Introduction
I am a teacher and PhD student in Russian. I have a teaching degree and long experience of teaching Swedish, Russian and English on every level. My biggest merit in life, however, is that I am the mother of three Swedish-Russian bilingual girls – Victoria, Susie and Julia – and I have them to thank for discovering my main research interest: bilingual development.
Research interests
Language development and language learning, language contact, bilingualism, the Russian language in Sweden, linguistic socialisation in Russian-Swedish families, language attrition, language impairment.
Current projects
• Russian-Swedish Bilingual Acquisition: a case study;
• »Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment»
Papers
• De första orden hos ett tvåspråkigt barn, 2006
• Home Language Instruction in Sweden: Governmental Policy and Practical Reality, 2005
• Cross-linguistic Influence in Swedish-Russian Bilingual Children, 2003
• Educational Reforms in Sweden: Reasons and Outcomes, 2003
• Functionalist Approach and Human Capital Theory on Man, Society and Education, 2002
• Comparative Education as the Meeting-ground of Social Science Disciplines, 2002
• The Effects of Consciousness-raising and Practice on the Acquisition of the English Affricates by Swedish School Children, 2001
• Code-switching in Face-to-face and Telephone Conversations among Russian-Swedish Bilingual Adults, 2002
• Code-switching, Borrowing, Language Mixing and Interference between Swedish and Russian in Bilingual Children, 1988
• Learning Russian as a Majority Language in National Minority Schools, 1993
• How to Motivate a child to study Foreign Languages? 1992
• Teenages, Troubled Kids and Methods of their Uppbringing, 1991