New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education

BethAnne Paulsrud is a Senior Lecturer of English at Dalarna University, Sweden. Her research focuses on multilingualism in educational policy and practice, English and EMI in Sweden, and family language policy. She has co-edited two volumes on translanguaging and education, including New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education (Multilingual Matters, 2017).

Dr. Jenny Rosén is Associate Professor of Swedish as a Second Language at the Department of Language Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests are multilingualism, second language learning and literacy in policy and practice in varied educational settings. She is currently working on collaborative research projects with teachers in adult education in Sweden.

Boglárka Straszer is Associate Professor in Swedish as a Second Language and teacher trainer at Dalarna University, Sweden, with 25 years of experience teaching foreign languages, second languages, mother tongue and sociolinguistics. Her research interests include the sociology of language, linguistic ethnography, multilingualism at the family, group and society level, translanguaging, language identity, attitudes, linguistic schoolscaping and education in various immigrant and minority language settings.

Dr. Åsa Wedin holds a PhD in Bilingualism and is a Professor in Educational Work at Dalarna University, Sweden. With a background as a primary school teacher, Wedin’s main research interests are in multilingualism and literacy in education. She has carried out research in Tanzania, on literacy practices in primary school, and in Sweden on literacy and interactional patterns in classrooms and on conditions for multilingual students’ learning. Her research is ethnographically inspired, particularly using linguistic ethnography and theoretical perspectives where languaging is studied as social and cultural practices and where opportunities for learning are related to questions of power.