Eva Lindgren

Umeå University | UMU · Department of Language Studies

In democratic societies, exchange of written opinion is fundamental, but since the 1990s, public debate has gradually moved away from print media platforms to digital media platforms. In order to understand how a shift from print to digital media in opinion-oriented writing may have consequences for interaction and participation, it is relevant to...

Teaching Indigenous languages can be supported by culturally sensitive teaching that is grounded in the Indigenous culture, values, and language. In the Sami context in Sweden, culturally sensitive teaching can be connected to the local culture and place, and may enable teachers to construct knowledge together with students and to enhance cultural...

Participatory research methods in education, such as action research, have been around for some time. Recently, not only researchers but also research policy makers have highlighted the importance of participation between society and research. Citizen science, science with and for society, and practice-based educational research are examples of app...

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This article explores processes of place-making through the study of the linguistic landscape of a small-size town in Northern Sweden. The analysis of signs is used as a tool for examining the role and visibility of actors in the landscape. For this purpose, we examine who the authors are, what forms of multilingualism can be observed, and who has...

Med utgångspunkt i New Literacy Studies syn på skrivande som en social praktik syftar föreliggande studie till att synliggöra ungdomars skrivpraktiker på fritiden. Mer specifikt undersöktes vad ungdomar skriver, i vilka syften de skriver, vilka uppfattningar de har om sitt eget skrivande och hur dessa uppfattningar relaterar till vad och i vilka sy...

This special issue focuses both on the development of methods in documentation, analysis and visualization of linguistic landscapes and theories/results stemming from these methodologies. To date, research on linguistic landscapes has mainly focused on multilingual and multiethnic urban areas. Hence, we particularly welcome contributions that explo...

Bilingual literacy not only supports academic success it also contributes to bilingual children's development of identity. However, not all contexts allow children to develop their writing fluency in their first language (L1) to the same degree as in their school language, their second language (L2). Few studies have explored bilingual children's w...

Documenting and analyzing how multilingualism materializes around us gives insights in the use, hierarchies and inclusions of languages in society. The visualization of these insights, however, is often challenging as characteristics of languages, their flows, movements etc. demand contextualization and clarifications that can be difficult to rende...

This book investigates multilingual literacy practices, explores the technology applied in different educational frameworks, the centrality of multilingual literacy in non-formal, informal and formal educational contexts, as well as its presence in everyday life. Thematically clustered in four parts, the chapters present an overview of theory relat...

This paper gives an account of the history of foreign language values in Sweden from the seventeenth century to the present. The paper is informed by sociocultural standpoints on language and language learn-ing according to which language is a dynamic tool that is appropriated by individuals to achieve particular purposes, and that dialogically cre...

This article focuses on the methodology developed in a mixed-method study situated in sparsely populated areas in Sweden within a project that aims at investigating the role of language in place-making and in relation to various groups. These areas have a rich history of multilingualism as well as a more recent influx of multilingualism - the forme...

Views about what writing is and how it should be taught have varied over the years as well as across contexts. Studies of curricula, teaching materials, and teaching practices have shown a strong focus on skills, genres, and processes, but few have asked teachers about their perspectives on writing. In this article we explore what views, or discour...

In this article, researchers in the field of early writing identify underlying beliefs and values about writing and learning to write for the beginning years of formal schooling in four jurisdictions: the American state of Connecticut, New Zealand, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Sweden, as reflected in the respective curricula and standards...

In this chapter we use a mixed methods approach for the longitudinal study of three young learners developing their attitudes towards learning a foreign language and towards themselves as language learners. In the light of evidence from this six year study we review their achievements across a number of dimensions.

Sami are Indigenous languages spoken by the Sami people in the northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia. All Sami languages are endangered because of historically aggressive assimilation policies. Currently Sami communities are working actively with language revitalisation processes. This article examines pupils’ access to knowledge in and about Sa...

Sápmi is a geographical area that runs across the Kola Peninsula in Russia to northern Finland, Norway and Sweden. All Sami languages have been going through a rapid language change process and many of the traditional language domains have disappeared during the last decades due to previous national and local language policies. Nevertheless, recent...

This paper provides an introduction to the Thematic Issue of Education Inquiry, reporting on four studies conducted in the field of early language learning (ELL) in instructed contexts. The paper g ...

One impact of globalization is that English has achieved a natural place among the languages used by children in the Scandinavian Sápmi. The children speak or are learning North Sami, a national language (Finnish, Norwegian or Swedish) and English as compulsory subjects. This chapter draws on English data collected in a literacy research project in...

Over the past decade writing has become an everyday activity for most people around the globe. Indeed, there seems to be a movement away from reading as the main literacy activity, mass reading, into what Brandt (2001) has described as an era of mass writing. The affordances of digital media for writing are enormous, and the impact of writing for c...

Our central purpose in compiling this book is to contribute to bridging the perceived gap between research and practice within the field of language education. In focusing on the relationship between research and practice in language teaching and learning we draw on a range of disciplines that are not commonly integrated. In so doing, we present ne...

