From Dec. 1, 2022: Professor emerita.
Since 2017, I have been part of a team who have developed and taught a web-based in-service course for teachers (English didactics). I also teach a PhD course in academic writing, and I supervise master- and PhD candidates.
My research projects have to do with historical perspectives on textbooks and teaching materials, participants’ experiences with a web-based in-service training course, and with the use of song in education.
"Online educator of the year" awarded by Fleksibel utdanning Norge (2020)
Competences
Link to Cristin
Research networks
Classroom reasearch - quality in education
Educational resources: history and analysis
CV
Education
1975 Teacher's certificate, Bergen college of education
1977/78 One year studies at University of California / Berkeley.
1979 MA in English, University of Trondheim. Thesis: Towards Ideological Clarity. A Study of Imamu Amiri Baraka's Plays.
1999/2000 Fulbright scholar, University of Colorado / Boulder.
2007 PhD (Dr. art.). University of Bergen. Thesis: Questions of Culture and Context in English Language Textbooks. A Study of Textbooks for the Teaching of English in Norway.
Work experience
1979-1992 Assistant professor of English, Nesna college of education (leave 1989-91).
1989-1991 Project leader: Regional cultural cooperation, Nordland county.
1990-1992 Freelance journalist, Rana Blad.
1992 - dd Assistant professor / professor in English / English didactics, Vestfold university college / Buskerud and Vestfold /university college / University college of Southeast Norway / University of Southeast Norway.
2017-2019 Professor II, NORD University
Publications
(last ten years)
2021
- Textbook analysis: The case of the first Nicaraguan ELT series (with Nahúm Torrez). ELT Journal 1, https://doi.org/10.1093/elt/ccaa051
- Patriotism, discipline and joy in early Nordic school songbooks (with Johan Tønnesson). In Roos, Merethe, Kjell Lars Berge, Henrik Edgren, Piirjo Hiidenmaa & Christina Matthisen (eds.). Exploring Textbooks and Cultural Change in Nordic Education 1536-2020. Brill Sense, 174-189.
Revised texts
- English for Teachers and Learners, 2nd. ed. (With Mona Evelyn Flognfeldt). Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
2020
- Teaching and learning materials. In Dypedahl, Magne, Christian Carlsen & Sarah Hoem Iversen (eds.). Teaching and Learning English, 2nd. ed. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- Dypedahl, Magne & Ragnhild Lund (eds.). Teaching and Learning English Interculturally. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- Intercultural learning and global citizenship in the English language classroom (with Magne Dypedahl). In Teaching and Learning English Interculturally, 10-25.
- Language learning and intercultural learning. In Teaching and Learning English Interculturally, 26-40.
- Intercultural learning in the classroom: some general principles (with Maria Casado Villanueva). In Teaching and Learning English Interculturally, 150-163.
Revised texts
- Writing in English (with Maria Casado Villanueva). In Carlsen, Christian, Magne Dypedahl & Sarah Hoem Iversen (eds.). Teaching and Learning English, 2nd. ed. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 122-140.
- Skriving i fremmedspråk (with Maria Casado Villanueva). In Bjørke, Camilla & Åsta Haukås (eds.). Fremmedspråkdidaktikk, 3rd. ed. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 121-140.
2019
- Questions of Culture and Context in English Language Textbooks. A Study of Textbooks for the Teaching of English in Norway. In Brevik, Lisbeth M. & Ulrikke Rindal (eds.). English didactics in Norway - a collection of doctoral research 1988-2018. Universitetsforlaget, 252-273.
2018
- Writing in English (with Maria Casado Villanueva). In Bøhn, Henrik, Magne Dypedahl & Gro Anita Myklevold. Engelskdidaktikk. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- Skriving i fremmedspråk (with Maria Casado Villanueva). In Bjørke, Camilla, Magne Dypedahl og Åsta Haukås (eds.). Fremmedspråksdidaktikk, 2nd. ed. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
2017
- Why should learners of English read? Norwegian English teachers’ notions of EFL reading (with Anja Synnøve Bakken as first author). Teaching and Teacher Education. International Journal of Research and Studies 2017 (70), 78-87.
- «I feel much more confident now.» Om engelsklærere og videreutdanning (with Therese Tishakov). In Kverndokken, Kåre, Norunn Askeland & Henriette Hogga Siljan (eds.). Kvalitet og kreativitet i klasserommet – ulike perspektiver på undervisning. Fagbokforlaget / Landslaget for norskundervisning, 171-192.
2016
- Searching for the indigenous: Urfolk i engelskverket Searching. In Askeland, Norunn & Bente Aamotsbakken (eds.). Folk uten land? Å gi stemme og status til urfolk og nasjonale minoriteter. Portal forlag, 15-33.
- English for Teachers and Learners (with Mona Evelyn Flognfeldt). Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
- Handwriting as a tool for learning in ELT. ELT Journal 70/1, 48-56.
2015
- All write: Samarbeid om skriving i engelskopplæringen. Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology, 3 (2), 62-73.
2014
- Writing in EFL teachers’ education. Acta Didactica Vol. 8, nr. 1, 1-18.
- Kulturkunnskap og språkopplæring. In Bjørke, Camilla, Magne Dypedahl & Gro-Anita Myklevold (eds.). Fremmedspråksdidaktikk. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 168-179.
- Skriving i språkfagene. In Bjørke, Camilla, Magne Dypedahl & Gro-Anita Myklevold (eds.). Fremmedspråksdidaktikk. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 43-57.
2013
- Bli bedre i engelsk. Universitetsforlaget.
- Skriving i engelsk fellesfag, Vg1 (with Fredrik Borgen). In Askeland, Norunn & Bente Aamotsbakken (eds.). Syn for skriving. Læringsressurser og skriving i skolens tekstkulturer. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 151-170.
- Skriveoppgaver i to engelsklæreverk for mellomtrinnet. In Askeland, Norunn, Eva Maagerø & Bente Aamotsbakken (eds.). Læreboka. Studier i ulike læreboktekster. Akademika forlag, 83-101.
2012
- Kulturforskjeller: Et nytt fokus i engelskopplæringen. Norsk Pedagogisk Tidsskrift, 01/2012, 42-53.
- Sing English: Om sangens potensial i engelskopplæringen. Acta Didactica Norge. Vol. 6, nr. 1, 2012, 1-15.
2011
- Presentasjonen av ‘fremmede land og folk’ i engelskbøker for ungdomstrinnet. En studie av lærebøker i engelsk fra 1889 til 1974. In Skjelbred, Dagrun & Bente Aamotsbakken (eds.). Norsk Lærebokhistorie - en kultur- og danningshistorie III. Novus forlag, 241-264.