇪

Thank you so much for reading and recommending our forthcoming book, Ema Ushioda! #gratitude #academichappiness

Sweden's Truls Möregårdh was on the verge of defeat in the table tennis Olympic final and said he wanted to do something fun for the crowd. This is so good

Unforgettable performance! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪flash-duplantis-breaks-world-pole-vault-record-with-625m-at-paris-olympics worldathletics.org/competitions/o…

Learn more about telecollaboration and virtual exchange by reading this volume from the VALIANT project! OA -> hooray! I have co-authored ch. 2 with brilliant PI Robert O'Dowd + ch. 6 with four other superb scholars: M. Vinagre, Anna Nicolaou, Shannon Sauro, and J. Rogaten. Happy day:)

Eurosla 34 is in Tromsø, Norway, June 25 – 28 2025. Call for papers is out! We welcome submissions in all areas and approaches to the study of second, foreign or additional languages, bilingualism and multilingualism. en.uit.no/tavla/artikkel…

Congrats to @unioslo_uv & CREATE, Norway’s first Centre of Excellence in Educational Sciences. Arne Lervåg, PI. Wonderful talk dean Rita Hvistendahl! Looking forward to important work on reducing inequality in education. All kids deserve a proper chance in life and education is key.

Come join us for AZTESOL at Northern Arizona University on October 4-5! More info and registration: aztesol.org/attend/upcomin…

We are excited to announce a call for chapters for a volume that aims to explore language teacher educators’ psychology. Please find the call below. Please share in your networks and let’s put LTEs’ psychology and wellbeing more in the limelight! drive.google.com/file/d/1o_fdPL…

Please come join us for the next online LANA research seminar! Randi Reppen will be talking about the challenges of word lists. September 27, 8:30am AZ / 4:30pm UK The Zoom link can be found in the flyer below. The LANA corpus

Our great VALIANT team!🙏👍