Endnote: We hope this selection of papers from the Conference gives readers a flavour of the event. Post-conference feedback indicated that delegates found presentations to be of an extremely high standard and the Conference team received many words of praise for the success of the event. We would like to extend our thanks to all who participated a...

Plagiarism has gained much public attention with media, corporations, and research- ers leading the way. The general public’s perception is that plagiarism is a “plague” spreading without control within our educational institutes. Furthermore, a social perception has been created that the Internet is the “catalyst” of modern-day pla- giarism. This...

This study examines the use of interactional resources in letters to a penfriend of Swedish 11-year-olds in Swedish (L1) and English (FL) from a multi-competence perspective. The objectives of the study are to ascertain whether the language in which the letters were written and the gender of the writers influenced the extent to which interactional...

The project Early Language Learning in Europe (ELLiE) has studied the longitudinal effects of an early foreign language (FL) start in seven European contexts. This article presents a sub-study of ELLiE that investigates the impact of out-of-school factors on learners' listening and reading skills in year four of formal FL instruction. More specific...

Observational learning has proved to be an excellent method to help writers develop their writing skills. By observing another writer producing text, or one's own text developing on the computer screen, writers are able to focus their full attention on how a text is produced without also having to focus on the writing task itself. Several studies o...

Awareness of the reader and ability to adapt the text to the reader are assumed to be important aspects of successful writing. Models of writing development include the aspect of reader awareness, as a rhetorical goal, that writers develop gradually and that eventually distinguishes expert writers from novice writers. However, developing writers ca...

Life-long learning skills have moved from being a side-affect of a formal education to skills that are explicitly trained during a university degree. In a case study a University class undertook a translation from Swedish to English in a keystroke logging environment and then replayed their translations in pairs while discussing their thought proce...

In a case study a University class undertook a translation from Swedish to English in a keystroke logging environment and then replayed their translations in pairs while discussing their thought processes when undertaking the translations, and why they made particular choices and changes to their translations. Computer keystroke logging coupled wit...

This paper presents a study of computer based text development processes performed by ten native English language writers. The aim of this study is to analyse the text development process at a micro-level using a computer to explore whether unique keystroke patterns exist that can be used to identify individuals and different writing tasks. Keystro...

In a case study a University class undertook a translation from Swedish to English in a keystroke logging environment and then replayed their translations in pairs while discussing their thought processes when undertaking the translations, and why they made particular choices and changes to their translations. Computer keystroke logging coupled wit...

In this paper we use keystroke logging to examine the development of fluency and revision in high school L1 Swedish and L2 English writing. Each writer wrote one text in English and one in Swedish in each year of the study. Using a combination of statistical and automatic analyses of the keystroke log, we attempted to investigate: i) how the on-lin...

This article discusses the use of computer logging as a means of investigating aspects of the second language (L2) writing process as writers are engaged in producing text at the keyboard. The observation of writing by means of this method provides researchers with detailed information concerning aspects of the planning, formulation, and revision p...

In this chapter an instructional format, Peer-Based Intervention (PBI) using computer keystroke logging is investigated as a computer technology to enhance language acquisition. In PBI, a process-oriented approach is taken, in which noticing, reflection and language awareness are central concepts of language learning. The method aims to promote lea...

In this paper we use keystroke logging to examine the development of fluency and revision in high school L1 Swedish and L2 English writing. Each writer wrote one text in English and one in Swedish in each year of the study. Using a combination of statistical and automatic analyses of the keystroke log, we attempted to investigate: i) how the on-lin...

In this chapter an instructional format, Peer-Based Intervention (PBI) using computer keystroke logging is investigated as a computer technology to enhance language acquisition. In PBI, a process-oriented approach is taken, in which noticing, reflection and language awareness are central concepts of language learning. The method aims to promote lea...

This chapter presents the use of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for data mining and visualising information about cognitive activities involved in writing. The information can be collected from various sources, such as keystroke logs, manual analysis of stimulated recall sessions and think-aloud protocols. After an introduction to the G...

This subchapter provides an introduction to the possibilities and limitations of digital tools for recording of writing processes, a comprehensive framework in which the digital tools that are explained further in the subchapters 2-5 are integrated and a critical perspective to the characteristics of the tools, their usage and related automatic ana...

This chapter presents and discusses a method, peer-based intervention (PBI), in which conscious reflection of key-stroke logged writing sessions is used to improve written composition. Multiple writing opportunities are used together with discussion and observation of the writer’s own and a peer’s text. The method entails the theoretical assumption...

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The writing process has long been a subject for investigation. Until recently researchers have been restricted to written protocols for the analysis of writing sessions. These provide vast amounts of information from which it is impossible to create detailed mental representations of the writer’s movements around the text, revision activity, or pau...

This article presents the results of a study carried out in Sweden to investigate the promotion of self-assessment and reflection in the adult second language (L2) classroom. A method is proposed in which the computer is used first to record a writing session, and later to replay the entire text production in retrospective peer sessions. The method...

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing – Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), 12-13. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technolo...