I have a background in teaching English and French in multiple countries, as well as international research experience that draws from government think tank- and polling company-related work. My research interests include language learning motivation and grit, learner and teacher self-regulation, foreign language anxiety and self-efficacy, multilingual language learner and teacher mindsets, teacher identity, teacher education, the implementation of multilingual pedagogies by foreign language teachers, multicultural and culturally responsive teaching, the promotion of multimodal competence and literacy among learners, literature in language education, and family language policy and emotions in transnational multilingual families.
Responsibilities
I have been involved in teaching the following courses:
In the GLU (Grunnskolelærerutdanning) programme:
- English 1: Language and Language Learning
- English 3: Language and Language Learning II
- English 4: Text and Culture II
- English 7: Multilingualism and Culture
Other courses:
- ENG104N English Grammar and Usage
- KK-ENG8101 Text and Written Communication (Kompetanse for kvalitet)
- ENG201N English Language and Society
Member of the research group Multilingualism on My Mind (MoMM) and co-head of the research group Flerspråklighet, læring og utvikling.
- Associate Editor, Cogent Education, Taylor & Francis
- Editorial board member, BMC Psychology, Springer Nature
- Editorial board member, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Nature Portfolio, Springer
- Editorial board member, Discover Education, Springer
- Founding editorial board member, Language Teaching and English Literature (LTEL), University of Buckingham Press
Competences
- Multilingual pedagogies
- Teacher education
- Literature in language education
- Second language acquisition
- English and foreign language didactics
- Multimodal competence and literacy
CV
- Doctor of Philosophy; English- and Foreign Language Didactics; Thesis: Multilingual pedagogy in Norway and Russia; University of Bergen, Norway (2021)
- Master of Arts; Applied Linguistics; Thesis: The use of literary texts in teaching English as a foreign language; Institute of Education (IoE), University College London, UK (2017)
- Bachelor of Arts; International Affairs (minor: French Language and Literature); The George Washington University, USA (2006)