Languages and Cultures in Education (LaCiE)
This group unites researchers studying the role of languages and cultures in educational contexts across all levels, including a focus on second and foreign language education and assessment (Danish, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish), plurilingualism, interculturality, and the interplay between language and content learning.
We share an interest in languages and cultures in educational contexts, language acquisition, language instruction and methodology, and in the conceptualization of relevant language repertoires in academia.
Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches from disciplines such as linguistics, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), language pedagogy, and language policy, we seek insight into language teaching and learning in education through empirical studies, theory development, and national and international research cooperation.
Projects within the research group focus on language learning and use in different educational contexts, including language planning and evaluation. This includes a focus on modernization of language programs through the transformation of the interface between language, culture, and intercultural competencies, including Content and Language Integrated Learning/EMI and emerging cross-languages approaches such as translanguaging and plurilingual education.
Our research and dissemination support our position as a stronghold in the development of languages in education, both in Denmark and abroad, through continued cooperation with schools, university colleges, and ministries.
- The role of languages in teaching and learning at all educational levels
- Transitions across educational stages (primary, secondary, tertiary)
- The interaction between language, culture, and society in educational contexts
- Plurilingual education, translanguaging, intercultural education
- CLIL, EMI, and language for specific purposes/domains
- Literacy development, with focus on both reading and writing
- Foreign-language acquisition, learning processes and the use of digital media and digitally mediated communication, including online text corpora in language learning and teaching
- Language testing and assessment, including a focus on literacy
- The role of language anxiety in language learning and maintenance
- Teacher and student cognition
- The development of research-based teaching proficiency in Danish, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
- Follow-up research within the field of Language Support for German and French (‘Sprogløft’), recently funded by the Danish government
Following the announcement of a national government strategy for language education in Denmark, the research group contributes to the development and implementation of new forms of foreign language education from primary school through secondary school and into tertiary education, including training of language teachers. This entails cooperating with stakeholders in various (professional) organisations, institutions and ministries and making the research of the members available as a knowledge base for further development.
- A database across languages and levels: CLIL-based teaching materials (in Danish)
- AI and the University - Towards a sociolinguistics of literacy and voice in the age of generative language technology
- CLIL in Languages Other Than English – Successful Transitions across Educational Stages
- Language Support for German and French/German and French as an additional competence (in Danish)
- Linguistic distance, language learning, and educational attainment
- Models for teaching language as an additional competence (MUST)
- Online intercultural exchanges across languages in higher education (in Danish)
- Orality in French in the transition between primary, secondary and tertiary education (in Danish)
- Plurilingual Education – Minority and Majority Students' Language Awareness across Educational Levels (PE-LAL)
- TOEPAS (Test of Oral English Proficiency for Academic Staff) – validation and further development
- Towards a new model of communicative competence in multilingual higher education (in Danish)
- What can we learn about each other? – Digital Danish-German language encouters (in Danish)
- Developing young learners’ intercultural competence using picture books – the attitudinal dimension and empathy in primary English teaching
- English as a Relationship-building Resource Among Young Danes
- Exploring language anxiety in German and French heritage speakers – a comparative study
- Exploring Problem Sources of Disfluency in Second Language Production in Consecutive Interpreting
- Integrating digital information literacy in a FL writing test: Implications for teaching and assessment
- Language ecology in the classroom
- Language Learning Strategies of Multilingual Students in Denmark
- Language Awareness in the Context of Plurilingual Education – A Curriculum and Multiple Case Study across Language Subjects and Educational Levels in Primary and Lower Secondary School
- Curricular coherence in language subjects – vertically and horizontally
- ‘Vi skal på floor i aften’: A Digital Ethnography Project on Social Media Use and its Effect on the Linguistic Norms of Danish Gymnasium Students
- Academic literacy in a bridge-building perspective (in Danish)
- CLIL across educational levels (in Danish)
- Developing Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in the Nordic/Baltic Context
- Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality
- German language learners’ cognition (in Danish)
- Learning Foreign Languages at an Early Age – A New Approach with Emphasis on Plurilingualism (in Danish)
- Spanish as a foreign language in Denmark. A needs analysis of the subject's further development in a bridge-building perspective (in Danish)
- Teachers' literacy in language testing and evaluation (in Danish)
- Teachers of German across educational levels – a needs analysis (in Danish)
- The Language Strategy – More Languages for More Students
- Transnational Alignment of English Competences for University Lecturers (TAEC)
Previous PhD projects
- Børne- og Undervisningsministeriet (BUVM)
- Consortium for language and subject matter didactics in primary and lower secondary school
- Council of Europe
- Danish Language Associations
- Dansk Universitetspædagogisk Netværk (DUN)
- Bias Aware Teaching and Learning (BATL)
- Teaching and Learning in the International Classroom (TLIC) - European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing
- European Centre for Modern Languages
- Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (ICLHE)
- Styrelsen for Integration og Rekruttering
- The Danish National Centre for Foreign Languages (NCFF)
- Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet (UFM)
- University College Absalon
- University College Copenhagen
- CLIL across educational levels (see padlet from the symposium)
- CLIL in Languages Other Than English – Successful Transitions across Educational Stages, funded by European Centre for Modern Languages
- Developing Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in the Nordic/Baltic Context
- Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality
- Learning Foreign Languages at an Early Age – A New Approach with Emphasis on Plurilingualism (in Danish)
- Plurilingual Education – Minority and Majority Students' Language Awareness across Educational Levels (in Danish)
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behnke, Lars | Teaching Associate Professor | ||
| Daryai-Hansen, Petra | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535334482 | |
| Dimova, Slobodanka | Professor | +4535328173 | |
| Flanagan, Marian | Associate Professor | ||
| Hartling, Simon | Teaching Associate Professor | +4535330026 | |
| Jensen, Christian | Associate Professor | +4535330019 | |
| Jespersen, Dea | PhD Fellow | +4535326624 | |
| Jäkel, Nils | Associate Professor | +4535334706 | |
| Kirkeby, Johanne | PhD Fellow | +4535323917 | |
| Larsen, Sanne | Assistant Professor - Tenure Track | +4535328448 | |
| Lindschouw, Jan Juhl | Associate Professor | +4535328432 | |
| Lund, Sonja Barfod | Postdoc | ||
| Milewczyk, Mechthild | Visiting Teacher | ||
| Morollon Marti, Natalia | Teaching Associate Professor | +4522212578 | |
| Mortensen, Janus | Professor | +4535334020 | |
| Olesen, Jonas Munck | PhD Fellow | +4535321192 | |
| Schimpff, Annika Milena | PhD Fellow | +4535326458 | |
| Skov, Marianne Haugaard | PhD Fellow | +4535325469 | |
| Strudsholm, Erling | Associate Professor | +4535328437 | |
| Søgaard, Karoline Emilie | PhD Fellow | ||
| Viala, Eric Louis Hippolyte | Teaching Associate Professor | +4535328898 | |
| Yessenova, Aisara | PhD Fellow | +4535325762 | |
| Zhang, Yao | PhD Fellow | +4535322235 |