JAANA KOLU

Associate Professor

Contact info

Organization

School of Humanities, Foreign Languages and Translation Studies

Email

jaana.kolu@uef.fi

Phone

+358 50 472 8276

Keywords

bilingualism code switching language contact languaging slang Tornedalen translanguaging youth language

Teaching Activities

I am currently mainly responsible for Master’s thesis supervision, Master’s Thesis Seminar and an in-depth course with a focus on the contemporary studies on Swedish language.

Societal Activities

Specialist professor member in the KARVI project, evaluation of A and B syllabus of Swedish in the 9th grade of basic education (Finnish Education Evaluation Centre)

Research groups and research projects

Currently, I have a research project that concentrates on academic writing and the university education of teachers (together with university lecturer and postdoctoral researcher Theresia Pettersson from Stockholm University): Respons som strategi. Formativ och dialogisk respons på blivande gymnasielärares texter vid en kurs i akademiskt skrivande.