I hold a position as full professor in The teaching and Learning of Swedish, and Reader in General linguistics. I lead the new research environment LiLL (Learning in Language and Literature), and I am also the subject representative for the subject Swedish.

Ongoing research projects include the MAW-funded project "Based on a true story?" (at Lund University, 2020–2025), which investigates how the exploration of language production processes in speech and writing can be used to distinguish between fictional and self-experienced stories, as well as the new VR-funded project "Will writing ever be the same? On AI, Writing Processes and Writing Practices in Secondary School", together with Eva Lindgren (main applicant, Umeå University), Åsa Wengelin (University of Gothenburg) and Carina Hermansson (University of Borås). A new project (together with Petra Magnussin and Jenny Persson, both at Kristianstad University) explores how teacher students self efficacy for writing relates to their own writing of academic texts. 

My research focuses on language production, language development and writing and is characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological interest.

Some recent research publications include an article that discusses and exemplifies how to measure cognitive effort in written language production and spoken language production, an article that investigates how linguistic background affects the writing processes in deaf and hard of hearing children, a methodological book chapter that describes how keystroke logging can be used to investigate L2 writing, another methodological book chapter that describes how keylogging can be combined with eye-tracking to investigate typing processes, and a methodological overview chapterof how writing can be examined with keylogging.

Doctoral supervision

I supervise several doctoral project:

Kajsa Gullberg (Lunds university) with the project ”Spoken and written processes in invented and experienced narratives”.

Mojtaba Sayyad Mahernia (Lunds university) with the project ”Functional Analysis of Meaning Generation During Writing”.

Kristina Lundgren (Kristianstad University) with a half-time licentiate project which focusses on teacher's reading aloud to children in primary school.

Previous doctoral supervision includes:

Håkan Johansson (Kristianstad University) with a dissertation project that examines linguistic practices on a construction site. (2022–2025). Dissertation planned for 2027.

Moa Gärdenfors (Stockholm University) with the dissertation “Writing in deaf and hard-of-hearing children. A bimodal bilingual perspective on their written products and writing processes” (Defended in Jan 2024).

Emily Grenner (Lund University) with the dissertation “Observational learning for narrative writing in elementary school. Text quality and self-efficacy in students with normal hearing and students with hearing loss” (Defended in Sep 2020).

Nele Põldvere (Lund University) with the dissertation ”What’s in a Dialogue? : On the dynamics of meaning-making in English Conversation” (Defended in Sep 2019)

I teach, supervise and examine courses within the Primary Teacher Education Programme, the Secondary Teacher Education Programme, the Preschool Teacher Programme, the Master's Programme and in Postgraduate Education. My teaching is often related to language learning, writing, speech and language development, text analysis, and research methods and theory.